Congresswoman’s ‘Suicide Prevention’ Resolution Just Another Gun Control Push

I think we all want to curb suicides. Yes, especially “gun suicides,” if for no other reason than anti-gunners would no longer be able to use those numbers to try to push gun control. It’s not the only reason, at least for me, or even the driving one. However, I’m honest enough to acknowledge that it would be a useful benefit of a reduction in suicides with a firearm.

But it’s hard not to be cynical about people talking about suicides so as to advance an anti-gun agenda. We’ve seen it before.

We’re seeing it again. This time, it’s a proposed House resolution that kind of acts like it’s about coming together, but it’s not. That’s clear.

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26) held a press conference to announce the introduction of a resolution designating the second Tuesday in September, September 9, 2025, as National Firearm Suicide Prevention Day. This day will raise awareness about the growing firearm suicide crisis and underscore the lifesaving importance of safe firearm storage. It will also serve as an opportunity to mobilize and hear from health professionals, researchers, survivors, veterans, and mental health experts about the evidence-based role of safe storage in preventing firearm suicide.

“The epidemic of gun violence continues to plague communities across our nation and forever changes the lives of families who have lost someone to gun death. Too often, the role of firearms in suicide is overlooked,” said Congresswoman Brownley. “Suicide is preventable, and safe storage – locked, unloaded, and away from ammunition – can save lives by creating the time and distance that someone in crisis needs to pause and seek help. By recognizing National Firearm Suicide Prevention Day, we are bringing much needed awareness to this heartbreaking crisis and focusing on how to prevent firearm suicide to keep our children, families, veterans, and loved ones safe.”

Now, just reading that bit, you just kind of know that it’s going to be about gun control. After all, it focuses on guns more than mental health.

Then we get to this little bit:

“We have a firearm suicide crisis in our country. Seventy-four Americans use a gun to take their life every day and one in five of gun suicide victims are veterans. It doesn’t have to be this way. I remain committed to working with my colleagues in Congress to pass sensible legislation — from safe storage to red flag laws — to prevent firearm suicide and keep Americans safe and healthy,” said combat veteran and Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Chair Mike Thompson (CA-04).  

Also, there’s a quote from Kris Brown, the president of Brady, but absolutely nothing suggestive of actually trying to find common ground.

So let’s delve into things a bit. Thompson, a California Democrat, says we need mandatory storage laws and red flag laws. California has both of those. So does Oregon, just to the north. Meanwhile, California has a suicide rate of 10.4, and Oregon has one nearly twice as high.

That suggests that those laws aren’t really doing the heavy lifting, now, doesn’t it?

Now, we live in a world where everyone is offended by everything, and that’s supposed to dictate our own actions, which I reject. Saying something is offensive has become a punchline.

But this crap? This is legitimately offensive. 

This is politicians and activists leveraging a real issue that involves people suffering, people hurting, and seeing no other way out, and then try and push an agenda. It’s obvious none of these people give a damn about suicide. They don’t care about people who are hurting, who feel alone, who think the entire world would be better off without them.

I knew this because that “sensible legislation” Thompson talks about is the same “sensible legislation” they push for violent crime, mass shootings, and anything else they can come up with. It’s not about suicide. It’s not about the mental illness that drives people to that point. It’s about using those people to restrict our rights.

They don’t care about the suicides because they don’t look at any other cause of suicide. They aren’t advocating for mental health resources or anything else.

Nor are Brownley and Thompson acknowledging that the universal background check laws on the books in the state they represent keep people from handing guns over to friends when they realize they’re in a crisis. They can’t just call a buddy over to grab the guns and hold onto them for a few days or weeks until things pass. They can’t drop them off at their cousin’s for a week or two. They can’t do any of that.

So, these people sit there with an effective means to take their own life, and then if they do, these turdnuggets say the problem was that we didn’t have enough laws, rather than accept the fact that the laws they pushed and they want to push on the rest of us contributed to the problem in the first place.

I find all of that downright offensive, and I find it offensive that they’re posturing as if they’re the moral ones.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights, as this clearly shows.

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