Re:More Children Were Shot Dead in 2017 Than On-Duty Police ...
by frankbreetz on Sunday March 24, 2019 @04:51PM
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Why would we remove suicide? If these children didn't have access to guns the majority of these CHILDREN would still be alive today. Everyone deserve the chance to make foolish mistakes as a child.
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Re:More Children Were Shot Dead in 2017 Than On-Duty Police ...
by burfog on Sunday March 24, 2019 @07:03PM
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Suicide deaths by children don't change unless you also ban train tracks, highways, ropes, tall things... and maybe just store people in padded boxes until they are not children.
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.
Re:More Children Were Shot Dead in 2017 Than On-Duty Police ...
by frankbreetz on Monday March 25, 2019 @10:58AM
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"Research shows that whether attempters live or die depends in large part on the ready availability of highly lethal means, especially firearms."
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/
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...