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In reply to the discussion: How to stop gun proliferation in the US [View all]Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)65. Now look up suicide...see if you can figure out how you force a voluntary act
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Japan's suicides prefer rope and high places. And its rate is far greater than ours.
Eleanors38
Jul 2016
#140
why do so many gun owners feel this need to claim they have guns for personal protection?
gejohnston
Jul 2016
#38
"Red Dawn?" How about good sense dawning? Until police arrive, YOU ARE the first line of defense.
Eleanors38
Jul 2016
#142
You state that, in your view, the chief reason for carrying is self defense.
guillaumeb
Jul 2016
#163
Who knows? Fertilizer bombs, lack powder bombs, vehicles, arson w/ accelerant, machete...
Eleanors38
Jul 2016
#180
How does one use force or threat of force in an intentionally voluntary act?
Press Virginia
Jul 2016
#57
Suicide is a voluntary intentional act. Violence is the use of force or threat of force
Press Virginia
Jul 2016
#61
Actually the 300+yr old standard definition of the words, in the English language, convinced me
Press Virginia
Jul 2016
#63
Now look up suicide...see if you can figure out how you force a voluntary act
Press Virginia
Jul 2016
#65
IOWs, you abandoned the 300 year old standard English definition to embrace
Press Virginia
Jul 2016
#98
How about asking whether the choice people may make to kill themselves with a gun
jmg257
Jul 2016
#56
its their life and their choice. Calling it violence is a dishonest means to inflate
Press Virginia
Jul 2016
#60
I need the same number of bullets as any member of the President's security detail
Press Virginia
Jul 2016
#86
Have you even been in the same location where someone was shooting a gun
Press Virginia
Jul 2016
#85
Absolutely. Which makes me wonder why you would think now more than 3 rounds
Press Virginia
Jul 2016
#102
Oh commmme onnnn. Next you'll tell us this happens to trained professionals too
Press Virginia
Jul 2016
#114
What are the chances for any one person to be killed by a terrorist in the US?
guillaumeb
Jul 2016
#55
There is a more bad blood in the world than you can possibly imagine
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Jul 2016
#32
"Its time to end the war on drugs and spend that money helping those with addiction problems."
pablo_marmol
Jul 2016
#50