• Kalkaline @leminal.space
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    1 year ago

    Mass shootings make up a tiny albeit horrific number of gun injuries and deaths. Suicide is the top spot, domestic assault and other crimes are next, followed by accidents/negligent discharge, and way down at the bottom of the list is mass shooting. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ we need to focus on the whole issue. One thing is clear though, more guns is not the answer.

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        1 year ago

        Guns are very effective at killing, something like 5% of people attempting suicide by gun are unsuccessful. Other methods have a much higher rate of survival. Taking the guns out of the equation means more lives saved.

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          Taking the guns out of the equation means more lives saved.

          May mean more lives saved, even if it were feasible.

          Alternatively, addressing the suicide motivations and pressures addresses all means of suicide - not just those by firearm.

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          Or perhaps improving the conditions that leads to most suicidal tendencies. Access to healthcare, mental health care, livable wages, housing, etc. Not addressing these issues is social murder.

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            You’ll excuse me if I don’t hold my breath waiting on Republicans and centerist Democrats to deliver on those items.

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              And yet you believe they’ll deliver on making firearms go away? Is it more or less likely, in your estimation?

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      So that answer to suicide by guns would be to make people not want to kill themselves so much, maybe by making a less desperate world to live in, such as by ending capitalism – but you instead just want to make a statistic not look as bad by making suicide less efficient?

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        1 year ago

        You’re being obtuse and not making a good faith argument so I refuse to give a substantive response.

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          They’re highlighting the glaring flaw to your symptom-focused measures and the risks of clutching pearls about a specific subset yet they’re not making good faith arguments? Lol.