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Originally Posted by bssb
214 unintentional
1,078 suicides
1,990 homicides
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Of these 3 here....
214 unintentional ...a lot of these probably attributed to lack of knowledge in how to handle fire-arms. I had this discussion with my wife (who is Hugely Anti-Firearm) when I signed my son up for an NRA safety course and his Rifle Merit badge. I told her that at some point in his life he is going to have exposure to firearms and I would rather he knows what to do with it than to just sit there and fumble around trying to figure it out....she couldn't argue that Logic.
1,078 suicides....If somebody wants to kill themselves they are going to do it, whether it be by Gun, Pills, Jumping off a building, Hanging themselves....or sitting through an Oprah Marathon.
1,990 homicides....I would guess that 95% of these were done by people who weren't legally allowed to own a gun anyways in the 1st place...so tightening restrictions and laws will make absolutely no difference in this category because the same bad element will still get and own illegal guns. and people are also stabbed, poisoned, run down, and beaten to death.