The amount of freedom you'd have to take from society is huge.
Perhaps there is also a right to die. If life is torture, and you keep a person alive, then you are torturing them.
Arguing that children "Have a right to die"? This is not something I agree with.
Obviously banning all that other stuff would be ridiculous and no one is proposing that. There is not much freedom lost by keeping gins out of the hands of children though...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_police_office...
Statistics are hard when you're really trying to make an argument and discussion of what gets included is very important.
The main way to reduce deaths by suicide is to restrict access to means and methods, especially those which have high lethality. Guns are 1) very lethal 2) irresponsibly stored in many US homes. It's a valid suicide prevention measure to tell people to store their guns correctly.
Here's the link to the CDC, clearly showing they see suicide as violence: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/datasources/nvdrs/ind...
> In the United States, seven people per hour die a violent death. More than 19,000 people were victims of homicide and almost 45,000 people died by suicide in 2016 alone.
> To help find ways to prevent violent deaths, we need to know the facts. The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) links information about the “who, when, where, and how” from data on violent deaths and provides insights about “why” they occurred.
> NVDRS is the only state-based surveillance (reporting) system that pools more than 600 unique data elements from multiple sources into a usable, anonymous database. NVDRS covers all types of violent deaths – including homicides and suicides – in all settings for all age groups.
> Of these children, 61 percent were killed in an assault involving a firearm, while 32 percent died by suicide. A further 5 percent died in an accident. The death was undetermined in 2 percent of cases.
It seems misleading to me to include suicide counts in a headline that says “shot dead”.
Removing suicides, this comes out to 1625 per year. Approximately 900,000 people in total die in the US per year.
What they are describing as an epidemic is in reality 340 deaths per year of under-14s.
For reference, approximately 450 people per year die of acetaminophen (tylenol) poisoning in the US.