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Gun Control & RKBA

guillaumeb

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29. From the CDC

Reply to gejohnston (Reply #18)

Thu Oct 15, 2015, 02:24 PM

Oct 2015

Number of homicides in 2013: 16,121

Number of gun homicides in 2013: 11,208.

That works out to approximately 66% of all homicides being committed with a gun.

Number of suicides in 2013: 41,149

Number of gun suicides in 2013: 21,175.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm (This is my source for both sets of numbers)

So guns were used to kill 37,296 people in 2013. My number of 30,000 gun deaths was an average, but the actual number is higher. Your post makes it look like guns deaths are les than they actually are. Interesting. Also interesting is that you provided no source for your numbers.

That said, I agree with you about the war on drugs. Like Prohibition, it merely criminalizes behavior and encourages criminal competition.

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Buying a gun for protection is usually for the mathmatically challenged [View all] Quixote1818 Oct 2015 OP

Given the astronomical amounts that are wagered each year, guillaumeb Oct 2015 #1

Owned by frightened citizens? GGJohn Oct 2015 #6

I did not say every gun owner. guillaumeb Oct 2015 #7

Maybe he just read your comment here and extrapolated from that. stone space Oct 2015 #20

If you are going to use statistics, Snobblevitch Oct 2015 #2

however, the writer fails to cite the gejohnston Oct 2015 #3

K&R libodem Oct 2015 #4

Nonsense. Kang Colby Oct 2015 #5

And what of the studies that show that households with guns guillaumeb Oct 2015 #8

you mean studies that show that there are more gejohnston Oct 2015 #9

First, we should combine these two posts and save time. guillaumeb Oct 2015 #10

So "eliminating the object" is your goal? virginia mountainman Oct 2015 #11

It's never about saving lives, y'notice that? It's always a gun-boner. Like they have a fetish... nt Decoy of Fenris Oct 2015 #12

My goal, and it should be the goal of everybody, guillaumeb Oct 2015 #13

That is my goal as well.. virginia mountainman Oct 2015 #14

The obvious follow up question is: guillaumeb Oct 2015 #15

out of the 30K gejohnston Oct 2015 #18

From the CDC guillaumeb Oct 2015 #29

I used last years FBI figures gejohnston Oct 2015 #31

Understood on the numbers. Agreed on "progress". guillaumeb Oct 2015 #32

So anything that kills 30,000 people annually is open? Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #25

there are two sides of the ledger gejohnston Oct 2015 #17

Simple solution that ignores complexity of overall issue beardown Oct 2015 #24

Your post was thoughtful and not at all insulting. guillaumeb Oct 2015 #30

Yes. beardown Oct 2015 #35

Agreed. And like the DUI example, a nice analogy by the way, guillaumeb Oct 2015 #36

It's complicated, bro. Kang Colby Oct 2015 #16

Please see responses 35 and 36. eom guillaumeb Oct 2015 #37

Odds. Straw Man Oct 2015 #19

Thanks anyway, I trust myself more than your stats. ileus Oct 2015 #21

...Hemenway... discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2015 #22

Probability and Stats sure takes the mystery out of gambling beardown Oct 2015 #23

What about gamblers who can count the cards in a shoe? Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #26

I didn't read the rest of the post beyond the title.. But really??? darkangel218 Oct 2015 #27

I actually won't trash this thread. darkangel218 Oct 2015 #28

It is an unfortunate that some "liberals" use a presumed intellectual prowess... Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #33

Yes. I've always found it strange ... Straw Man Oct 2015 #34