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]
The Undiscovered Country
Notes from the Resistance
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]
This has been making the rounds, and if true (and it looks like it is), consider that by the raw numbers more Canadians die from/under MAID than Americans die from “gun violence.”
By the population-adjusted numbers, it’s not even close. Not even if you include suicide-by-firearm (which the study didn’t; it only counted homicides).
The raw numbers: In 2025, some 16,000+ Canadians died under the MAID program, out of a population of just under 42 million. That same year, some 14,651 (best number I could find) Americans died in gun-related homicides, out of a population of ~340 million.
America has eight times the population, so when adjusted for that, a Canadian is about nine times as likely to die under MAID than an American is to be murdered with a firearm. Even if you include suicide-by-firearm in the “gun deaths” number — because around 2/3 of “gun deaths” are suicides, so that triples the number of deaths — a Canadian is still about three times as likely to die under MAID.
The headline — “More Canadians die from MAID each year than Americans do from gun homicides” — is already bad enough. Adjust for the population, and it gets so much worse. MAID now counts for over 5% of deaths in Canada, and is the third-leading cause of death.
And now that reports are coming out that some Canadians dying under MAID did NOT desire to end their lives, it’s looking like at least a plurality of those numbers are government-sanctioned euthanasia and/or eugenics, not physician-assisted suicide. The more you learn about it, the worse it gets.