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If you see the article I posted, you will find a deranged lunatic massacring a bunch of younglings with a knife as if his name was Anakin Skywalker. No guns needed.
I had to stop there because it fails to invalidate my point. Again, we don't have a gun problem. We have a crime problem. There is no evidence to suggest that taking guns away will lower murder rates. We have high gun violence because we have a lot of guns. But the violence will not go away if guns were to go away. Likely, if guns magically vanished from the United States, the United States would have one of the highest knife deaths in the world. So let's please focused on the real issues and stop being distracted by the methods.
One can commit suicide with a bladed instrument; I don’t think, however that knife suicides would grow very much, as the actions necessary would require a level of resolve to go through with the act that would preclude such a person from considering such. (Strong-willed people tend to reason themselves out of suicide-by-knife.)
Your point is mute. See previous comments. Even if I even entertained your deflection to suicides, knives are not the only other option. Perhaps sleeping pill overdoses would be the next big craze for all we know.
You think suicides are also the fault of guns? Even in Canada, suicide is no longer a problem because the State encourages and even facilitates it. So don't try equating the availablility of guns in the USA to the availability of suicide.
I'd just like to point out that guns are also an equalizer against violence in that a gun in the hands of a potential victim, no matter if they be female, old, weak, etc., they have a much better chance of surviving an attack against an aggressor, even if the aggressor be a big, strong guy who preys upon the weak.
Because it is scientifically proven that guns make people want to kill themselves. It's the gun demons to blame.
But only if the children have been born. Pre-born are strictly off-limits and must be brought into the world for various reasons such as to "replenish the domestic supply", and sacrifice themselves for the 2nd amendment.
Abortions already takes care of the blood offerings. The rest is just the gun demons.
Therin lies the problem with people who have basically made a career out of pushing the intersectional ideologies.
To me the original formulation of intersectional makes sense: that there's various aspects of personal identity which can and often do affect power relations in interrelated ways.
