Or perhaps improving the conditions that leads to most suicidal tendencies. Access to healthcare, mental health care, livable wages, housing, etc. Not addressing these issues is social murder.
So that answer to suicide by guns would be to make people not want to kill themselves so much, maybe by making a less desperate world to live in, such as by ending capitalism – but you instead just want to make a statistic not look as bad by making suicide less efficient?
They’re highlighting the glaring flaw to your symptom-focused measures and the risks of clutching pearls about a specific subset yet they’re not making good faith arguments? Lol.
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I’d argue the quantity of firearms is largely irrelevant unless you only care the thing was done by firearm.
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May mean more lives saved, even if it were feasible.
Alternatively, addressing the suicide motivations and pressures addresses all means of suicide - not just those by firearm.
Or perhaps improving the conditions that leads to most suicidal tendencies. Access to healthcare, mental health care, livable wages, housing, etc. Not addressing these issues is social murder.
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And yet you believe they’ll deliver on making firearms go away? Is it more or less likely, in your estimation?
So that answer to suicide by guns would be to make people not want to kill themselves so much, maybe by making a less desperate world to live in, such as by ending capitalism – but you instead just want to make a statistic not look as bad by making suicide less efficient?
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They’re highlighting the glaring flaw to your symptom-focused measures and the risks of clutching pearls about a specific subset yet they’re not making good faith arguments? Lol.
Look cognitive dissonance!