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Deep13

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29. source?

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 02:36 AM

Feb 2013

I mean for the data.

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This just knocked my socks off!!!! [View all] busterbrown Feb 2013 OP

Something has to be done. No question.. one_voice Feb 2013 #1

Mostly suicides, I was surprised to learn. NYC_SKP Feb 2013 #2

murders are about 1/3 of gun deaths BainsBane Feb 2013 #4

The bills can be painful nobodyspecial Feb 2013 #13

bills sometimes BainsBane Feb 2013 #15

Tobbaco has killed more in less than five years. geckosfeet Feb 2013 #3

AND WE DID SOMETHING ABOUT SMOKING Skittles Feb 2013 #5

Yeah. How did that work out? geckosfeet Feb 2013 #6

actually rather well dsc Feb 2013 #16

THANK YOU Skittles Feb 2013 #22

Gun ownership is quite different from gun nuttery. geckosfeet Feb 2013 #34

Also gun shot victims die young BainsBane Feb 2013 #19

How about beef. Blanks Feb 2013 #37

If you nourish yourself off your gun BainsBane Feb 2013 #38

You've got me all wrong. Blanks Feb 2013 #40

The FDA has been working on that for decades bhikkhu Feb 2013 #41

Unfortunately, nutritional guidelines seem to be decided... Blanks Feb 2013 #42

VERY WELL!!! Skittles Feb 2013 #20

10 times more people die of tobacco related causes than gun related causes every year. geckosfeet Feb 2013 #35

Okay BainsBane Feb 2013 #39

It most certainly is the case. And I can walk into any store and buy ciggies. geckosfeet Feb 2013 #43

you do not seem to get it Skittles Feb 2013 #44

Yeah, thanks a lot. My cigarettes now cost an arm and leg due to the anti-smoking nuts. Tx4obama Feb 2013 #9

Anti-smoking nuts? nobodyspecial Feb 2013 #14

I really, truly hope this is satire Skittles Feb 2013 #21

I'm one of those 840high Feb 2013 #25

If you need to smoke that badly SwankyXomb Feb 2013 #31

Apples and oranges. GoneOffShore Feb 2013 #7

So is comparing war deaths to other types of deaths. geckosfeet Feb 2013 #8

I just love fail. GoneOffShore Feb 2013 #11

nah; actually, that would be you Skittles Feb 2013 #23

Wow Orrex Feb 2013 #27

Go ahead, expalin. geckosfeet Feb 2013 #32

especially when you don't want people to know BainsBane Feb 2013 #24

Public knowledge is a good thing. geckosfeet Feb 2013 #33

This was the subject of my thesis Bjornsdotter Feb 2013 #10

What if we included all the deaths due to guns from the Revolutionary war on? Kalidurga Feb 2013 #12

Also consider that most deaths in the civil war were from disease, not combat. progressoid Feb 2013 #17

Good point... Kalidurga Feb 2013 #18

Interesting stats 2naSalit Feb 2013 #28

Even in later wars -freezing in a trench in WWI or II. Dysentary, starvation, malaria etc. geckosfeet Feb 2013 #36

Thanks buster for the graphic to put gun violence in perspective... here's another graphic Cha Feb 2013 #26

source? Deep13 Feb 2013 #29

Previous thread from Thursday: ManiacJoe Feb 2013 #30

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