Here’s one of the most ridiculous opinion columns I have ever read. Reno Berkeley writes:
In less than one year, my family has been hit by three suicides. The most recent one came just days ago and my family is still reeling from it. Three suicides, three different, beautiful people. And they all had one thing in common: they ended their lives with guns.
All three lived in Texas, a state with notoriously lax gun laws. No matter how many people die, though, the state remians stubbornly pro-gun.
Source: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/17193102-tighter-gun-laws-could-decrease-gun-related-suicides-opinion
This guy has a f-cked up family and he worries about the guns, really? Are we to assume there are no gun suicides in Chicago, New York City and DC?
Right-wing lackey “Joe the Plumber” summed up the gruesome mentality perfectly: “Your dead kids don’t trump my constitutional rights.”
No matter how many dead children, whether grown or young, Second Amendment fanatics resist any kind of gun reform.
You’re right, and no matter how many terrorists are inspired by “The Turner Diaries,” I’m still going to support free speech. Does that make me a First Amendment fanatic or a patriot that honors the wishes of the founding fathers? I think the later.
Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. All told, 38,364 people killed themselves in 2010. The vast majority of the people chose to end their lives with guns— a whopping 19,392 total for accountable suicide deaths that year.
Funny how pro-choice people are often anti-suicide, unless it’s euthanasia. What hypocrites. Killing babies? OK. Killing yourself with a gun? Not OK. Killing yourself in a nice hospital? Just peachy.
Her ex, on the other hand, had a history of bipolar and schizophrenia. She said,
“If a mental health check had been run he should never have passed it to obtain a firearm in the first place.” He had tried other methods to kill himself before, but failed. With a gun, he succeeded.
Unless he had been confined to a mental institution, he wouldn’t have had a history of anything under the law. Furthermore, how exactly are you gonna do a mental check? You’re going to ask people if they’re going to buy the gun to commit suicide? OK, let’s say you did that, what’s going to stop them from lying?
In Northwestern Washington State, the Ellington Bridge was known as the “suicide bridge” because of its high suicide rate. Officials erected a suicide barrier to prevent more people from jumping to their deaths. Five years later, a study concluded the suicide rate drop by 50 percent, “the amount that typically jumped from the Ellington Bridge.”
Great, are we also going to put barriers on every cliff as well? I’m sure the jumpers will go elsewhere.
Like Hines, other people who tried to kill themselves realized at the last moment that they wanted to live. They just wanted the pain to be gone. Because guns are responsible for the vast majority of intentional deaths in the United States, stronger regulations on access could possibly prevent people from taking their lives, or even delay their attempts long enough for them to get help. With guns, there often is no second chance. There is no “What am I doing?” moment. There is no, “I really do want to live moment.”
What a stupid argument, so because some people are f-cked up the rest of us should suffer? Why not ban booze since some people like to drink themselves to death? Why not ban knives since cutting your wrists is popular? Outlaw every brand of sleeping pills, that is popular suicide method after all.
So, while there are some people in the world who cannot be saved in any way, better gun control could still have a huge impact on the number of suicides every year. It is small consolation to my family members who lost three amazing people, but if gun advocates stopped resisting reasonable regulations on ownership then many senseless suicides could be averted.
You know something? Some people aren’t worth saving, some people are better off dead. I will never cry tears for self-murderers, if you want to kill yourself, that’s your business, but don’t mess with my rights.