> There are twice as many suicides as homicides in this country I think it's a mistake to consider suicide as outside the gun-death problem. I think they shoul

> There are twice as many suicides as homicides in this country I think it's a mistake to consider suicide as outside the gun-death problem. I think they should be considered within the continuum of a single problem. Furthermore, the percentage of shots fired causing death in a suicide situation is far higher than a homicide situation. So you can argue that more violence (and injury) occurs when people square off against each other with guns. And I also don't think it's reasonable to compare our gun-death problem with non-OECD nations.