There's scientific consensus on guns -- and the NRA won't like it

[SheilaT]

1. Just last night I had a conversation with a friend of mine

who was suicidal when he was in his late teens. He went home from school one day, got his dad's 357 magnum and held it to his head. He then decided he didn't want his dad to find his body, and put it down. Had he not thought about his dad at that moment, he would have pulled the trigger.

I get very angry at all those who proclaim guns make us safer. They don't. The statistics on the damage guns do (and I'm not even referring to the police use of them) is just hideous. There are those here who claim that because gun deaths have apparently decreased in this country, it's perfectly okay that however many people kill themselves or others every year.

I am in favor of actual gun confiscation.