“…In addition, a second purpose is to assess whether the availability of firearms affects the frequency of their use in suicide and for homicide, and, if so, does this means, i.e., firearms, of suicide and homicide simply result in displacement of suicidal or homicidal intent to other means, with no overall reduction in the rates of suicide or homicide. & Lester, 1997;Lester, 2000) to heart, in the present study Lester and Leenaars' methods (1993) were used to examine the use of firearms for suicide in the 7-yr. period prior to Bill C-17 and in the 7-yr. period after the passage of this bill to assess whether the restrictions on firearms were associated with suicide rates. The data for the total rate of homicide and suicide, homicide and suicide by firearms, and homicide and suicide by all other methods were calculated by the author from Federal Government data (Hung, 2002, Table 15) ;Statistics Canada (2002) provided the raw data, and the rates were calculated by the author, except for the percentage of all suicides involving firearms and the percent-age of all homicidal deaths involving firearms (Hung, 2002, Population of Canada data).…”