• PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Only 1 in 10 people who survive a suicide attempt go on to die by suicide. The number is much the same the world over, regardless of method.

    Very few people survive putting a gun in their mouth and pulling the trigger.

    There is a record high number of children doing exactly that with their father’s guns. I wonder how many of those fathers claimed the gun was to “keep their family safe”? I wonder how many of them taught their children how to load and fire the round that killed them?

    There’s actual lives behind those numbers.

    • jcarax@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      The argument is, gun control treats the symptom and not the cause. Personally, I’m mixed on it. I definitely think we should be severely limiting access to automatic weapons, and others along those lines. But too much control over legitimate hunting weapons is an attack on a lifestyle, and I absolutely see the need for handguns now that I live in an area with very large predators.

      Instead, I feel we’d be much better off attacking the social injustice that leads people to feel so helpless and lost.