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Gun Control & RKBA

ManiacJoe

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4. Given that the majority are/will-be suicides,

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 07:00 PM

Jan 2020

proper secured storage goes a long way to solving that problem.

Criminals doing criminal things is a separate problem with separate solutions.

Negligence and "accidents" is a third problem with separate solutions.

Unfortunately for the doctors, none of these problems lend themselves to a medical solution.

Otherwise, context is everything and is missing.

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'1 Million Americans Will Be Shot in the Next Decade' [View all] Cattledog Jan 2020 OP

its what gun owners allow. whats a million corpses compared to their 2A "rights" nt msongs Jan 2020 #1

300,000, of which 200,000 would be suicides krispos42 Jan 2020 #6

Can you put that number into some sort of context? hack89 Jan 2020 #2

Ah, Freedom JDC Jan 2020 #3

Given that the majority are/will-be suicides, ManiacJoe Jan 2020 #4

Great point nearly 2/3. Hope we can increase the number of doctors & programs who/that can help. jmg257 Jan 2020 #5

Gun grabbers don't need "context" The Mouth Jan 2020 #7

Real data discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2020 #8

Information I get from the video discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2020 #9