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Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp
Suicides will happen regardless if guns are legal, that will always exist. You fight suicides through prevention with mental health resources.
If we suspect someone is suicidal and they have guns, there's a hotline to call.
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There will most certainly be a substitution affect and data is murky onto whether or not fewer guns leads to fewer suicides.
Your conclusion is still fundamentally wrong. A hand gun ban will certainly save lives. There is sufficient evidence for that. You might want to argue that the loss of liberty and enjoyment of legal users is worth the numbers of lives lost. Or you could argue that money could be better spent elsewhere and could save more lives elsewhere. However a handgun ban will reduce gun deaths in Canada.