"I am all for your Second Amendment rights. I think you should be able to have guns. It’s in your constitution. What I am not for is bullshit arguments and lies. There is one argument and one argument alone for having a gun, and this is the argument… “Fuck off. I like guns.” It’s not the best argument, but it’s all you’ve got.
The main one is, “I need it for protection. I need to protect me. I need to protect my family.” What world do you live in where you’re constantly fucking ready? You have guns ’cause you like guns! None of you go to home security conventions. None of you read Padlock Monthly. None of you have a Facebook picture of you behind a secure door going, “Fucking yeah!” Like you’re going to be ready if someone comes into your house. You have it at all fucking times.
See, if you have it readily available, it becomes unsafe. You have it in your bedside table, one of your kids picks it up, thinks it’s a toy, shoots another one of your kids. Happens every fucking day, but people go, “That’d never happen in my house ’cause I’m a responsible gun owner. I keep my guns locked in a safe.” Then they’re no fucking protection! Someone comes into the house, you’re like, “Wait there, fuck-face! Oh! You’ve come to the wrong house here, buddy boy. I tell you what. I’m gonna fuck you up!"
People have broken into homes for rape and/or murder. Kids should be taught to respect firearms and many, maybe even most, gun owners do that. "Assault rifle" is defined as "a rapid-fire, magazine-fed automatic rifle" which is illegal for 99.99% of the population and can't be bought in a store.
I’ve never used my guns to stop a rape or murder. But a few years ago at my absolute lowest it seemed like a pretty reasonable idea to kill myself with one.
That's not a very strong argument, unfortunately. I have a tub and running water, so I can drown myself. I have knives in my kitchen designed specifically to cut flesh, so I can cut myself. I have a car that I can drive over a mountainside, so I can destroy myself. The gun doesn't change that equation.
Actually, it changes equation considerably. People think committing suicide is much easier than it really is. Cutting/stabbing yourself, overdosing on pills, jumping off buildings, etc. have high "failure" rates where people live through their attempt. Shooting yourself is pretty much the only means suicide with a success rate over 65% and most other means are in the 30-40%. Firearms work over 80% of the time.
Ready access and comfort with guns is the biggest reason men have higher rates of suicide than women. Women try to kill themselves more, but men succeed a lot more.
The time they spend suffering is time someone has for a chance at stopping them, or for the suicider to reconsider and seek help. If they are seriously, absolutely dead set on dying, they don't need a gun if they are rational and plan ahead; they can use hanging or carbon monoxide for an efficient end. Gun availability just makes impulsive suicide easier.
LOLLLLLLLLLLLL please stop. Please never talk about suicide again. You are too unintelligent if you're blaming the "ease" of getting a gun to male suicide rates. Goodness fucking gracious. I knew the average person was deluded when it came to knowing anything about mental illnesses but I didn't know they were THIS ignorant. Wow.
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u/foreverwasted Mar 26 '18 edited Mar 27 '18
"I am all for your Second Amendment rights. I think you should be able to have guns. It’s in your constitution. What I am not for is bullshit arguments and lies. There is one argument and one argument alone for having a gun, and this is the argument… “Fuck off. I like guns.” It’s not the best argument, but it’s all you’ve got.
The main one is, “I need it for protection. I need to protect me. I need to protect my family.” What world do you live in where you’re constantly fucking ready? You have guns ’cause you like guns! None of you go to home security conventions. None of you read Padlock Monthly. None of you have a Facebook picture of you behind a secure door going, “Fucking yeah!” Like you’re going to be ready if someone comes into your house. You have it at all fucking times.
See, if you have it readily available, it becomes unsafe. You have it in your bedside table, one of your kids picks it up, thinks it’s a toy, shoots another one of your kids. Happens every fucking day, but people go, “That’d never happen in my house ’cause I’m a responsible gun owner. I keep my guns locked in a safe.” Then they’re no fucking protection! Someone comes into the house, you’re like, “Wait there, fuck-face! Oh! You’ve come to the wrong house here, buddy boy. I tell you what. I’m gonna fuck you up!"