Posted by bleauberry on January 15, 2010, at 16:16:26
In reply to DON'T BUY A GUN!!!, posted by detroitpistons on January 14, 2010, at 18:43:51
I'm really sorry to hear of this suicide. I've personally known two suicides, one of which I didn't recognize just days before it happened.
There are complex issues involved with those final hours, as is true in this case. Alcohol was worse than the gun, in my mind. The gun was just an inanimate harmless object without the alcohol's mind-twisting.
Just for clarification, it is a proven fact that suicides, crimes, thefts, and murders are significantly lower in areas where there is a high level of gun ownership. In areas where there are few guns, suicides, crimes, thefts, and murders skyrocket. Gun ownership tends to ward off chaos and evil, as the founding fathers knew. A murder is less likely to happen when the potential murderer knows his target also has a loaded gun.
This is all kind of backwards from our first instinctual response, but it is statistical fact.
I wish I could go back and have a second try at preventing a suicide. He did it with a rope.
If someone is going to do it, it doesn't matter if they have a gun or not. The absence of a gun is not going to slow them down. They are going to do it. It isn't that hard. All one needs is a car, a rope, a bottle of pills, an electrical outlet.
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