Of course it's a choice, but many people who attempt it and fail are grateful as hell to be alive a year or two later. No reason to make it easy or accessible. Plus leaving a child of a single mother as an orphan would be horrible.

Child of a Marine who died in Iraq. Mother is depressed about her husband's death, but is living with it and raising her son. Then something happens to remind her of her late husband, and she has a breakdown takes the way out. What happens to her son? If the gun weren't right there, maybe she'd have had to think for a while before making an irrevocable decision.

Promoting suicide is both a legal and moral crime, as it should be.

Yeah I have heard of that, its a good program.

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2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

You really need to spend some time on critical thinking here.

Women generally are smaller and less physical than most men, so they are easily overpowered. They provide firearms to women who live in not so good areas because they are the most at risk to be harmed by an aggressive ex or home invader, etc.

Plus guys generally don't have to deal with getting raped.

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State rates remained about the same although the number of those with very high rates went from nine to 12. That signifies that at least 30 percent of adults are obese in Alabama (32 percent), Arkansas (30.9 percent), Indiana (30.8 percent), Kentucky (30.4 percent), Louisiana (33.4 percent), Michigan (31.3 percent), Mississippi (34.9 percent), Missouri (30.3 percent), Oklahoma (31.1 percent), South Carolina (30.8 percent), Texas (30.4 percent) and West Virginia (32.4 percent).
CDC unveils national obesity rates: Where does your state rank? - HealthPop - CBS News

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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Maybe Texans are just more honest!

OTOH, the CDC's time lapse map is just plain scary:
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html (scroll to bottom of page)

Suicide is a sin...
so programs that result in expanding the number of suicides must be sinful...
so those that support those programs must be....
SINNERS!!!

whole buncha folks going to burn on this score.... ya know, if religion is right.

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

https://media.giphy.com/media/X3nnss8PAj5aU/giphy.gif

It's not their fault they're fat, there's Waffle Houses everywhere....

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

https://media.giphy.com/media/X3nnss8PAj5aU/giphy.gif

Chiken Biskits Biskit's N Gravy Biskits N Briskets Biskits N Honey

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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

Has diet really changed that much over 15-20 years?

Deadlier than any gun...

The 1980 supersize is today's medium-size, both in fast food servings and American body proportions...

Houston rocks!

Did people eat more than one portion when they went out and grabbed a burger and fries at Mickey Dee's ca. 1980? Real question is who eats fast food more than once per week, unless he's on the road?

(Even on the road, you can walk into a grocery and either buy a healthier sandwich or the ingredients to produce the same.)

You need to get out more.

Millions of people eat fast food multiple times a week, and the processed boxed poison they buy at the grocery store is just as bad. The country is far more obese than it was in the 80s. Portion sizes have increased at an absurd rate. This is hardly news.

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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting