Tag: suicide

The Undiscovered Country

So… the only time “progressives” pretend they to be horrified by suicide is when it’s DIY and a gun is used…

If the choice had been hers, Brigitte Stegemann would have said “No.”

[Via Michael G]

Talk About a Slanted Take…

A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect [More]

So, is the woman-championing New Yorker suddenly questioning a woman’s right/competency to choose life partners? And are a man’s dying wishes not to be honored?

As far as overall numbers…

And let’s not forget the Only Ones prohibitionists say should have guns…

Great “real reporting” there, DSM flack Mike Spies…

[Via Dan Gifford]

Brooking No Competition

In Canada, 80% of firearms related deaths are suicides… [More]

Vs.

In Canada, assisted suicides—officially termed Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)—account for roughly 1 in 20 (about 5%) of all deaths nationally. In contrast, traditional unassisted suicides comprise a smaller fraction of total national mortality, making medically assisted deaths significantly more frequent than traditional suicides in Canada.

We’ve talked about authorized/promoted by “progressives” vs. unauthorized/condemned by “progressives” before.

And before that.

To Be or Not to Be, Eh?

‘Shocked’: Canadian Hospital Told Priest with Broken Hip He Might Need to Consider Assisted Suicide [More]

Never mind that Catholics consider it a sin.

Suicide is bad if it’s an individual choice and a gun is used. But it’s good if “progressive” government controls things.

No?

[Via CP]

We’re the Only Ones Mental Enough

A former Massachusetts police officer has been found not guilty of attempting to shoot a brother in blue after she testified she was trying to kill herself as officers arrived at her home to serve a restraining order filed by her ex-fiancé. [More]

More proof that only the police should have guns…

Hey, I wonder how many suicides disclaimers like the one at the start of this story and like they put at the beginning of TV shows and movies result in lives saved? About as many as tobacco product warnings?

Stay Focused

In my analysis, guns resist simple categorization as either universally good or bad, dangerous or protective, fun or frightening. Instead, they are best under-stood through a “kaleidoscopic view,”considering the issue from multiple angles. To be sure, this requires maintaining a clear-eyed understanding of the lethal capabilities of firearms. [More]

Some of us have a clear-eyed understanding that sees through fabricated distortions.

That’s why we insist on “shall not be infringed.”

And reject kaleidoscopic views of gun owners as a panacea.

[Via Andy M]

We’re the Only Ones Self-Cleaning Enough

Governor Murphy’s Armed ‘Only One’—Trooper Slays Ex-Girlfriend & Her Boyfriend Before Killing Himself ~ VIDEO [More]

The weight of the badge…

Lieutenant, huh? So he’d been getting away with being a headcase for some time. You’d better believe he fit in with the tone being set and his colleagues and subordinates were aware of what he was like. I wonder if an investigation will show management knew damn well from complaints and incidents that they had a ticking bomb, and if that means it will be compromised to bury their own culpability.

New Jersey… where Democrats finish off what the Hessians could not…

I love how the term “Only Ones” has been accepted and spread throughout the gun community.

The Undiscovered Country, Eh?

The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand. [More]

There’s that typical collectivist understanding of rights again, so unsurprising, expected, actually, to see being promulgated by The Atlantic.

We could start with asking how much the government making life unbearable has to do with the numbers, and then segue over to why one of the trump cards our domestic prohibitionists pull to ban guns is “suicide,” which they’re evidently all for if it’s the “assisted” kind.

I’d also be curious to know if there are dominant political and theological ideologies common among those seeking early checkout.

Another One Bites the Dust

All in all, there is hardly any evidence that handgun waiting period laws make a difference in homicides or suicides… As far as suicides are concerned, they have no effect on either gun suicide rates or total suicide rates. [More]

Another prohibitionist bit of calculated misdirection, that is…

Everybody here is totally aware of Gun Facts and relies on it as a go-to resource, right?

We’re the Only Ones Homicidal Enough

Three years ago, Detective Daniel Leyden shot and killed his girlfriend, Deputy Abigail Bieber, before turning the gun and killing himself. It was the third murder-suicide involving Hillsborough County deputies within five years. [More]

And the LEO/”civilian” divide isn’t just localized.

Just think of all the situations and places where they can have a gun and you can’t. Then ask yourself what the state is unleashing on the rest of us.

[Via Edmund M]

Suicide Squad

San Antonio police have identified a man accused of shooting seven police officers in Stone Oak during a response to a suicide in progress call…Poulos was out on bond for weekend arrest. Court records show Poulos was arrested on Saturday, Jan. 18, and charged four times. [More]

What a confusingly written story.

In any case, it sounds like they knew he couldn’t be trusted. That he got a gun anyway is all the validation that observation needs.

How the hell did he get seven of them if they knew?

[Via Steve T]