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In reply to the discussion: FiveThirtyEight has a piece titled "Gun Deaths in America" [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)49. You have been repeatedly check-mated in this argument. Did you know...
The Japanese commit suicide at a rate 50% higher than in the U.S.? Since guns in Japan are as available as a cold Pepsi on the Plain of Jars, people there select hanging and jumping from high places as the most popular means. Therefore, since ropes and skyscrapers are in short supply in the U.S., one can reasonably expect domestic suicide rates to drop to insignificance should a GunBan© be enacted here.
And the hits just keep on coming.
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Any solution that does not include limitations and restrictions of access to the common element
morningfog
Jul 2016
#1
Only marginally so. But you proved the larger point: gun accessibility is the real problem.
morningfog
Jul 2016
#26
Oh! The wrongness! I live where Heroin, Cocaine, and meth are available and cheap...
Eleanors38
Jul 2016
#43
Their suicide problem is acceptable, then? Since they don't use guns? Hey, Zeus Christy.
Eleanors38
Jul 2016
#52
Remove all homicides by firearm and the US still has a homicide rate higher than most European ...
Statistical
Jul 2016
#28
An absolute prohibition on the manufacture, sale, transportation, possession and sale
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2016
#39
I wonder of the 66% who shot themselves to death, how many would have been effective in
morningfog
Jul 2016
#18