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"Most firearm deaths in America stem not from homicide (15,835 reported
to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in 1995) but
suicide (18,503 reported to the NCHS in 1995)."
Susan Glick
Violence Policy Center
--- Randy <jrehler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Let's see 25,000 dead in US divided by the poplation of 250,000,000
> gives us 0.0001 or less than 1 percent of 1 percent of the US
>population dead by guns.
>
> Pretty low odds, I'll take that trade.
it's even lower than that, assuming that the above ratio of 55% suicide
guns deaths vs 45% for homocides still holds true. let's see, that
works out to 11,250 gun related homocides or 0.0045% of the u.s. pop;
much lower out of the metro areas
TJ
it's not about guns, but control and power....nuff said
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