Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.
In the coming days, Belcher’s actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.Because as former-NFL player OJ Simpson can tell you, it's impossible to kill your wife/girlfriend/ex with a knife. And former NFL-player Antonio Bryant definitely didn't get arrested in September for strangling his ex-girlfriend. And former NFL-player Larry Johnson didn't get arrested in October for strangling a woman.
And it's simply impossible to commit suicide without a gun, as this wikipedia article on "suicide methods" shows.
Anyway, back to reality. Studies in Australia showed that decreased gun ownership does indeed decrease the rate of gun-inflicted suicide, meanwhile other types of suicide like hanging go up. FBI data indicates that present-day America, with its relaxed gun laws and "gun culture" is actually at its safest level since 1968.
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