"Well Regulated Militia"

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(08-08-2019, 08:20 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Seeing as how I've been active in this thread the whole time addressing the topic of firearms I don't think that's a fair accusation to make.  You think suicide is an act of violence, I do not.  We are engaging in a semantic argument that, you are correct, has nothing to do with firearms.  Therefore we can agree to disagree on this semantic argument and move on.

Neither of us moved this from firearms suicide to other types of suicide, but somehow we fell into some trap talking semantics of all suicide. 

I know from past threads we have had a similar take on gun control in the wake of shootings: would the proposal have actually changed anything in this case?

That's why the only real policy I am advocating for is increasing research for gun violence. Let's find out more and use that to create policy. I understand some take issue with lumping suicides and homicides together, but at the end of the day I think funding research for all forms of gun deaths is important. I don't care how it is categorized or labeled.