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Nah, humans already reached the maximum lifespan thanks to modern medical care. It's basically doubled in the last century, and the last decades suuuuck. A century or so is all we will ever get. Billionaires are just as obsessed with immortality as ancient emperor's, and it's as unobtainable as it ever was. What are they gonna do, implant virgin's organs when they're 103? They'll never survive the surgeries.

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‘I just fought for my life on my front lawn’: Transgender man attacked with hatchet at South Hill home

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What do you think usually happens? Does the gun spontaneously jump up, chamber a round, and attack? Or do you seriously think most gun fights result in hand to hand combat where the dude with just hands nearly always wins and disarms then murders the person defending themselves? Cause it sounds like the latter is what you want people to think, but both sound equally as stupid to me.

You know what I think it is? I think that number is mostly suicide. I also think that number deliberately ignores all successful self defense scenarios. Oh I'll bet a bunch of them are abusive partners murdering their victims. But those are exactly the people who needed a good defense option in the first place. Every single day they were already in danger. I'll bet there's also a bunch of dumbass parents who didn't secure their weapon properly to safeguard their dumbass kids. But I'll bet the numbers for strangers breaking in and murdering you in your own home with your own weapon are almost nil. And about the same for concealed carry incidents. Disarming someone prepared to defend themselves with a gun when you don't have one is fucking hard.

So mostly I hear you saying, "if you get a gun there's a slightly increased risk you'll commit suicide!!" If someone is buying a gun because they're worried about being the victim of hate crimes, they probably aren't suicidal.