RE: Guns and suicide
August 8, 2019 at 7:16 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2019 at 7:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Depends on how oblique we’re going with the question.
I don’t think so. While suicide is a terrible occurrence, I don’t think that our best efforts (and considerable political capital required) should be wasted on keeping people who want to die alive.
Children, maybe...but since kids “can’t” get guns cap laws and enforcement of their existing analogs would seem a better target to cut down on suicides, school shootings, accidents involving children, people mistakenly shooting their so in a perceived home invasion, etc.
Focus on the ones that want to live, and the ones who can’t be given leeway to make such decisions for themselves, first. I know, two things at once.....still....we might really need to take this in baby steps considering how poor our efforts to date have been.
I don’t think so. While suicide is a terrible occurrence, I don’t think that our best efforts (and considerable political capital required) should be wasted on keeping people who want to die alive.
Children, maybe...but since kids “can’t” get guns cap laws and enforcement of their existing analogs would seem a better target to cut down on suicides, school shootings, accidents involving children, people mistakenly shooting their so in a perceived home invasion, etc.
Focus on the ones that want to live, and the ones who can’t be given leeway to make such decisions for themselves, first. I know, two things at once.....still....we might really need to take this in baby steps considering how poor our efforts to date have been.
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