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Keyser Söze

On 7/16/16 8:38 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 17:31:48 -0500, Brian Whatcott
wrote:

On 7/15/2016 12:51 PM, wrote:
In the light of the Nice France attack, I think it is time to call for
truck control. We need to register all of the trucks. We need to
license all of the people owning and using trucks. We need to regulate
how fast they go, how much they can carry and we need to regulate
private sales, requiring that all are documented with the government.

Oh wait ... they do. Yet 84 people were killed and many more had
horrific injuries, caused by this fully automatic truck.

Entirely predictable - a one time massacre of up to a hundred with a
truck outweighs (for example) the twenty thousand who shoot themselves
each and every year.
And if it is mentioned how this number can readily be reduced by social
forces, the predictable NRA response to that is:
"No - not so - they will just find another way to top themselves" which
by the way is evidentially disproven.

It certainly is not disproved by the japanese who have a far higher
suicide rate than the US with virtually zero guns.

Suicide is a mental health issue, not a gun issue.

Oh, please. Guns make suicide easy.