Blind groper wrote:Hand guns and suicide is a very different situation.
No it's not.
With smoking, the sucker is engaged on a multi-decade process of self immolation.
Just means he's determined to die. He'd be far better off, and so would everybody else, if he just blew his brains out right away. It would save us all a lot of medical expenses and wasted effort.
With hand guns and suicide, researchers have found that a person who is depressed will enter a temporary and short term impulse to killing him/herself.
Easy for "researchers" to say, not being morbidly despondent.
If no easy means is available, they will survive.
Horse + shit.
If a hand gun is present, they will die.
That's their right.
There are 220, 000 attempts at suicide each year in the USA and only about 20, 000 succeed.
Damn, we need more guns.
There are probably ten times as many suicide impulses (over 2 million). So only 1 impulse in 100 results in death, except where a hand gun is available. In that situation, according to the New England Journal of Medicine, the incidence of fatality increases 2 to 10 fold (depending on how securely the gun is stored).
Not my problem. Not anybody's problem but the suicidal person's. It's their life and they get to end it if they want to. I prefer they end it quickly and completely, as opposed to futzing it all up and ending up in a coma that we have to pay to maintain.
Who the fuck are you, or the NEJM, to interfere in the free choice of the individual to end his or her life?
Mind your own fucking business, Mr. Nosy Parker.
In other words, suicide by fag requires decades of effort. Suicide by hand gun requires a quick and temporary impulse combined with the act of an irresponsible asshole who leaves a gun where it can be used for suicide.
Having said that, let me make it clear that I am, if anything, even more opposed to smoking than I am to owning hand guns.
In the world of evil corporations, I put tobacco companies and gun manufacturers at the top, equal in sheer evilness with heroin and methamphetamine and cocaine makers.[/quote]
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