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Half those deaths are suicides.
by matte_black 9y ago
Half those deaths are suicides.
- res0nat0r 9y agoThat still doesn't make the gun violence problem in the USA any better.
- thousandautumns 9y agoIt makes the risk of being shot by someone else a lot less than it appears to be when you use raw gun death statistics.
- matte_black 9y agoIt makes it exactly twice as better than the original statistic.
- res0nat0r 9y agoExcept the fact that gun homicides are still above and beyond every other first world country by far. https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistics/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistics/in...
- matte_black 9y agoBut still at a level most people can live with.
- tpush 9y agoExcept the people who died, that is.
- x14 9y ago2/3
- lopmotr 9y agoNon-suicidal people don't believe they'd kill themselves. But they still do later in life. Any of us might become mentally ill and do it one-day, making that statistic pretty relevant.
- matte_black 9y agoThat’s a personal problem though, not a problem for society at large.
- mercer 9y agoHow do you make that distinction? Serious question.