If the kid could have walked into any store in the state and legally purchased a gun (he was 27 with no record), then went home and blew his brains out with it, would we be seeing this story? I don’t think so. Therefore the only purpose in this story is to sway public opinion toward gun control/registration - to create the impression that doing something he could do with any gun is somehow really bad because he did it with an “unregistered” gun (note they are now using the term “registration” frequently instead of “control”). If that is the only purpose, why is Warren, less than one week after the suicide, deeming it so important that he needs to stress the unregistered/Internet connection? Talk amongst yourselves.
Gun or rope, about the same on the suicide lethality indexes.