Geriatric suicide helps a bit with Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare but apparently not very many depressed geriatrics use them.
I'm an advocate of gun profligacy myself and believe that every good citizen should have a few at home and a concealed carry permit(where needed).
Guns are good and more guns are better.
American exceptionalism is broadcast universally to the jealous people of the world by our highest per capita gun ownership statistics. Only the freedom fighters in North Waziristan carry more guns than Americans.
The idea that there is more violence when you put more instruments of violence in the hands of people is simplistic nonsense. Guns are not instruments of violence. It's really the trigger finger of the right hand we should be thinking of licensing.
If we had to register our right forefinger we might get this perceived problem a bit more under control.
Guns are good and more guns are better.
The most armed people are the freest and the most armed people are most aware of the fact that the more people who are armed the more you need to arm yourself
I favor the government subsidizing ammunition, and I think targetry and gun etiquette should be taught in the primary schools.
In a few years when 3D printers become inexpensive I am looking forward to the day when free men and women and the occasional violent miscreant is able to print up a Mauser or a Colt or a Remington and blow something or somebody to kingdom come.
A free people needs as many weapons as humanly possible.
Guns make America a whole lot better.