I know why they don't take comments in this newspaper

If anyone wants to write a guest column for a newspaper, here's the article to respond to. The author tries to tug at our heartstrings by talking first about teen suicide. Then she switches quickly to suicide in general

Although most handgun owners keep their firearms for protection, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention reports 83 percent of gun-related deaths in those homes are suicides, most committed by a family member or friend of the gun's owner. So as we drift farther from the holidays, it's not too late for firearm owners to consider giving the gift of increased safety by carefully storing their firearms locked, unloaded, and separate from ammunition. Or they may take a protective move and get their guns out of the house altogether, since a 1991 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the presence of a firearm, no matter how safely stored, increases the likelihood of a suicide attempt in that home.

Maybe those evil mind rays that the gun gives off are causing these suicides.

Deanna L LaMotte is a master's of public health candidate at UNC's Gillings School of Global Health.

Oh, that explains it. Another overeducated fool who thinks she's smarter than everyone else. She thinks that she's in a position to tell everyone else how to live. Too bad for her we've already seen that there are very few gun related suicides in teens in North Carolina or in the US as a whole. Suicide is an older white male problem. Not that a Master's Candidate in Public Health would want to address the root causes of suicide. She just wants to take away the guns.

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