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by Lee

A couple of readers sent me in this great link.  You know the old liberal sawhorse, that if we just banned guns it would cut down on teen suicide?  Well, you better start banning rope and other household items.

A new report finds that suicidal young people are less likely to use firearms to take their own lives, but the survey finds little comfort in the trend because they are turning to more readily available methods.

In the last decade, suffocation—notably hanging—has overtaken firearms as the most common way for adolescents to kill themselves, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

The greatest change was among youngsters between 10 and 14 years old, where suicide by suffocation occurred twice as frequently as suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot. Firearms were the most common method before 1997, the report found.

Among those 15 to 19 years of age, however, suffocation suicides also increased, but firearms remained the method of choice in 2001.

Guns don’t kill teenagers, rope kills teenagers!  It’s another gun control success!

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