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Suicide divide of America: Whites five times more likely to kill themselves with a gun than blacks
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| 25 March 2013
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Posted on 03/25/2013 1:47:55 AM PDT by Windflier
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To: Windflier
The more we shut God out of our lives, the more likely we are to despair.
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posted on
03/25/2013 5:34:03 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: Windflier
That's racist! /sarc off/
To: Kevmo
Maybe there are 5 times more whites than blacks? C’mon, you can do ANYthing with figures.
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posted on
03/25/2013 6:09:44 AM PDT
by
ThePatriotsFlag
( EVERY DIME Obama Spends is given to him by the Republicans in the House.)
To: Haiku Guy
We need to ban high capacity magazines to cut the rate of suicide.
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HILARIOUS!!
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posted on
03/25/2013 6:18:21 AM PDT
by
octex
To: Windflier
Funny thing is, the people who tout this study as a reason why whites should be in favor of gun control, are five times as likely to favor right-to-die legislation as those who oppose more gun control.
To: Haiku Guy
We need to ban high capacity magazines to cut the rate of suicide.Ha!...HAHAHAHA!
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
03/25/2013 6:24:05 AM PDT
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: Windflier
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posted on
03/25/2013 6:43:03 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: Windflier
There are many, many complex factors that go into violent crime and guns death statistics. It’s all a very interesting topic to research, but I’ve noticed that taken in its totality, not in selectively-cut segments as we typically see in the news, is that the overall violent crime rates are not really affected one way or another by rates of private firearm ownership.
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posted on
03/25/2013 9:01:08 AM PDT
by
Free and Armed
(Playing leap frog with a unicorn and compromising with liberals--both have a similar end result)
To: Windflier
What I see is that whites kill themselves at about half the rate blacks kill each other. Those are the two most significant figures in the chart, and THAT should be the topic of wonder.
To: Windflier
I guess the Liberals would be happier if the suicidal jumped from windows instead.
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posted on
03/25/2013 10:35:53 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: Windflier
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posted on
03/25/2013 10:41:21 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Windflier
The liberal mindset would dictate that blacks need to catch up in the suicide by firearm department.
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posted on
03/25/2013 10:42:37 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Caipirabob
FreeRepublic: Va. man accidentally kills self with gun at party Yeah, I saw that story. Senseless...
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posted on
03/25/2013 11:19:33 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Countries with strict gun control laws have higher rates of suicide than those without. Interesting. Any analysis on why that is?
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posted on
03/25/2013 12:58:19 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Interesting. Any analysis on why that is? Yes.
It's in the peer-reviewed paper I linked to.
I suspect that countries with strict gun control are oppressive in many other ways, since government can do whatever it wants without fear of consequences from the peasants.
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posted on
03/25/2013 1:02:12 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: Free and Armed
...the overall violent crime rates are not really affected one way or another by rates of private firearm ownership. That sounds real to me.
When you think about it, it's the criminal class that is responsible for crime - therefore, why would the rate of gun ownership among the law-abiding affect what criminals do in any way?
One could say that there are liable to be less armed robberies and home invasions in areas where the populace is heavily armed, but that wouldn't necessarily affect other types of crime rates.
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posted on
03/25/2013 1:02:28 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I suspect that countries with strict gun control are oppressive in many other ways, since government can do whatever it wants without fear of consequences from the peasants. Makes total sense. Being in an environment where you're actively suppressed from having the means to resist your oppressors would tend to drive people into despair and hopelessness.
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posted on
03/25/2013 1:05:20 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Countries with strict gun control laws have higher rates of suicide than those without.
Given that the former Soviet countries tend to have the highest suicide rates and the strictest gun restrictions you might think so. The study, though, concludes that there's no hard correlation or relationship.
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posted on
03/25/2013 1:13:17 PM PDT
by
x
To: Windflier
Blacks are probably 50 times likely to use guns to murder other people.
So it is with freedom. Liberals are driving American-Americans crazy and they are killing themselves to get out of liberalism’s hell.
To: SaraJohnson
Blacks are probably 50 times likely to use guns to murder other people. US homicide statistics (broken down by race) do tend to back up the assertion that blacks (on average) commit more murders per capita than other racial groups, but the real numbers aren't even close to 50x.
Again, I do get your point.
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posted on
03/25/2013 3:37:02 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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