Suicide is a mental illness. You cannot peg a suicide to any one object.  If there were no guns in the world, people who are determined to kill themselves would do so with other means. History have shown that to be true. Favorite method of suicide have often been the rope in the olden days......did we banned rope back then?? Firearms is just a mean of ease. Not an enabler. If you called an inanimate object an "enabler", what do you called family members or friends who missed or dismissed all that signs?? If you don't own a gun, there are thousands of other way to do yourself in.

Guns really have nothing to do with suicide. No more then a rope, knife, or a fast moving train. It just a way to a mean. To prevent a suicide is to prevent the act and that is where mental health professionals around the nation must do a better job, with better laws and more alert family members and friends.