Posted on 09/03/2008 6:58:42 PM PDT by neverdem
From memory; Murders by firearm and suicides by firearm are about the same percentage.
Looks like these dweebs could use a critique of their poorly researched article.
David Hemenway, PhD
Director, Email: hemenway@hsph.harvard.edu
Matthew Miller, MD, MPH, ScD
Associate Director, Harvard Injury Control Research Center Email: mmiller@hsph.harvard.edu
These stupid b@$t@rds don't seem to know about the studies that have been published that it's WILL POWER that causes the suicide, not the instrument. Guns don't CAUSE suicide, they're an instrument of suicide. Scientists who don't understand cause and effect? Sure glad none of these G-d D@mned idiots are my physician. Or, as you put it:
In gun-free Japan, the per-capita suicide rate is several times that of America.
Bang List ping
I realize things have got to be pretty rough for a person to take their own life, but I tend to get a bit angry with folks who use a gun.
I know two brothers who did this about 15 years apart. Both had families and both shot themselves in their homes. This leaves a horrible visual scene for their families to discover. One of the brothers laid out a sheet, sat down on it and shot himself in the head. He must have watched too much TV and thought he’d have just a tiny hole and maybe a pool of blood, but in reality, he did have a tiny little hole at the entrance and a huge gaping exit hole where it blew bone, skin and brain matter all over the walls for his family to clean up.
Thanks for the addies.
“People shouldn’t be allowed to kill themselves. That is practicing medicine without a license!”
I am pretty sure that more than 46 murders AND more than 46 rapes are prevented by the potential victim packing heat. And that does not even factor in would be assaults, cougar and bear attacks (especially jogging in California). Thus by the harm NOT committed, guns should be kept.
Thanks for the links.
From Medscape Today (date unknown):
“SUICIDE
The overall physician suicide rate cited by most studies has been between 28 and 40 per 100,000, compared with the overall rate in the general population of 12.3 per 100,000.[1] Overall, then, physicians are more than twice as likely as the general population to kill themselves. Each year, it would take the equivalent of 1 to 2 average-sized graduating classes of medical school to replace the number of physicians who kill themselves. This rate appears higher than among other professionals.[2]”
Perhaps the JAMA should examine their own problems.
Doctors kill people.
THE QUITTER
When you’re lost in the Wild, and you’re scared as a child,
And Death looks you bang in the eye,
And you’re sore as a boil, it’s according to Hoyle
To cock your revolver and . . . die.
But the Code of a Man says: “Fight all you can,”
And self-dissolution is barred.
In hunger and woe, oh, it’s easy to blow . . .
It’s the hell-served-for-breakfast that’s hard.
“You’re sick of the game!” Well, now, that’s a shame.
You’re young and you’re brave and you’re bright.
“You’ve had a raw deal!” I know — but don’t squeal,
Buck up, do your damnedest, and fight.
It’s the plugging away that will win you the day,
So don’t be a piker old pard!
Just draw on your grit; it’s so easy to quit:
It’s the keeping-your-chin-up that’s hard.
It’s easy to cry that you’re beaten — and die;
It’s easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to fight and to fight when hope’s out of sight —
Why, that’s the best game of them all!
And though you come out of each gruelling bout,
All broken and beaten and scarred,
Just have one more try — it’s dead easy to die,
It’s the keeping-on-living that’s hard.
Robert Service, 1907
She backed down immediately.
This was “debunked” years ago. Why hasn’t this guy done his homework?
Naw, I've been doing that fer years and it hasn't worked yet!
This journal has for a very long time as a matter of editorial policy been pro-actively opposed to our exercise of the rights secured under the Second Amendment.
Let's convert those typed NUMBERS to digits: between 33.3% & 80%.
With that large a variance, at the beginning of the study, the rest must be, at least, 46.7% JUNK.
The gun store I frequent has had a lot of new customers come in for a hand gun. Many say it’s because they aren’t sure the next president will allow such purchases. They want one now while the purchase is still allowed.
Allowed? A Constitutional right is a right above a law and a government. Infringement of the right is a call to tell those who would govern us to back off.
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