Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware

Pew Research Org ^ | May 24, 2013 | unknown

[epow]

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.

[epow]

Why isn't the national media at least mentioning these data that were gathered and published by the well respected Pew Research Center? Of course that's just a rhetorical question, we all know why.

[shalom aleichem]

ammo prices have risen

[TigersEye]

Public Unaware

Pat Caddell called it. Do you believe it yet?

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an “enemy of the people” Sept. 29, 2012(video 26:00)

Emotional Pat Caddell on the MSM ignoring Benghazi: “These people have no honor!” Oct. 27, 2012 (video at link 4:06)

The MSM are enemies of the people!

[epow]

People who are determined to end their own lives will use whatever means that are readily available to accomplish that end. If guns were to be somehow eliminated from the list of ways to kill one’s self, which is impossible of course, suicidal individuals would then simply use some other means that would still be available in order to accomplish their demise. For me the most surprising statistic mentioned in the article is that even in today’s US where guns are readily available to the great majority of American people far less than 1/2 of all homicides are committed with firearms of any type.

[epow]

Oops, I meant to say in my previous post that less than half of all suicides are committed with guns, not less than all homicides. Gimme a break, it's way past my bedtime and I'm half asleep already.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’m sure you can give yourself a break

[AlmaKing]

The Left will take this study and say guns need to be banned to prevent gun suicides

[Incorrigible]

I had an argument with a lib about this recently. Looking at the FBI statistics, the percentage of the population using a firearm to commit suicide has remained a constant 20% since the 80’s despite the rise and fall of other gun crimes during that time. So yes, using the “increasing use of guns for suicide”, he recommended more gun restrictions.

[Lockbar]

I am completely pro-gun. But I have also known 6 people that have committed suicide by firearms, 5 men, one woman. None were what I would have considered to be “gun people”. they were mostly casual gun owners, just one or two guns in their home. One took his life because of debilitating illness, 3 or 4 from depression, realizing things had taken a bad turning in their lives (drug addiction, business failure, divorce). The woman's suicide was the most strange. I talked to her on the phone just a week before she died, and sounded up-beat and fine. Another person who knew her much better than me said that she had a very complicated life. Still, nobody could figure that one out. Some peoples lives are so painful it doesn’t matter what they use to kill themselves. If it gets so bad that they are determined to kill themselves, any method most probably will be used.

[D Rider]

Isn't 1993, or there abouts, the time that the concealed carry movement started? Or am I off here?

[TYVets]

The map at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rtc.gif

Starts with the year 1986. Then each year after it shows as the states adopt conceal carry.

[D Rider]

That is a most excellent graphic.

[CPT Clay]

Bump

[Buffalo Head]

Thanks for this post.

[marktwain]

I consider 1994 to be the year that the concealed carry movement really took off.

That was the year that was peak for gun control, with the Clinton “assault weapon” ban, the Brady bill, and the Republican revolt that took over the House and the Senate in response.

[marktwain]

[gundog]

They’ve been harping on the increase in gun violence in PG-13 movies, of late. Too few real murders, I guess.