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Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International Evidence
bepress Legal Repository ^
| 2007
| Gary A. Mauser, Simon Fraser University
Posted on 02/16/2008 6:55:11 PM PST by em2vn
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posted on
02/16/2008 6:55:15 PM PST
by
em2vn
To: All
Increases it, and I have yet to see a gun jump and kill someone .....
If a person really wanted kill themseleves or others, there are ways...
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posted on
02/16/2008 7:00:49 PM PST
by
Poetgal26
(God bless the US Military and our vets!)
To: em2vn
Japan has a higher per capita rate of suicide than the US does. Japan has essentially no personally owned firearms. Half of all US suicides are effected with guns. Half of all firearms related deaths in the US are suicides. If firearms were to magically disappear from the US, those who want to kill themselves would simply find other means to do so.
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posted on
02/16/2008 7:01:15 PM PST
by
RKV
(He who has the guns makes the rules)
To: em2vn
Let’s just make a law against murder and suicide. Oh wait, that’s been done.
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posted on
02/16/2008 7:01:27 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Take your ball - go home - sit this one out? Fifty years of liberal Supreme Court decisions? NO WAY.)
To: em2vn; Joe Brower
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posted on
02/16/2008 7:03:18 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: em2vn
It certainly doesn’t reduce government sponsored murder.
To: em2vn
First of all, the language used in treatises on guns should be clear. Banning firearms is a phrase that has dubious meaning. It does not mean “banning firearms,” it mean “attempting to ban firearms.”
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posted on
02/16/2008 7:08:55 PM PST
by
Rudder
To: Poetgal26
I don’t need a gun to kill someone. I just need to start thinking nasty thoughts and I’ll figure it out.
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posted on
02/16/2008 7:09:12 PM PST
by
Falcon4.0
To: em2vn
As I listen to top-of-the-hour ABCNN (and Fox) radio "news" I hear the MSM employees tirelessly report on the calls for gun control. "It's too easy to get guns! Too many guns!"
Yet, other than guns what is a common element in these shootings? Ans: Prescription drugs.
Absolutely, someone taking mind-altering drugs should not be able to legally buy guns. As for illegally buying guns.. well that's why they call them criminals.
What aspect of prescription drugs and guns is not common?
Advertising.
Thus rare mention of the advertisers' products.
Thus once again I must say, most employees of the MSM are skid marks on journalism's shorts.
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posted on
02/16/2008 7:14:29 PM PST
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: em2vn
Terrific paper. Thank you for posting it.
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posted on
02/16/2008 7:36:14 PM PST
by
devere
To: WilliamofCarmichael
Advertising. Thus rare mention of the advertisers' products.
Just wait for the brave pharmaceutical to give the warning:
Those taking _____ should not operate motor vehicles, machinary, or own guns.
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posted on
02/16/2008 7:39:06 PM PST
by
Bear_Slayer
(When liberty is outlawed only outlaws will have liberty.)
To: GOPJ
Well, the next logical step is warning labels on guns.
And other warning labels that tell people it is a crime to remove warning labels.
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posted on
02/16/2008 7:44:46 PM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: RKV
I once had a bumper sticker; “If they outlaw guns, can we use swords?” (Member of SCA back then).
England banned guns. Now, with some high profile murders with swords, they are thinking of banning swords ... and long knives, and bats ...
why not just ban murderers and dispose of them? It would be easier.
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posted on
02/16/2008 8:09:07 PM PST
by
tbw2
(Science fiction with real science - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
To: Eaker
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posted on
02/16/2008 8:18:11 PM PST
by
Eaker
(If illegal immigrants were so great for an economy; Mexico would be building a wall to keep them in)
To: Rudder
“——it means attempting to ban firearms—”
wrong-—it means banning law abiding citizens firearms while criminals and govenment keep theirs-
To: em2vn
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posted on
02/16/2008 8:42:18 PM PST
by
neverdem
(I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
To: RKV
If firearms were to magically disappear from the US, those who want to kill themselves would simply find other means to do so.Some years back I read a report that when Canada (or some Canadian city) banned handguns in an attempt to lower handgun suicides, the rate actually fell.
However, the rate of suicide by bridge-jumping went up, so that the overall suicide rate stayed the same.
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posted on
02/16/2008 8:53:55 PM PST
by
Oatka
(A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: cmotormac44
...it means banning law abiding citizens firearms while criminals and govenment keep theirs-You broke the liberal code---now you'll have to be terminated.
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posted on
02/16/2008 8:54:11 PM PST
by
Rudder
To: WilliamofCarmichael
We don't need Gun control, we need nut control. :)
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posted on
02/16/2008 9:08:40 PM PST
by
Shadowstrike
(Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
To: em2vn
Good post, saving, Thanks!
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posted on
02/16/2008 9:11:36 PM PST
by
enduserindy
(Living in Indy just got better! Ah Colts! Hi Mom! Vote for America! (I had to do it!))
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