Tax Guns to Cut Suicides

Implement a national tax on firearm purchases and ownership as a public‑health instrument to reduce the prevalence of guns, thereby lowering suicide rates, accidental shootings, and the pool of handguns that leak into illicit markets. Pairing such taxes with a firearms registry and owner liability would target the baseline drivers of gun deaths rather than focusing solely on rare mass‑shooting bans. — Shifting attention to demand‑side, fiscal tools reframes gun policy from symbolic weapon bans to population‑level harm reduction with measurable health and crime impacts.