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Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:59:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
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What a fascinating site.
Here’s a few figures--
1. What was tthe intent or manner of the injury?
-violence-related
2. What was the cause or mechanism of the injury?
-all injury
3. Select specific options.
-United States, 2000-2000, and basically everyone...
Number of deaths--46,474
Now let’s change 2 to ‘firearms’
Number of deaths--27,657
60 percent of the violent deaths in your country in the year 2000, according to
this website were due to *just* firearms. That leaves 40 percent for all other
forms of violent death combined, including knives, axes, rope, baseball bats,
and let’s not ferget driving over spouses with vehicles.
Nice.
Dave K
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| (...) So what? All you've done is show that people are smart enough to use the best tool for a certain task -- if you intend to kill someone a gun is a good choice for that job. In a sense, if you could eliminate a person's motivation to kill you (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) I always see the term "gun related deaths" used when I see these kinds of statistics. I have no idea whether there's a criminal factor in the assessment of the deaths at all -- frankly, why should there be? I think its possible that you are (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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