If one considers the enormity of 100,000 suicides in just four years, he has to see the logic of this article as sound thinking. Humans have tried to control everyone in their spheres of influence since there have been humans, but all such attempts have been temporary at best and have come with losses of other freedoms for most in those spheres (as in dictatorships).
Unlike mass shooting deaths, those 25,000 suicides per year don't grab headlines unless the individual has fame. Pundits and politicians call for one-size-fits-all action that work no better than Prohibition did at stopping alcohol use or restrictions on illegal drug use did in preventing fentanyl deaths. Suicides are iindividual tragedies that exceed those mass shooting deaths. (For 2018 data shown, suicides made up 61% of all gun deaths--no insignificant percentage!--and mass shooting deaths for 2018, though horribly tragic and possibly preventable, amounted to 0.0028 percent of the year's total)
If one considers the enormity of 100,000 suicides in just four years, he has to see the logic of this article as sound thinking. Humans have tried to control everyone in their spheres of influence since there have been humans, but all such attempts have been temporary at best and have come with losses of other freedoms for most in those spheres (as in dictatorships).
Unlike mass shooting deaths, those 25,000 suicides per year don't grab headlines unless the individual has fame. Pundits and politicians call for one-size-fits-all action that work no better than Prohibition did at stopping alcohol use or restrictions on illegal drug use did in preventing fentanyl deaths. Suicides are iindividual tragedies that exceed those mass shooting deaths. (For 2018 data shown, suicides made up 61% of all gun deaths--no insignificant percentage!--and mass shooting deaths for 2018, though horribly tragic and possibly preventable, amounted to 0.0028 percent of the year's total)