The author's criticism of other analysis have some merit, though his chief complaint is that the others include suicide and accidental death. But isn't his poin

The author's criticism of other analysis have some merit, though his chief complaint is that the others include suicide and accidental death. But isn't his point that you shouldn't selectively exclude contrary data? Since those who die by accident or suicide are just as dead, it's hard to argue for their exclusion except as another way of "lying" about the relationship between gun ownership and death by firearm.