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CreativeDominant -> RE: The continuing war on poor little gun owners... (2/19/2015 12:50:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u
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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u
We shall see what happens when some disaffected depressed freshman eats her own gun that mom and dad thought would keep her safe from rape.
Talk about a law of unintended consequences ......That's a guilt that will haunt and haunt a family till it tears them apart.
So, it's your belief that all these depressed students won't commit suicide if they don't have a gun?
In the college population, however, the most frequent methods are hanging and jumping.
http://cms.bsu.edu/campuslife/counselingcenter/newsfooteritems/dealingwithstressdepressionanxietysuicideandtraumaticevents/suicide/commonquestionsandanswersaboutsuicide
Given that there are an estimated 1350 suicides among all college students, that's a lot of jumping and hanging. Do you really think that giving someone a gun will encourage them to kill themselves? Because it seems as if those who want to WILL find a way.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/small-steps/201002/whose-life-is-anyway-when-college-students-kill-themselves
So jumping and hanging are the CURRENT methods of choice...now let's add guns to the mix and see how that changes.
Of course for the most part females choose any method other than guns to commit suicide(it's supposedly a vanity thing) but if you open up campus's to weapons it won't just be females that have them will it ?
The other thing is that there is no surer method of suicide than a firearm,jumps are sometime survive,folks change their mind when they contemplate that long final step.Suicide by pill can be survived if medical help arrives in time...though often with horrendous results going forward for the attemptee ....firearms on the other hand are usually definative in their finality.
But by all means CD give the young folks another tool at their disposal in order to commit this final last act.
By the way,the article does address the fact that most campus rapes begin with some consensual sexual activity,than turn bad when one party(usually the female) changes their mind....where has the gun been hidden that can come out in time to avert this heinous act ?
Also alcohol is usually present in these situations....sound like a good idea to you,a bunch of inebriated young kids,add sex to the mix sprinkle with firearms.
That's going to work out nice.....do any of you read a story before attacking the story?
I do. Here's an idea...how about we make the campus police enforce the alcohol laws? Make liquor store owners responsible for checking IDs of their customers? I mean, campuses do have to follow the alcohol laws, don't they? How about we make the sale of anything they could hang themselves with...belts, shoelaces, bedsheets, rope, clothing...illegal? How about we find a way to bar access to any place high enough to jump from?
Now then, which of the above seems most down to earth to you?
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