"Other methods are not as lethal," said Jon Vernick, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore.
You hear that, Ruslana?
How about you folks?
Still, if we're going to begin applying "gun control" as a preventive measure in this country, we may as well begin where the problem is most acute.
Every few months, someone drives HALFWAY across the tallest bridge in the area. No survivors.
ReplyDeleteOr halfway across an interstate overpass. No survivors.
Or halfway across train tracks. Few survivors who could really be called that.
Our gun rights do not and shall not depend on the minority's misuse of them.
Nobody has any right to determine for another person how or how long they will live. Thus, what they use or how, unless it harms another person, is irrelevant.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'd far rather see them use a method that doesn't subject their family and neighbors to blood and guts, but that is not my determination to make either.
Suicide by auto seems to present a much greater opportunity to harm innocent bystanders.
As a hospice nurse for 14 years, I dealt with a lot of people who either talked about or planned suicide. Not once was a gun even mentioned.
When the time comes, if I choose to end my own life with my gun, that is my choice and no one else's. To take that choice from me is evil.
ReplyDeletePreventing someone from offing themselves is ... evil?
ReplyDeleteWow, you learn something new every frickin day.
If you do not own your own life, then you own nothing and have no rights. If you do own your own life, then no one may decide how you must live it. And, yes, trying to run someone else's life IS evil. You may try to talk them out of ending their life, and you should try, but ultimately the decision is not yours, but theirs.
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