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So, a 14 year old having access unsupervised to a chat bot is the problem, but the fact he had access to a gun to shoot himself was halfway through the article and described as his five year old brother "hearing the gunshot".

"Man bites dog" as Terry Pratchett put it in "Times".

And to explain to more literal folk here... A 14 year old having access to a gun is FUCKING INSANE

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The gun is why you’re hearing about this. It meant he succeeded. If he’d eaten a bunch of his dad’s left over pain killers and gone to the hospital it may not have made the national news.

Context is everything.

A typical 14 year old city boy? Yes.

A 14 year old raised in the country who was taught gun safety as part of learning how to hunt at 10? He's already way ahead of most adults with access to a gun.

He was way ahead. Q.E.D. as per the article.

What was absent, apparently, was gun safes and appropriate supervision.

Suicide by hunting rifles doesn’t sound very easy, I bet this was a handgun instead.

Both are concerns; responsibility for this sort of thing is rarely entirely on one party.

The AI chatbot suggested that he should try to create a plan to kill himself.

I mean, yes. We're talking about the US, after all, the only free country in the Western world that explicitly defines liberty as a function of gun violence in its Constitution. Access to guns is never the problem. It can never be the problem and it will never be the problem. It must never be the problem.

>explicitly defines liberty as a function of gun violence in its Constitution

That's not what it says or means. The right to keep and bear arms is explicity for self defence which is to prevent violence and protect.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

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