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Most Firearm Deaths in America Involve Suicide, not Bad Guys With Guns
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White men in small towns are most at risk. When we talk about gun violence in the U.S., we usually look at homicides, at urban crime and mass shootings. But two-thirds of gun deaths in America don’t involve bad guys with guns. They’re caused by suicide, by people deliberately harming themselves. Even many pro-gun activists say that has to change. |
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PHORTO
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Immaterial. One of my closest friends lost a battle with alcoholism when he couldn't get his hands on a gun and hanged himself instead.
You cannot burden the rights of the vast majority of people for the relatively few that are at risk. |
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| For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution. [Bliss vs. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822) |
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