I didn't say that suicide and murder are not violence. Given the context of your original statement, saying "tendency toward violence" is a clear implication that you believe gun owners are more likely to COMMIT violence. The study does not support that conclusion. The study found that people who owned guns were more likely to be on the RECEIVING end of violence, whether self-inflicted or otherwise.

Furthermore, the correlation between gun ownership and violence is not necessarily causal, a point that you completely failed to address. If I live in a bad neighborhood with a high crime rate, and am therefore more likely to be the victim of murder, I'm going to be more inclined to want to arm myself. Saying that gun ownership is higher because of increased risk of murder is just as valid as your claim that murder is higher because people owned guns. Likewise with suicide, you're implying that owning a gun makes a person more likely to kill himself. It's just as valid to argue that a person who wants to kill himself is more likely to buy a gun than someone who doesn't.

If critical thinking is what you want, why don't you try it, and actually attempt to refute my points, instead of resorting to ad hominem.

That is just especially toxic, do you lack human empathy? Sidenote: You are encouraging the mentally ill to "Just Do It" because you like yer gunz. Am I supposed to take you seriously?

I have lots of empathy. I feel for people who have lost family members to suicide, and I feel for those tormented people who believed that was their only way out. However, I don't think that their choice to end their life is a valid justification for restricting anyone else's freedoms. Is it tragic? Absolutely. But how does that give anyone the right to govern the actions of others? I'm not encouraging anyone to do anything. I'm saying that one person's desire to hurt themselves does not give you the right to tell me what I can and can't buy.