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ellisonz

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2. Maybe they should be?
Sun Mar 24, 2013, 12:48 PM
Mar 2013

Every time I've seen a homicide in an urban part of America discussed in the Gungeon the attitude is that it's well not them. At the same time, the other post in this group right now is not how this topic should be discussed. Suicide doesn't just effect the person who does it, the effect is on the family and the community. Let's not forget, that at Newtown, the violence stopped with a suicide. Would Adam Lanza had done what he did if he hadn't imagined taking his own life at the end of his spree?

When the gunners tell me that suicide doesn't matter in the gun debate or that it shouldn't "drive" the gun debate, well then I tell them to put down the NRA Kool-Aid and look at the facts.

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