Calls for Stricter Canadian Gun Owner Mental Health Screening

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

Canada –-(Ammoland.com)- In the wake of every mass shooting, the media-presented solution is always the same –– more restrictions on the people who did not commit the crime. That refrain is just as predictable as ours –– stop blaming the people who did not murder anyone!

Jeff Wilkinson, writing for DebateReport.com, did his best to turn an American mass murder into a call for greater Canadian firearm restrictions. Wilkinson cited statements by Iain Overton, research director for Britain’s Action on Armed Violence, as the rational for stricter mental health checks.

“I don’t think Canada should feel smug,” Overton said. “Between 2003 and 2012, over 5,500 Canadians shot and killed themselves. And this, I think, is something that really is lacking in the Canadian debate.”

What’s missing from Overton’s comment?

Full disclosure of Canadian suicide numbers by all methods. That gives a vastly different view of Canada’s suicide deaths.

Overton would have readers believe it’s a gun problem. It’s not. According to Statistics Canada, 44% of all suicide deaths are by hanging; 25% are by poison; and just 16% of all suicide deaths are from gunshot wounds.

Almost half of all Canadian suicides are death by hanging. Where is Overton’s call to ban ropes …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand