As a reference that supports the argument:
Data from Switzerland (scientific study) - a country that has the
highest rate of suicides involving guns together with the United States,
and about the same goes for homicides:
For Switzerland this means one person per day committing suicide with a
firearm, usually a military weapon.
Small wonder: Under Swiss law all able-bodied men are issued with a
rifle and 50 rounds of ammunition which they can keep after completing
their compulsory military service.
This is on some 7 million people.
See
http://www.nzz.ch/2006/09/11/eng/article7051323.html
http://www.nzz.ch/2006/09/11/eng/article7051323.html
http://www.nzz.ch/2006/12/16/eng/article7357024.html
HTH
Marc
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