Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
C. D. Tavares writes:
Go check out the effect of your lovely gun controls on your suicide rate. Suicide by gun went down. Suicide by other means went up precisely enough to compensate.
Not true. See Am J Psychiatry 151:4 606-608 (1994).
Abstract: " To assess the impact of the 1978 Canadian gun control law on suicide rates in Ontario, the authors compared firearm and non-firearm suicide rates for 1965-1977 with those for 1979-1989. There was a decrease in level and trend over time of firearm and total suicide rates and no indication of substitution of other methods. These decreases may be only partly due to the legislation."
