• Monkstrosity@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Kinda hard to convince people suicide is caused by owning a firearm and not, you know, the reasons they committed suicide. Once again pointing societal issues as simply “not enough restrictions”, assuming that’ll fix anything. Waste of time.

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      1 year ago

      People always say it’s about metal problems and not guns. And that might be true, but will you Americans ever try and fix that? Maybe by reducing healthcare prices or something.

      So far it seems like the answer is: No, we won’t do anything about it.

      At very least it makes sense to force parents to keep their guns locked away from their children and everyone else.

      No-one under 18 should ever be allowed non supervised access to weapons and everyone over should have to take a mandatory safety and usage course and of course a comprehensive background check.

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        1 year ago

        These are all things having little to do with suicide: Japan completely disarmed everyone outside of government in the 90’s, and they have better access to healthcare than Americans, but suicide rates only grew. Attention needs to be on root causes, like the explosive rise in loneliness and identifying how to repair some of the social changes brought on by a complete paradigm shift to how humans share information and interact with one another.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not the root cause, but I’m sure having easy access to a gun seems a lot quicker and cleaner than, for example, hanging yourself. I know a lot of people who probably wouldn’t be around right now if their folks kept guns in the house.

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        1 year ago

        The path of least resistance from thought to action is very important. I wouldn’t actually know of an easy way if I wanted to kill myself right now. Having a gun in my drawer could easily make a bad day into a final day.

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          1 year ago

          I mean… Alterative would be to have proper social policy where less peopleare pushed to killself…

          Can’t so that tho in America ;)