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Suicide divide of America: Whites five times more likely to kill themselves with a gun than blacks
Mail Online ^ | 25 March 2013 | Daily Mail Reporter

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; suicide; trends; urban
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To: Windflier

Obama’s solution:

ban guns so we can’t even kill ourselves. Forced to live in his new world order. yay...


41 posted on 03/26/2013 12:37:25 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: heartwood

of course! They have never been interested in saving lives.

The focus on guns is ENTIRELY out of fear that citizens may resist total control.

For example, maybe the state wants to kidnap your children and put them with a loyal socialist couple for proper indoctrination. The last thing they need is people realizing that they have no rights and nothing left to lose and plenty of guns/ammo.


42 posted on 03/26/2013 12:42:25 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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