It might not be a valid assumption that if a gun wasn’t available, the individual would just have used another method...but I’d venture to say it will be true much of the time.
“Gun deaths”
I didn’t know guns could die.
The left creates disaster and blames everything on their enemies. Drug addiction, mental illness, random violence, earthquakes, even the weather. It’s actually kind of brilliant if you think about. It depends on human stupidity, which can never can be under estimated .
So how many people are killed by automobiles and trains and such. How many people are killed by drugs and by medical prescriptions? This guy is drawing conclusions from a small sector of the problem.
Back in 50’s and 60’s, garden hose and an exhaust pipe on the car was the go to way.
How many were killed by other objects? By MALPRACTICE? Many Intractable Pain Patients are chosing Suicide now that the Feds and states have taken pain meds away.
Street Junkies NOT RULE! To H with the sick and crippled. HITLER would approve.
That’s about 3% of the number of abortions
As well as the same % of those dying from homosexual-origin AIDS and related causes
CDC did the same thing with accidental OD’s lumped patients in with Junkies. Then Lied about the number of scripts being written.
There was a time when Steve Chapman was sane, and made sense, although it’s been a long time.
The increase in Suicides is 3.9% due to Intractable Pain patients being cut off pain meds. While Street Junkies are now the preferred creatures to over $8.5 Billion, that does not count the money in things like the Farm Bill or other spending bills that is hidden.
“Gun deaths in US reach highest level in nearly 40 years,...”
And the 1968 Gun Control Law, which was supposed to stop this, was passed fifty years ago. What Happened!
Strange. The page with Johnson’s remarks on signing the bill into law has disappeared from the Internet.
The simple explanation for rising suicide rates is our aging population. Years ago Time magazine did a major piece on “Death by Gun” during a set period; I read the back story on each death, tabulated the results, and analyzed them. Of course, Time had an anti-gun spin. Then as now, the majority were suicides. Of those, 95% were elderly men, with major health problems of their own or of their spouse. In many cases, elderly men killed their terminally ill wives, and then themselves. Next most numerous were what appeared to be criminals, shot by each other, by their intended victims, by the police, by gang rivals. Lots of girlfriends, wives, and exes are murdered. Some general murders, and victims shot during robberies. A few supposed accidents and the odd hired killing.
I have a problem conflating people who don't want to die (murder victims) with people who want to die (suicides).
Japan has essentially no guns in civilian hands, and has a higher suicide rate than the US.
Removing the suicide numbers, if the number of “gun deaths” is 90-95% criminals and gang bangers killing each other, I have no problem with it. But I have a feeling that 90-95% includes more than just a few innocents.
p>I live next to a big railroad bridge. My first wife’s father helped build it. Over the years there have been a few suicides who jumped from it. All men, so far as I know, but no other common factors. I’m not suicidal, but if I were, that would probably be my choice.