Always, but you cannot save people from themselves - and to order them, organise them and legislate for them to limit 'needless deaths by decree' is to seek to deprive them of the very liberty you set out to value, applaud and defend.
Your alternative would seem to infer a Society where no one dies - but no-one lives either.
I know which Society I would vote for, and it wouldn't be yours my friend. Sorry.
EXACTLY.
Freedom does have a price. I'm not saying a needless death is a necessary price. Far from it. It is a tragedy pure and simple. Still, for a government to legislate and remove rights heads down an Orwellian path.'
Jim, as usual, has posted lots of stats to further his left agenda. By God, he's so righteous and so good, how can you argue?
Of course he did fail to point out there's no constitutional right to driving drunk (and it's, in fact, against the law), there's no constitutional right to smoke, ride a motorcycle, or even drive a car. So, the analogies are completely irrelevant.
Oh, by the way, 2/3 of all US gun deaths are suicides, not homicides. The homicide rate was 7 per 100,000 in the early nineties, it's half that now and continues to drop. A conveniently overlooked.
Haven't we been down this thread before?
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