Well, they may still have been choking hazards after the toys were removed, depending on how dry they were.
They didn’t remove them because they were choking hazards; they removed them because they included little tiny plastic guns.
And it is worth the price!
"Firearm-related deaths in the United States are expected to surpass the number of traffic fatalities by 2015, according to at least one recent study. In some states, that is already the reality.
In fact, it’s the case in at least 14 states across the country, Mother Jones reported on Monday. The publication, using information compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, determined that in 2010 – the most recent year for which data is available – nine states experienced more gun than vehicle accident deaths. In an even more grisly revelation, gun suicides alone outnumbered traffic deaths in five states – Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Utah. "
Are gun deaths moving up or auto deaths moving down? What percent of gun deaths are suicides?
What difference does it make? Suicides and homicides are both more difficult in a better world without guns.
Suicides is something the person wants, which is different from being the victim of a crime or accident. Also suicides can be performed pretty easy by other means if a gun is not handy. Hanging being a pretty easy way. That’s why other counties without easy access to guns often have as many or more suicides. Agree with all that or no?
Bob aren’t all you lib dems supposed to be in favor of assisted suicide and the right to die anyway?
You see, we “lib dems” see assisted suicide as a sensitive decision, made with one’s doctors and familiy, that would allow a terminally ill patient to fade away with dignity – not, 'here’s a gun, blow you head off if you feel like it," you incredible tool.
I favor assisted suicide for the right reasons. If you’re terminally ill and would otherwise die a long and painful death, I support your decision to get help to end your suffering. If you’re a teenager upset because the girl of your dreams won’t go out with you, I don’t want you to be able to grab a gun and splatter your brains over the walls. Sure, there are other ways to kill yourself (and others). But I don’t subscribe to the notion that we have to eliminate all the possiblilities or we can’t eliminate any.
That’s great Jack, now suppose you live in a country or state that does not allow assisted suicide. What should a suffering person do? Just suffer? Do you think it wrong for a person to take their life, or death, into their own hands?
What’s the point for attempting to eliminate one way if they can just choose another? Glad to hear that you want to eliminate guns though. Most gun-prohibitionists don’t want to admit that these days.
Say you have 5 roads that go from Point A to Point B. You want to keep people from going from A to B. One road is wide and flat, the other four are narrow, full of potholes, and cross a mountain range. Which road do you shut down? The wide and flat one. Sure, people can still go from A to B, but it’s harder and takes longer. Same with suicide, take the guns away and fewer people would do it. It takes a lot more nerve to slit your wrist than put a gun barrel in your mouth, so without guns there will be dramatically fewer suicides. Can I get to zero? No, but I can save a lot of people by banning guns.
Part of preventing suicides is preventing the ones prompted by short-term despair and facilitated by access to quick and easy means of doing so. I’ve heard stories of people throwing themselves in front of (and, in one case, out of) fast-moving trains on momentary impulse, but of course a train is not always handy. Guns are an ideal choice for this sort of thing: many people have them around the house, they’re quick and easy to use, and death is swift, presumably painless and relatively guaranteed.
Sure, you could always hang yourself but look around you - how quickly could you find something to hang yourself from and something to hang yourself with, and then set everything up so that you’d die quickly and cleanly without spending long minutes dangling and kicking in agony? Or you could slit your wrists, but that will definitely hurt and might not work even if someone doesn’t find you in time. It’s not so easy.
It’s worth trying to put up barriers to save lives. For example, the UK used to have a problem with people overdosing on aspirin as a means of impulse-driven suicide. “But”, I hear you cry, “you can still buy aspirin!”. Yes you can - but that doesn’t mean they didn’t do anything, nor that it didn’t work. A 25% reduction is a big deal.
Suicides will still happen, just as crime still happens despite the existence of police. But the harder you make it, the less it will happen.
False analogy. See how you had to bring up wrist slitting? I never mentioned that, of course slitting your wrist sounds unpleasant. Hanging however seems as flat, wide, and comfortable road out of life as a firearm. Maybe more so. Look at Japan where they don’t have guns. More suicides there than here. Australia took a lot of guns away, suicide by hanging just went up.
I say hanging isn’t as easy. You have to find a spot to hang from, you have to figure out the noose, you have to be able to tie, have the nerve to jump off the chair, etc. Plenty of chances to change your mind. From first impulse to death, firearms are the Autobahn of suicide.
A belt and a closet rod is all it takes. Bend your knees, constrict the carotids, and you pass out painlessly in seconds, expire painlessly minutes later. That’s why it’s so popular.
A noose isn’t hard to figure out and you don’t have to jump off a chair dipshit.
You can’t keep repeating something until it’s true. Of course, you’ve just shown us how inept your are at reading studies, so I don’t imagine you’ll get it this time either.
And yet, when given a choice, people prefer firearms almost 3 to 1.
See? There we were having a civil discussion and you have to start being insulting.