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I am sure you all know better, and it sure is amusing to poke fun at the NY Times (one of the worst papers in my opinion), but there are non gun buyers who use guns to commit suicide. You don't have to buy a gun to get one. You could use a friend's or family members. You could steal one. And there have been a few documented cases where someone rented a gun at a gun range just to commit suicide with it.

For this to be useful science, the question that needs to be asked is what the time delay is and what the real numbers (not statistical percentages) are. Of first time gun buyers, how many did commit suicide with the gun in the first week, month, year, etc.? In other words, how many people go out and buy a gun just to commit suicide with it? Then they would need to show where the others got the gun too.

I am sure we could not do anything to stop it, but how often does it happen, and how soon after buying the gun. If we found a significant number did it within 24 hours after buying the gun, it might actually lend supprot to the idea of a waiting period. I still am against that, but I would like to see some scientific research into it.