[geeks] [rescue] Guns - what are they good for? - was Re: TME and Apple II and other Drive emulator questions.

[Lionel Peterson]

According to the Pew Research Center, about 6 out of every 10 gun
deaths in America are classified as suicide. Taking guns out of the
hands of suicidal people won't prevent them from killing themselves,
it will force them to be a bit more inventive about their final act.

Half of all suicides are by gunshot according to the same report.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/05/24/suicides-account-for-most-gun-deaths/

Compared to Canada, where nearly half of all suicides are by hanging (
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-624-x/2012001/article/chart/11696-02-chart2-eng.htm
).

Canadians apparently off themselves at a rate of about 11.5 per
100,000 each year, where as in America we are slightly worse at about
12 per 100,000 per year (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate ).



On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
> On 05/15/14 09:31, sammy ominsky wrote:
>> Someone wrote:
>>
>>>> a lot of dead kids and toddlers for no particularly good reason.
>>
>> Can you define "a lot"?  I know it happens, but I believe it's less often than
>> you might think.
>
> Propaganda aside, the number is FAR fewer than die every year as a
> result of accidents involving *each of* bicycles, swimming pools,
> skateboards, and bathtubs.  Not to mention fires and accidental
> poisonings.  A common trick of gun control organizations is to use a
> definition of "child" that includes adults up to 22, 23, even 26 years
> of age, because doing so allows them to reclassify deaths in inner-city
> drug-gang turf wars - which is to say, more than two thirds of all
> firearm homicides in the US - as "child deaths".
>
>
> "A word means what I want it to mean; nothing more, and nothing less."
>
>
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