President says āepidemic of gun violence is tearing our communities apartā after mass shootings in Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Baltimore and Chicago
President says āepidemic of gun violence is tearing our communities apartā after mass shootings in Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Baltimore and Chicago
Itās just many of those deaths probably would have occurred anyways wether there is a gun ban or not.
There are lots of ways to commit suicide, guns are just convenient. Now some of those deaths probably wouldnāt have happened because they may be spur of the moment decisions in a dark period, but many still would have.
Not like the deaths of children who find their parents gun in the closet or the deaths of 5+ people in a grocery store with an automatic weapon.
While itās true that some of the people that kill themselves with a gun would find other ways, the majority wouldnāt. MOST suicides are spur of the moment, and having quick access to a deadly weapon makes those attempts far more successful. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-ownership-associated-with-much-higher-suicide-risk.html
Damn youāre cold. Thatās 21,782 peopleās lives weāll never get back. Just this year. And weāre going to sit here debating whether their life is worth including.
No empathy like conservative empathy.
These disingenuous folks will tell you these folks wouldāve killed themselves anyways, but they say nothing about the fact that most people kill themselves over financial or medical hardship while they shrink the social safety net to be just big enough to catch CEOs with golden parachutes.