How many people reading that headline do you think actually think of suicides when they read it? The reason for determining the deadliness of guns is to know w

How many people reading that headline do you think actually think of suicides when they read it? The reason for determining the deadliness of guns is to know whether they should be banned or not. And we're arguing that since suicides don't justify prohibition, it's not fair to include them in "deadliness". Suicides don't justify prohibition because I as a person should have the right to choose to own a gun at the small risk that I may commit suicide with it. It is not the governments place to protect me from that small risk. It seems as though advocates are arguing that the statistics should be filtered to make guns appear less statistically deadly. And the other side is doing the same thing, inflating the statistics with deaths that we believe should not affect the policy decision. gun deaths are trending upward Not according to the graph in the article: http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/images/print-edition/20150110_USC666.png http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac...