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Again from Brady Campaign, and Joyce Foundation Member Joan Peterson

But the evidence is plain that guns cause more suicide than other methods and that gun suicides are ahead of gun homicides as to the number of gun deaths in our country. So, even if you all want me to stop working on this, it just does not make sense. Why can’t you all admit that guns do contribute to a great number of suicides and that there are things that can be done? As I have said many many times before. There are a lot of causes in the country on which to spend time. I have chosen to spend my time on this one. It is useless for you all to tell me I shouldn’t. I just don’t get that. What benefit is that to you all? If I stop advocating for common sense concerning prevention of gun homicides, suicides and accidental deaths, will that do something for you? Why do you all persist in this nonsensical argument?

I mean that little blurb just says so much. “Guns Cause Suicide”? Joan also thinks guns cause crime as well. That isn’t true. But then she says guns CONTRIBUTE to suicide…well which is it? I would agree to an extent with the the 2nd statement, as guns are popular suicide tools, but they account for only 50% of all suicides, so if guns vanished magically, I have little doubt people committed to end their life wouldn’t turn to another tool. I mean I had a lose screw I had to tighten the other day, I didn’t have a screwdriver…so I used a dime that was in my pocket. Wasn’t as elegant, but the screw is still tight.

I also disagree that its useless to tell Joan to give up the gun control nonsense. Not because she WILL give up, but because it invokes GREAT quotes like this.

But the most important one is this.

“If I stop advocating for common sense concerning prevention of gun homicides, suicides and accidental deaths, will that do something for you?”

Yes it will, just as it will when somebody arguing for ownership of blacks stops, or somebody arguing for segregation of schools stops, or somebody arguing for the prohibition of alcohol stops, or somebody arguing the joys of national socialism stops. These are all DANGEROUS things that are being advocated, and all of them have caused tremendously amounts of death and destruction throughout the years. You are a threat to our lives, our safety, and our well-being.

That’s what’s in it for us.

Again Joan Peterson of the Brady Campaign, Joyce Foundation, and the Million Mom March is the best thing in the world to push people who actually have Common Sense away from gun control.

I know why the homicide rate is so high in the U.S.- guns. That is widely recognized in other countries. People I know who have lived abroad tell me that citizens in other countries are mystified by our gun culture here. Suicide is lower than other countries but guns are responsible for the majority of the suicides.

Man, Joan, if you could back that up with facts to show it wasn’t wild speculation you’d have a hell of an argument, and I’d probably join your side again!