lovmuffin -> RE: CDC and Firearms (12/19/2015 3:36:33 AM)
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ORIGINAL: epiphiny43 It's all propaganda till 'gun deaths' are separated into actual classes of events. Accidents, suicides, homicides, etc. High gun ownership states have higher accident and suicide rates by guns. DUH! Background checks help these?? Whether total suicide rate corresponds to gun ownership needs more study. The US has nothing like the suicide rates of several low gun ownership countries near the Arctic Circle, implying terrible weather is a bigger factor, along with alcohol use and cultural attitudes. These others are completely different problems than homicides, the area where background checks and close monitoring of gun sales and transfers may help. Last I remember, a number of US areas had more suicides by gun than homicides. Which isn't even close to stats from urban centers with low gun ownership and lots of low income neighborhood crime and drug gang wars that spike homicide rates. When intramural gang wars are separated out, US gun death numbers plummet. Not sure it's useful to even consider gun laws affecting a culture that is importing over $100,000,000,000 (Yes, Billions) of illegal drugs into the country yearly. If anyone really needed a lesson in the futility of restrictive laws, minus a massive cultural imperative to solve a problem, the Drug War is the poster child. We have the most imprisoned society ever seen on Earth, and the biggest drug problem in the First World, by a factor of about 10. If Hollywood spent a quarter of the effort against violence and drug use they spend promoting addictive products and commercial product placement in general, both the gun violence and the drug problems in the US would vanish. This is probably the most useful post on the last few pages of this thread. The gun grabbers can't seem to get past their utopian world view. It doesn't matter what you want to ban or restrictt, particularly drugs, not to mention alcohol or abortions. If there is a demand for it, restrictions will only exaserbate the problem.
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