> Of course, the flip side of this is "If you're horribly depressed in your house, which would you rather have, a handgun or a telephone."

Not much a flip side. Unless you happen to think that suicides by other means are somehow better.

>> The evidence, however, indicates that denying one particular means to people who are motivated to commit suicide by social, economic, cultural, or other circumstances simply pushes them to some other means.[1]

[1] Same PDF as in the next comment http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_Kate...