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Posted on 04/11/2023 7:32:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Nearly one in five adults in the US say they have a relative who was killed by a gun, a disturbing new study revealed Tuesday.
The troubling statistic included death by suicide, according to the report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A similar amount – 21 percent – of respondents said they had been personally threatened with a gun.
The study also found that people of color were disproportionately impacted by gun violence, with three in 10 black adults and one-fifth of Hispanic respondents saying they have witnessed someone being shot.
Thirty-four percent of black adults reported having a family member who was killed by a firearm, or two times the share of white adults who said the same.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
They didn’t mention that about 2% of the population commits almost 60% of the murders and that murders are far more prevalent in large cities with high density populations of blacks and Latinos. And that blacks are overwhelmingly targeted by other blacks.
Yep, you can have a physician assisted suicide, you just can’t use a gun.
Really?
How many were killed because of Fentanyl?
I know people who have died from fentanyl, but no one killed by someone using a gun.
I don’t know off-hand what “debi downer” means.
One who brings people down mentally.
Of that 1 in 5…. How many of those guns were purchased LAWFULLY????
Yes, the Paradox of Zeno has a beneficial impact for society.
I have a cousin who killed himself and I never once had the urge to blame his gun. I blamed the evil woman he married who killed herself on the one year anniversary of his death because in her evil brain, it was always about her.
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Since a “family” would be at least 4-5 people - that would mean, on average every FAMILY would have had one member killed by a gun.
The text does not match the headline.
Nearly one in five adults in the US say they have a relative who was killed by a gun, a disturbing new study revealed Tuesday.They are clearly using the word family as an extended family meaning.
Skimmed the underlying study. Doesn’t seem to define ‘family’ at all nor does it specify how recently so can’t properly define any denominator. Personally I can think of two such. Mom’s first cousin was shot dead by her husband in 1950s, before I was born. My second cousin, also on Mom’s side, was briefly made national news in 1970s when, as a nursing professor, she was shot dead in her classroom by a male student.
Thanks.
TOTAL BS!!!!
I knew a kid in H.S. that somehow or another shot himself.
I came close to pulling my pistol on a dude...a few years ago.
This is an absolute lie.
If the study includes friends, political opponents, professional associates, witnesses to your crimes and those about to testify against you, HILLARYous might be brining up the averages enough to make this believable
Killed by a gun
No
Die by a gun which includes suicide by gun, yes.
Even considering for "extended relatives" its a BS statistic. approx 1 person per every 16,550 Americans is murdered with a gun (not suicide)
For every "1 in 5" people to know an extended family member killed with a gun, such a person would, on average, need to know about 3300 just in their family.
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