06-11-2013, 01:49 PM
|
 |
Renaissances Dude
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Redwood City, CA
Posts: 36,248
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Air&Road
I hadn't seen that. It's a great idea. Single Mom's deserve to be able to protect themselves as well as everyone else.
It's a stupid argument to say that it will allow people to commit suicide. For someone who actually WANTS to commit suicide is a gun the ONLY way that they can accomplish it? I wonder what percentage of suicides are committed with a gun? As if it made any difference. How stupid!
|
FASTSTATS - Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury
The CDC says that of approx 38K suicides, around half are committed with a gun.
Also:
Quote:
|
In 2010, the last year for which complete numbers are available, the number of gun deaths by suicide in the United States outnumbered homicides 19,392 to 11,078. If you add up all American gun deaths that year, including accidents, 3 out of 5 people who died from gunshot wounds took their own lives. Those figures are not an anomaly: With just a few exceptions, the majority of gun deaths in the United States have been self-inflicted every year since at least 1920. This is a startling fact, and one that forces us to realize that, no matter what we may believe about the Second Amendment, the debate over how to reduce the death toll from guns is, to a great extent, a debate about suicide prevention.
|
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/01/20/the-gun-toll-ignoring-suicide/xeWBHDHEvvagfkRlU3CfZJ/story.html
__________________
Te futueo et caballum tuum
1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K
|