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To: familyop

Drug deaths are voluntary. You decide to take the drugs. Few auto crash deaths or gun deaths are suicide.


2 posted on 11/06/2015 11:33:29 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

And ... The point is??????


4 posted on 11/06/2015 11:37:51 AM PST by JayAr36 (How much more corruption will we willing to take from the Washington???????)
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To: JimRed
Actually 21,175 gun deaths are suicide.
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6 posted on 11/06/2015 11:38:41 AM PST by Gamecock (Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
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To: JimRed

There were 19,392 firearm-related suicides in the U.S. in 2010. The U.S. Department of Justice reports that approximately 60% of all adult firearm deaths are by suicide, 61% more than deaths by homicide.

Gun violence in the United States - Wikipedia, the ...


8 posted on 11/06/2015 11:39:43 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: JimRed

Suicides by gun accounted for about six of every 10 firearm deaths in 2010 and just over half of all suicides, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Since the CDC began publishing data in 1981, gun suicides have outnumbered gun homicides. But as gun homicides have declined sharply in recent years, suicides have become a greater share of all firearm deaths: the 61% share in 2010 was the highest on record. That year there were 19,392 suicides by firearm compared to 11,078 homicides by gun (35% of all firearm deaths). The rest were accidents, police shootings and unknown causes.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/05/24/suicides-account-for-most-gun-deaths/


16 posted on 11/06/2015 11:47:29 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: JimRed

gun deaths are suicide.

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About half the gun deaths are suicide


33 posted on 11/06/2015 2:38:42 PM PST by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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