Let’s be honest for a second, the self defense thing is going to wear off after a while. At some point you can only peddle fear for so long. As a capitalist slash republican slash free market slash gun lover I think by reading this that we have been trumpetting the “self defense” meme to death (ha get it? death…you don’t? read on..you will)
The researchers employed a simple procedure: They tabulated all the suicides that had taken place in Washington between 1968 and 1987. Colin Loftin and David McDowall found that the gun ban correlated with an abrupt 25 percent decline in suicides in the city.
The researchers also tabulated the kinds of suicide that declined in Washington: The 25 percent decline was entirely driven by a decline in firearm-related suicide.
What the authors of the Second Amendment did not foresee, however, is that when people own a gun, they unwittingly raise their risk of getting hurt and killed — because the odds that they will one day use their gun to commit suicide are much larger than the odds they will use their gun to defend themselves against intruders, muggers and killers
If anyone in the marketing department of Smith & We$$on wants to give me a buzz, I’m pretty sure I can find an angle to get more guns into the hands of the depressed. My guess is there are more depressed people out there then there were in 2000. We got tons PTSD type military people now! We got way more people without health care. Hell, Starbucks, Bank of America, the airlines, the mortgage industry is all laying off, GM too….
OHHHH wait another brilliant idea! All those people that get laid off…we should give them discounts to buy guns.
Seriously…call me, I got tons of ideas on how to make money here…woohoooo. I’m seeing an ad in GQ with a guy with no head sitting next to a shot gun (Cobaine style) and a headline that says, “Take Control of your life, buy a shotgun”
I’m hot today boy!