[Paul Atreides]

She said gun control is an important step toward preventing suicide.

She's correct. No one EVER commits suicide by hanging themselves, overdosing on drugs, jumping off of a building, slitting the wrists, etc. I hate that her brother committed suicide, but she needs to quit being such a ditz.

[Coleus]

I used to work on an ambulance squad and I never had a suicide case with a gun. Hanging, walking in front of a train, OD on prescription pills, slit wrists, and I think that's about it.

[Oztrich Boy]

She said gun control is an important step toward preventing suicide.

It works so well in Japan

[freepatriot32]

Fact: According to the National Safety Council's 1997 Accidental Fact Book, firearm misuse causes only a small number of accidental deaths in the U.S.   For example, compared to accidental death from firearms, you are:

• Eight times as likely to suffocate on a swallowed object

• Sixteen times more likely to be poisoned

• 17 times more likely to die falling

• And 54 times more likely to die in an automobile accident

 

Fact: According to the Center for Disease Control, in 1996, there were only 21 accidental gun deaths for children under age 15. About twice as many children under the age of ten die from drowning in bathtubs.

 

Fact: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, and the National Spa and Pool Institute, In 1993, there were 1,334 drowning and 528 firearm-related accidental deaths from ages 0-19. Firearms outnumber pools by a factor of over 30:1. Thus, the risk of drowning in a pool is nearly 100 times higher than from a firearm-related accident for everyone, and nearly 500 times for ages 0-5.

2000 United States
Unintentional Injuries
All Ages, All Races, Both Sexes
Total Deaths: 97,900 (Source:  Center for Disease Control)

Cause of Death	Number of Deaths		Percentage of Deaths
1. MV Traffic	41,994		42.9%
2. Fall	13,322		13.6%
3. Poisoning	12,757		13.0%
4. Unspecified	6,673		6.8%
5. Suffocation	5,648		5.8%
6. Fire/burn	3,487		3.6%
7. Drowning	3,482		3.6%
8. Natural/ Environment	1,643		1.7%
9. Other Transport	1,413		1.4%
10. Other Land Transport	1,412		1.4%
11. Pedestrian, Other	1,272		1.3%
12. Other Spec., classifiable	1,238		1.3%
13. Struck by or Against	938		1.0%
14. Other Spec., NECN	903		0.9%
15.  Firearm	776		0.8%
16. Machinery	676		0.7%
17.  Pedal cyclist, Other	168		0.2%
18. Cut/pierce	85		0.1%
19. Overexertion	13		0.0%
Total Deaths	97,900

 

Fact: Medical mistakes kill 400,000 people per year – about one fully loaded jumbo jet crash per day – or about 286 times the rate of all accidental firearm deaths. This translates into 1 in 6 doctors causing an accidental death, and 1 in 56,666 gun owners doing the same.

 

Fact: Around 2,000 patients each year – six per day – are accidentally killed or injured in hospitals by registered nurses.

[JohnnyZ]

No one EVER commits suicide by hanging themselves, overdosing on drugs, jumping off of a building

"Cornell University = Suicide School" Alert!

[lawdude]

"She said gun control is an important step toward preventing suicide."

I wonder what would have happened in NYC earlier this week? Since they have all sorts of GUN CONTROL (what ever the hell that is) the shooter shouldn't, no... couldn't have had a gun in the first place. But since that was obviously not the case, what would have happened if the cop had not been allowed a weapon?

Oh, only the police can have guns? Ya...sure. Does the term dictatorship ring a familar note?

[MarkL]

She's correct. No one EVER commits suicide by hanging themselves, overdosing on drugs, jumping off of a building, slitting the wrists, etc. I hate that her brother committed suicide, but she needs to quit being such a ditz.

And given the fact that nobody ever commits suicide in Japan, that being a utopia for gun banners...

Mark

FWIW, the last time I checked, the suicide rate in Japan is more than double that for the US, and one of the highest in the world.

[lndrvr1972]

If someone wants to commit suicide they and are serious about it they will do anything to do it, IE driving their car into a tree,persciption drugs or hanging. To blame the gun industry is crazy.

[ought-six]

"I hate that her brother committed suicide, but she needs to quit being such a ditz."

I don't. I have no sympathy whatsoever for a suicide.