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A gun craves the blood of its owner most of all.
It’s quite the paradox, considering how much more gently police deal with armed protests than unarmed ones.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/
The obvious solution is to have more guns owned by less-suicidal people.
Well, technically there will wind up being fewer suicidal people if everyone has guns.
w-well then what do I need the gun for?
To not shoot yourself with, obviously.
Waiting periods and background checks probably help with this to at least reduce the number of people that can buy a gun while actively dealing with a mental health crisis. On the other end of things, assisted suicide would probably help people with terminal conditions choose a less risky method.
buy a gun while actively dealing with a mental health crisi
That’s only useful at that point in time and only for someone (or more likely a household) without any guns already. So pretty much entirely ineffective.
Auto-euthanasia would have a price tag that probably defats it’s usefulness too.
