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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Just a reminder - Guns kill 31,000 Americans each year [View all]Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)36. How about them crazy bathtubs, the real killers?
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I think a peron commiting suicide would think twice if he didn't have a gun handy. Slicing ones
demosincebirth
May 2012
#5
Silly hack89, don't you realize non-gun suicide victims aren't as dead as gun suicide victims?
friendly_iconoclast
May 2012
#28
So education, poverty and access to mental health care are the same in each state?
hack89
May 2012
#29
In Japan, the non-gun suicide rate is higher than *all* our murder and suicide rates combined
friendly_iconoclast
May 2012
#30
At least when you take an over-dose of pain killers to commit suicide you have time to
demosincebirth
May 2012
#49
Who knows how many have changed their mind before hanging themselves or jumping in front of
demosincebirth
May 2012
#69
Why do you vastly understate the death toll from alcohol? Why ignore the death toll from drugs?
hack89
May 2012
#13
Drugs are illegal in most other countries as well. The big difference is gun availability.
DanTex
May 2012
#19
Seems to be bright lines between accidents (a few hundred) and murder and suicide, which split the
AtheistCrusader
May 2012
#31
You saw Japanese bathtub deaths as "very reflective of the gun control attitude in America"
Starboard Tack
May 2012
#43
Not so. It's the price we all pay when fools use firearms around other people.
Starboard Tack
May 2012
#41
You are suggesting that a responsible person can predict when he might need his firearm ...
spin
May 2012
#84