Something about this study is unsettling. I predict/suspect/respect/prespect that this finding will be nullified. This is suicide contrasted with murder, apples & oranges.
We need to ban high capacity magazines to cut the rate of suicide.
And, blacks are five times more likely to kill whites than the other way round.
Perhaps they've had more range time and don't miss as frequently ;-)
Well, of course. Obama’s people are hardwired to kill whitey with guns, not themselves.
Well I don’t know about this before Obama was elected, but after, I completely believe it.
Kind of flips this “Self Esteem” argument on its head if whites are three times as likely to kill themselves, versus blacks.
Maybe blacks kids are capable, after all, of handling someone telling them that they are WRONG when they add 2+2 and get 5.
One interesting stat: The white firearm-related homicide rate, at 1.5 per 100,000, is roughly the same as the overall homicide rate in Western Europe. Undoubtedly its probably around 2.0 if you add in all causes, but it clearly proves something that we’ve been saying for years: there’s no real ‘gun violence’ problem throughout most of the country.
It would also be interesting to know what the AGE of greatest percentage of white suicides was. My guess would be it is elderly people with terminal diseases.
This issue was first raised in the Washington Post. And rather than go into detail on the obvious issue of black gun deaths, the paper went on at length to talk about suicide.
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.
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.
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.