10-25-2017, 01:47 AM
(10-24-2017, 11:51 AM)David Horn Wrote: Yes: the infamous proof by anecdote. Ask a combat vet about the highest risk times he or she served, and one will very likely be the first time they came under fire. Still, some successes do occur. So do suicides. Here's a recent column by a conservative writer who cited that as one reason he opposes the 2nd Amendment.I don't believe eliminating the 2nd Amendment would significantly reduce the amount of suicides. I don't believe it would have much, if any impact on the amount of suicide deaths. People who really want to kill themselves will kill themselves one way or another even if there isn't a gun around to do it wit . I don't know anyone who killed themselves with a gun. Every person that I knew who killed themselves, killed themselves without one. I actually knew quite a few of them (at least 20 or more since graduating from high school). Keep in mind, I went to school with thousands of kids who were about the same age as me.