Again, there is no evidence whatsoever to substantiate this assertion. When such peaks subsided, they obviously did so as a result of other factors, without the help of gun laws. Clearly they have not. Figure 5 shows suicide by firearm in a falling trend since well before the introduction of the restrictive late 1980s and early 1990s firearms legislation. The study does no such thing, as was demonstrated in the Australian Shooters Journal of March, 1996.
Suicide is a self-inflicted choice.
The self is the victim. No other person is responsible. Personal responsibility and accountability for one's actions must prevail. No amount of firearm education and training, registration and restriction or licensing of people will prevent them from killing themselves if that is what they are determined to do. Rather than blaming firearms, which currently account for one in six suicides, the community needs to direct effort towards remedying the circumstances which drive a person to suicide.