No, we don't forget, we reject and dismiss your lame, recondite arguments as the specious nonsense they are.Blind groper wrote:Sadly this thread has now got to the stage where I am repeating the same thing the third or fourth time. People forget what has been said.PordFrefect wrote:Great? How is a drop in suicide rate a good thing, nevermind an argument against guns?
No you don't. You lie. You are spouting this bombastic nonsense while utterly refusing to look at the cost in human lives and misery that would be caused by disarming the public in America. Up to two million more criminal victimizations and who knows how many more murders if your idiotic arguments are accepted, all yto theoretically (not provably) reduce the chances that a tiny fraction of the population who want to end their lives will have a more difficult time doing so.Suicides are usually impulsive and attempts that are survived mostly are not repeated. People who are depressed, leading to suicide attempts, recover and live long and reasonably happy lives. Personally, I believe that human lives matter, and people should, where possible, be given the chance to survive.
I say it's not worth the denigration of our civil liberties and that an armed citzenry has so many positive benefits to our society, from keeping the peace to preventing crime to constraining our elected officials, that it would be sheer stupidity to ban handguns or any other types of firearms in the US. We'd all end up as helpless sheeple like you, and that's not on my agenda, sorry.
The suicides will just have to fend for themselves and take the risk that their selection of a handgun for the method will be, as they wish and have every right to demand, 95% effective.
