Posted on 03/25/2013 1:47:55 AM PDT by Windflier
Gun deaths in the U.S. are divided by race with white people more likely to commit suicide with a firearm while an African-American individual is more likely to be shot and killed by someone else.
A white person is five times as likely to kill themselves with a gun than be shot by another person, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
However for each African-American who commits suicide, five others are shot dead by another.
Gun deaths in American cities are more likely to be murders whereas predominantly gun deaths in rural areas are suicides.
The African-American community are stronger supporters of stricter gun control policy than the white population.
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Maybe there are 5 times more whites than blacks? C’mon, you can do ANYthing with figures.
We need to ban high capacity magazines to cut the rate of suicide.
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HILARIOUS!!
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.
Ha!...HAHAHAHA!
FMCDH(BITS)
WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE MURDER AND SUICIDE?, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Volume 30, Number 2, Spring 2007 (pp. 649-694)
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.
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.
I guess the Liberals would be happier if the suicidal jumped from windows instead.
The liberal mindset would dictate that blacks need to catch up in the suicide by firearm department.
Yeah, I saw that story. Senseless...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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