10-25-2017, 10:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-25-2017, 10:01 AM by David Horn.)
(10-25-2017, 01:47 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(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.
I think Stephen's point has more to do with Sanctity of Guns we wrapped around this issue. By making it a right, rather than a privilege, we pretend that having guns is the moral equivalent of the many freedoms found in the other 9 amendments we call the Bill of Rights. We need some oversight, but seem unable to get any. And to your point that suicides will happen regardless, most failed suicides never try again. Attempts by firearm tend to be deadly on the first try.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.