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[–] HowieCameUnglued 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Gun control affects suicide rates, but has no statistical significance on reducing firearm-related homicides:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7287.2009.00165.x/abstract
http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/47/3/455
http://tech.mit.edu/V114/N1/chung.01o.html
http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/critical_issues/1995/gun/

Even the CDC acknowledges there's a lack of evidence supporting the effectiveness of gun control in preventing crime:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5214a2.htm

While preventing suicide is certainly a noble goal, and gun control does have a significant effect reducing suicide, that's not what it's being sold as. Gun control is less effective at stopping crime than the TSA is at stopping airline terrorism. Both have the same net effect of making people feel safer.