Anyway, back to Shannon. Another MDA supporter had repeated my assertion that there wasn’t a lot of work with suicide awareness in the campaign, and Mrs. Watts stated that “Few of daily shootings” are the result of mental health issues. 61% of gun deaths are suicides, yet she asserts that “few” of the deaths from guns are a result of mental health issues. I asked for clarification, and she informed me that suicide is not the issue – gun violence is. So, in essence, the founder of Moms Demand Action has clearly stated that they’re not concerned about suicides or helping prevent suicides – they’re just concerned about guns. Even though suicides make up 61% of the gun deaths in the country.
via Three Days in the Shoes of a Gun Activist – Georgia Packing Forum.
Outstanding work…. Go check out the whole post and the screen caps.
It has never been about preventing deaths but plain ole Control.
“[S]he informed me that suicide is not the issue – gun violence is.”
And yet, that doesn’t stop them from including suicides in the “gun violence” and “gun death” numbers. Either they’re concerned with suicides and those numbers should count toward the total, or they’re not and they shouldn’t. It CANNOT be both.
So which is it?