Man Commits Suicide While Watching 'Watchmen'

I think a lot of you aren't seeing past the movie he was at.

Maybe he was watching that movie and felt so lonely, nobody to see it with, alone at night, that he couldn't take it anymore. I've attempted suicide twice, and both of those times, it was during feelings of complete isolation and loneliness; one was at a Christmas party and one was after a night out with a family member.

I don't think making jokes about it is cool, "Oh the second half sucked, hurr hurr." Yeah, some circumstances may seem funny, but when you're THAT under everything, nothing feels real, and you seem to be the loneliest person in the world. I feel really sorry for him and I wish I knew him so I could try to make him feel less lonely before he did something like that.

"Seems to work" - by what metric? Australia banned guns and their incidence of violent crime skyrocketed almost overnight.

I don't understand what's unclear about the second amendment. Every other amendment is a personal right- why would the right to keep and bear arms be any different?

Sorry Gary but gun bans have never worked in any country they ever been imposed on. They're good ideas in theory, but in reality simply don't work out as planned. Australia is a good example, also Britain, and there is plenty, plenty more that suffered unintended consequences of such laws.

Secondly, this guy would have just found some other way to off himself, pencils don't misspell words.

The 2nd Amendments does not refer to the National Guard/Army/or any other breed of government body. The Amendments were made for the sole purpose of protecting you and I from the government,

Your personal choice to own or use a gun is your absolute right, that should not infringed upon even if I disagree with it...

...but the safest kind of society is the kind that can protect itself.

Do you see any other countries have shooting every week like US? How about the shooting in Binghamton just happenned? And then right after that there was another shooting in Pittsburgh. And in the same day, a man killed his 5 children by shooting them in graham.
Or, do I just make it up?

"I think it is safe to assume that the 2nd amendment only really refers to armies and law enforcement."

When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me. There was a Supreme Court case about the Second Amendment just last year, in case you were living under a rock.

Courtesy of Wikipedia:

District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) is a landmark legal case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for private use . . . Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, stated, "In sum, we hold that the District's ban on handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment, as does its prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense ... We affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_v_Heller

Actually, as someone from the UK who lives in Australia I think I am more than qualified to tell you that you are wrong.

The latest figures I can find are from 2002, but this works as is after Australia and the UK brought much stricter gun controls into place.

The is a list of murders by firearms per country...

United States: 9,369
Germany: 269
Canada: 144
Australia: 59
Japan: 47
United Kingdom: 14


There is also some lists of total deaths by guns (including suicides, accidents etc..) that is around somewhere but I cannot find it. From memory is put the US at around 30,000 deaths a year as opposed to Australia's 300.

Your response has no basis in fact whatsoever and is typical of mis-information that the pro-gun lobby love to throw around.

And to make the point a little stronger, it would be worth looking at murders per country per capita to see if any of this stands up. A murder's a murder, whether it's with firearms or not...

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita

US is at #24
AUS # 43
UK #46

It's common sense - bar a bow and arrow or a well-aimed brick, what makes it easier to kill from a distance, that you can hide in your pocket?

Total and utter madness.

I live in Canada and we're doing pretty well, despite the majority of us not owning guns. The problem we have is that gangs are importing their guns illegally from the States! :\

Yes, some day the US government could go militant and start oppressing the public, at which point civilians could grab their weapons and start a revolution. As long as that fear exists the US they'll will never give up their right to bear arms.

The statistic arguments will never justify either side, as US is the US, a unique country. The only way you could justify a gun ban (or not), would be clone the US and institute a gun ban, then see which US prospers.

As that will never happen, the only way a gun ban will never take effect in the States is if the recession turns into a prolonged depression, people turn violent out of desparation, and the government is forced to implement a gun ban out of necessity.

Interesting point on the "murders per capita". I hadn't heard that before, but I looked it up and its true. Also, the right to bear arms is certainly not about the military. It was response by citizens drafting the country who had lived under a government that had attempted to suppress their liberties. Washington, Jefferson, Adams, etc. all knew what government was capable of, and the founders wanted to guarantee citizens the right to protect themselves. I happen to hate guns. Never shot one, never want too, but when you start saying that we should take away that guaranteed right of the people then I have issues. If you can do that to the second ammendment then why not the first? So if you don't like guns, then don't own one, but most of the people who are so outraged by gun violence are white, middle class people who will never see it. And like someone else pointed out, in countries where guns are criminalized you know who has guns? Criminals. If the US banned guns do you think that the gangs currently using them wouldn't find a way to get them? I'd much rather have the Right to buy my own for defense then not be able to legally obtain one and have to try and defend myself from someone who smuggled one in. The way to stop gun violence isn't to outlaw guns, but to address the reasons for the violence. Those reasons have nothing to do with guns, but are much more integrally tied into economics.