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At least in the USA if you are shot and killed odds are much higher you committed suicide compared to getting shot by someone else.
by postalrat 7y ago
At least in the USA if you are shot and killed odds are much higher you committed suicide compared to getting shot by someone else.
- Proziam 7y agoEven according to 'anti-gun' sources you're about twice as likely to commit suicide with a firearm than to be a victim of a gun-related homicide. https://lawcenter.giffords.org/facts/gun-violence-statistics/ https://lawcenter.giffords.org/facts/gun-violence-statistics... All deaths are tragic, but given that violence overall has been falling for decades, at the same time that gun ownership is increasing, I find it difficult to attribute the violence to firearms rather than to social factors. I often think about how many of these deaths would be prevented if we took all the 'anti-gun' money and poured it into our health care system to support people with mental illnesses.