Bear with me. The single biggest risk factor with guns is suicide. [View all]

Look, I know I've been on "the other side" of a lot of you for a while here, but I do believe in gun control. The 1934 NFA was very effective gun control legislation. We should look to it for examples.

The single biggest risk factor with gun ownership is suicide. I know there are posters here who can back that up better than I can, so I'll leave that to them. A lot of people on "my side" (as I think Arafat once said, "A lot of people on 'our side', aren't&quot think that should just be ignored, but I don't. It's a legitimate and undeniable public health problem.

I don't know what to do about that. If we eliminated every single gun homicide in the country, we would still have a gun death rate several standard deviations above the world mean. 2/3s of all people who die from a gun in the US die by their own hand. This isn't some corner case or issue that should be ignored, this is the clear majority of gun deaths. These are deaths that would not happen (or at least would happen at a much, much lower rate) without the ease of access to handguns that we have (and they are essentially all handguns, along with nearly all murders).

I want actual gun control that addresses the real problems we face, and the real problem is suicide. What are the options?