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Comment author: DanielLC 18 October 2014 05:26:42PM 2 points [-]

Replace "suicidal" with "suicidally depressed" and I'll agree.

Depression isn't always chronic, and when it is, you aren't depressed the whole time. It doesn't seem clear to me if a depressed person committing suicide is on average a net loss or a net gain.

I suppose I should have made my position more clear in my earlier comment, and said that that could just as well be a cost to gun control.