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Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

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11. Gun control advocates only ever express concern about suicide when guns are involved...

Reply to sarisataka (Reply #8)

Fri Feb 26, 2016, 08:21 PM

Feb 2016

...and ignore it in countries whose gun laws they admire. Japan and Canada are the most
obvious examples.

The disinterested reader is invited to explore the links to be found at the following:

https://www.google.com/search?q=suicide+rates+worldwide%2C+by+country&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

...where they will note that some otherwise quite pleasant-seeming countries have higher
suicide rates that the supposedly 'gun-addled' US...

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From the CDC... [View all] beevul Feb 2016 OP

Banning guns because of shootings... discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2016 #1

But anonymous internet posters sarisataka Feb 2016 #2

That' strange as they list: All firearm deaths Number of deaths: 33,636 jmg257 Feb 2016 #3

Keyword being 'cause'. N/T beevul Feb 2016 #4

Ah - gotcha. "Shooting" is only mentioned once in the whole report. jmg257 Feb 2016 #5

Also from the CDC russ1943 Feb 2016 #6

"Objectionable" beevul Feb 2016 #7

An attempt to enlighten a gun enthusiast is futility defined. russ1943 Feb 2016 #9

Would it somehow be better if gun suicides used other methods to do themselves in... friendly_iconoclast Feb 2016 #10

"An attempt to enlighten a gun enthusiast is futility defined." pablo_marmol Feb 2016 #12

Reading is fundamental, russel. beevul Feb 2016 #14

warped jimmy the one Mar 2016 #17

"Gun control advocates only ever express concern about suicide when guns are involved" friendly_iconoclast Mar 2016 #18

So much bla bla bla, so little substance. beevul Mar 2016 #19

re your repugnant position jimmy the one Mar 2016 #20

Repugnant only to those that presume they have some binding interest in the lives of others. beevul Mar 2016 #21

Here's some "futility" from Webster's def. of "epidemic"... Eleanors38 Mar 2016 #15

+1. You have demonstrated that pious fraud is part and parcel of gun control advocacy friendly_iconoclast Mar 2016 #16

Strangely when Europe looks at US firearm deaths sarisataka Feb 2016 #8

Gun control advocates only ever express concern about suicide when guns are involved... friendly_iconoclast Feb 2016 #11

That's NRA TALKING POINTS™ virginia mountainman Feb 2016 #13