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In reply to the discussion: Parents Blame Suicide on $10 Rented Gun [View all]clffrdjk
(905 posts)20. I am asking a serious question.
You are the one unable to come up with a simple logical answer. I am pretty sure that insults your own intellect.
You agreed that guns were the cause of this, I am simply asking how.
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The solution to the problem of nuclear weapons is obviously more and more nuclear weapons!
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#2
Guns make killing so easy-easy and as you point out, are easily transportable and concealable,
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#10
Umm, isn't Australia's suicide rate slightly *higher* than that of the United States?
benEzra
Aug 2015
#59
The gun was along for the ride whispering sweet nothings about how EASY it is use a gun to kill
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#14
Because your guns keep coming for us, we are coming for your guns. I kept it simple.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#24
Are you sure? Better go check, evidently they roam around when we're not looking???
ileus
Aug 2015
#64
Did I leave the safe open again? Jesus, these things are like herding cats, I swear.
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2015
#41
In my small collection I have both a French musket and a Continental built musket
oneshooter
Aug 2015
#65
So, the only thing I think the range did wrong, was, they allowed her to steal the gun.
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2015
#3
I blame a lot of murders on irresponsible gun laws, but suicides are different
lostnfound
Jul 2015
#4
the suicide issue is not a gun issue, it's a mental health issue primarily.
the band leader
Jul 2015
#45
You can't run away from a bullet and the gun is designed to kill, so it is SO much easier and
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#13
So what you are saying is that when she committed suicide she actually wanted to die and it was not
clffrdjk
Jul 2015
#21
Sorry, I ran out of crayons just now and can not help you any further with your education today.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#22
Damn it must suck holding a position that you can't support with even just one logical answer.
clffrdjk
Jul 2015
#25
Thats hardly an argument that applies to people that choose to run into a bullet.
beevul
Jul 2015
#44
"I am unsure why this concept still perplexes some in our society."
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#49
Logic is something the law respects much more than gun lovers and NRA BizzaroWorld "logic".
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#34
Assisting people who are suicidal, regardless of their preferred means of action,
branford
Jul 2015
#51