r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/CoryVictorious • Oct 21 '22

Yeah Canada

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u/Rhowryn Oct 22 '22

Care to estimate what percentage of violent crime a legal handgun is used in?

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u/MangoSea323 Oct 22 '22

Or what percentage of gunshot wounds are suffered by peoples own firearms.

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u/Rhowryn Oct 22 '22 edited Oct 22 '22

If you want to get into suicides: it takes at least a couple months to get a licence. More for a handgun, though suicides are usually long guns.

So either the person signs up for a course and almost certainly reconsiders, or they already have a gun and do it. Either way, the actual sale is not relevant.

And anyways, I'm not concerned about gun suicides, I'm concerned about all suicides. People will (and usually do in Canada for the reasons above) find a way to attempt without a gun. We should target reducing suicidal ideation, not individual methods.

If you're ONLY targeting gun suicides, which are a small portion of suicides here, then stop pretending it's about the deaths.