So. We are paranoid to worry about them confiscating our guns, are we?

[khagler]

Rev Dark wrote:

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Suicide rates depend on cultural factors that really have nothing to do
with the means available to commit suicide with. For example, Japan
(where they go for the bridge-and-train method) has a much higher
suicide rate than the US, Canada is about the same as the US, and Mexico
is much lower than the US.

Bullshit.  Suicide is often a decision contemplated at a low; and the convenience of a ready mechanism for such encourages acting on that decision immediately.  Death by gas in Britain being a text book example.  As coal gas was phased out and replaced by natural gas, suicide by coal gas (highly convenient - the classic head in the oven) fell to zero; and overall suicides were reduced by a third.

And has been going back up again for years (it's currently about the same as the US and Canada. I guess British people actually aren't too stupid to find other ways to kill themselves if they can't use their ovens. (Incidentally, British disarmament is actually fairly recent--back when that coal gas was common, guns were too. Some grad student could probably get a study out of looking at British people gassing themselves versus shooting themselves.)
It's hardly any secret that the way people choose to kill themselves shifts depending on what they have to work with. People used to shoot themselves in Canada too, but as the government there has gotten more oppressive they've shifted to things like hanging.