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To: Responsibility2nd
Ms. Gonzalez received support from Gays Against Guns, which is described in the article:

"For Gays Against Guns, that something is twofold: queerness and, relatedly, being on the defensive when it comes to violence. As the group states on its website and in literature it passes out at protests, the LGBT community is disproportionately affected by gun violence: first, because most gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides and LGBTQ people are overrepresented among suicide victims (92 percent of transgender adults have attempted suicide by age 25); second, because LGBTQ people are the most likely minority to be the victim of a hate crime."

So their point of view is that gun rights should be restricted because LGBTQ people are more likely to commit suicide than other Americans. Wouldn't work on the circumstances that lead to suicidal thoughts be more useful?

What conclusions can be reached when the advocates of restricting the right to self defense purposely avoid trying to solve the actual problems that lead to untimely deaths?

14 posted on 03/26/2018 3:08:15 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

Yep. Sad that so many see the end of their lives as a solution, often to a situation which really isn’t beyond hope. That and Gonzalez being a total a-hole to Cruz and pretty much taking apparent pleasure in it.


16 posted on 03/26/2018 3:26:45 PM PDT by Morpheus2009 (Couldn't)
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