From the linked article:
'A 2014 meta-analysis, conducted by researchers at UC San Francisco, of the scientific studies on guns and suicide concluded that access to firearms increases the risk of suicide. Similarly, the 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention from the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention and the U.S. Surgeon General concluded that “firearm access is a risk factor for suicide in the United States.”'
There is no doubt that this is both true and accurate, only a ridiculous idiot would attempt to deny this fact.
There is also no doubt that such a fact is legally and Constitutionally irrelevant, having no bearing whatsoever on the right of citizens to possess and carry firearms.
Indeed, citizens have a fundamental right to possess and carry firearms pursuant to the right of lawful self-defense, as enshrined in the Second Amendment.
And like other rights citizens are not required to 'justify' exercising a right as a 'prerequisite' to in fact do so; government may not seek to preempt, limit, restrict, or deny citizens their rights predicated solely on what citizens 'might' do, such as commit suicide with a firearm – just as government may not seek to prohibit free speech because a citizen 'might' yell fire in a crowded theater, or prohibit citizens to peaceably assemble because someone 'might' incite a riot.
'A 2014 meta-analysis, conducted by researchers at UC San Francisco, of the scientific studies on guns and suicide concluded that access to firearms increases the risk of suicide. Similarly, the 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention from the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention and the U.S. Surgeon General concluded that “firearm access is a risk factor for suicide in the United States.”'
There is no doubt that this is both true and accurate, only a ridiculous idiot would attempt to deny this fact.
There is also no doubt that such a fact is legally and Constitutionally irrelevant, having no bearing whatsoever on the right of citizens to possess and carry firearms.
Indeed, citizens have a fundamental right to possess and carry firearms pursuant to the right of lawful self-defense, as enshrined in the Second Amendment.
And like other rights citizens are not required to 'justify' exercising a right as a 'prerequisite' to in fact do so; government may not seek to preempt, limit, restrict, or deny citizens their rights predicated solely on what citizens 'might' do, such as commit suicide with a firearm – just as government may not seek to prohibit free speech because a citizen 'might' yell fire in a crowded theater, or prohibit citizens to peaceably assemble because someone 'might' incite a riot.
