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    Default Half of gun deaths are suicides

    Jun 30, 9:18 PM EDT

    Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides

    By MIKE STOBBE
    AP Medical Writer


    ATLANTA (AP) -- The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun owners use the weapons on themselves.

    Suicides accounted for 55 percent of the nation's nearly 31,000 firearm deaths in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    There was nothing unique about that year - gun-related suicides have outnumbered firearm homicides and accidents for 20 of the last 25 years. In 2005, homicides accounted for 40 percent of gun deaths. Accidents accounted for 3 percent. The remaining 2 percent included legal killings, such as when police do the shooting, and cases that involve undetermined intent.

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    This shouldn't be surprising ,.. this has been going on for as long as gun-love has existed.

    This also shouldn't be surprising ...



    SEVENTY-ONE PERCENT OF ALL FIREARM RELATED DEATHS IN WEST VIRGINIA .. WHERE THEY AREN'T CLINGING TO GOD AND GUNS BECAUSE THEY'RE "BITTER" .. THEY'RE BLOWING THEIR FUCKING HEADS OFF BECAUSE THEY'RE BITTER.

    SEVENTY-ONE PERCENT


    Where are all the gun freaks who've been posting joyous celebrations about the Supreme Court rulings on guns?
    AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.

    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    if not guns the 6feet of rope.
    Q: Senator Obama, would you take the same pledge? No tax increases on people under $250,000?

    OBAMA: I not only have pledged not to raise their taxes, I've been the first candidate in this race to specifically say I would cut their taxes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chapdog View Post
    if not guns the 6feet of rope.
    Or car into the lake, or .....
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
    - -- Aristotle

    Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
    - -- The Buddha

    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    - -- Aristotle

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Or car into the lake, or .....
    pills, knives, falls from heights, or ...

    guns only account for half of all suicides ...
    AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.

    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    A suicide bomb belt may become the latest fashion accessory for the suicidially inclined.

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    Let the racist in WV kill themselves off, we still need to take guns off the streets

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    Yeah they are hard on tires when I run over them.

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    Well, one of the "gun freaks who've been posting joyous celebrations" was at lunch with his wife. If anyone is ever on the east side of Atlanta, I wholeheartedly recommend Journey's End for lunch. Delicious southern cuisine.

    The number of suicides by gun doesn't really mean anything to our celebrations. If someone wants to commit suicide they are going to commit suicide. The lack of an available gun won't stop them. It might make the suicide less messy, depending on how they do it, but it wouldn't stop them.

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    So what we are supposed to make guns illegal because people kill THEMSELVES? My right to have a fire arm should not be predicated on any depressed person that doesn't know there is a SHIT LOAD of help out there for them. I don't have an ounce of sympathy for someone that commits suicide. Fuck sakes, I think it is insane that most states make suicide attempts a crime. Someone want to blow off their head, all I would ask is they do it outside so that no one has to clean up after them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Solitary View Post
    Well, one of the "gun freaks who've been posting joyous celebrations" was at lunch with his wife. If anyone is ever on the east side of Atlanta, I wholeheartedly recommend Journey's End for lunch. Delicious southern cuisine.

    The number of suicides by gun doesn't really mean anything to our celebrations. If someone wants to commit suicide they are going to commit suicide. The lack of an available gun won't stop them. It might make the suicide less messy, depending on how they do it, but it wouldn't stop them.
    Pretty much. I just hate the ones where they kill their family before blowing their brains out.

    Thanks for the dining tip, will check it out on my next trip down south.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DNC View Post
    Let the racist in WV kill themselves off, we still need to take guns off the streets
    I never put my guns on the street. But then, I have pampered guns.



    All jokes aside DNC, I'll happily give up my handguns when you can guarantee me that none of the criminals will have guns.

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    Wait til the gun freaks on the Supreme court get replaced, you won't be laughing then

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    Every6one remember when we were talking about rights infringed in this war on terror and how most of us agreed that a free society is not exactly a safe society. WHere are all the supporters of this now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Socrtease View Post
    Every6one remember when we were talking about rights infringed in this war on terror and how most of us agreed that a free society is not exactly a safe society. WHere are all the supporters of this now?
    LOL, good point. The fear needs refreshed I think to keep to keep that going. A war with Iran would be just the ticket for future mass manipulations.

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