"I was not aware that a gun was involved in this suicide ... ??"

It wasn't, the girl hanged herself.

My point was that far more suicides could be prevented by passing sane gun control laws (firearms the most prevalent method for committing suicide in the US--just over 50% of all successful suicides involve firearms), than going on internet witch hunts, and demanding laws be changed out of a desire for vengeance.

That's what gave us the Patriot Act, after all.

The authorities were able to quickly trace the MySpace account, which was in the mother's name. However, she apparently wasn't the person doing the nasty--it was her daughter and an "employee" of their family home business who was 18 years old at the time, who were guilty of logging the messages.