Gun deaths and suicide

A good number of gun deaths are ultimately to suicide - not surprising, given that it is a swift and effective method by which to kill yourself. Arguments that bans on guns are good because they prevent people from ending their lives are bad because what they are ultimately arguing is that one isn't allowed to end their life as they see fit. All such people who argue that guns should be disallowed on such grounds are effectively arguing that people don't have a right to dispense with their own property as they see fit, their body being among the things they would dispense with if they saw to it. We allow people to grind themselves down doing backbreaking labor that no dignified human ought to subject themselves to, and we allow humans to become cannon fodder for whatever territorial dispute our governments find themselves embroiled in. People should be allowed any and all means of suicide available, and arguments to the contrary do not come from a place of good will so much as they come from a place of insisting upon the state's right to do with bodies as it sees fit. Those that eliminate themselves deprive the state of their labor and servitude, something that the state finds undesirable.

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