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billh58

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5. But according to
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 12:03 PM
Apr 2013

the Gungeoneers, suicides don't count as gun violence because he would have found another way if he didn't have access to a gun.

So please don't blame the system that gave him easy access to a gun, but rather blame those who would have made it harder to choose a gun rather than a rope, or a high building, or a razor, or any other method that would have required pain and fear, and an opportunity to reconsider.

Suicide by gun is the preferred method, and is almost always successful. That's the American way, and what the Second Amendment guarantees.

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