The Right to Bear Arms...?

[ikyrian]

Right to Bear Arms: Daily Chart

Not having rigorous gun control isn't working in the US. People argue for it and against it, and what have you, but still, we see a lot of gun violence here. Why can't we give toughening our gun control laws a try? Seriously.

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Also, date didn't pan out - we had fun, but just didn't really connect. Besides, the man had shrimp scampi after I had already told him I was allergic. 9_9 Uh, yeah, no, dude. Fail.

Comments

[karweenie.livejournal.com]

Failures of parenting they certainly are. And kudos to your Dad. If kids were supervised, or if their parents had half a clue (I'm thinking especially of the Klebold and Harris households), so many of those suicides, deaths or massacres couldn't have happened.

Out of curiosity, why did your father keep guns? Was he a hunter?

Completely tangential: The Suicide Factsheet says 56% of all male suicides are committed with firearms, and that men make up 79% of all suicides. Holy shit!

[ikyrian.livejournal.com]

Both of the guys I knew who committed suicide were by shooting. :( I can't help but think if they hadn't had immediate access to them, they wouldn't have done it.

And yeah, though much is made about female suicides, the sad fact is men are more likely to do it.

[karweenie.livejournal.com]

What really struck me about those stats was that older white men are knocking themselves off left and right. What is it about being the most privileged part of our society that irritates these men?

[taqwa.livejournal.com]

Yeah. My dad doesn't hunt nearly as often as he used to, but he did regularly when I was younger. We occasionally would eat venison or bear that my dad brought home.