There’s a new global ranking of gun deaths. Here’s where the U.S. stands - PBS NewsHour
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Don’t we really just care about murders.
Global Ranking of Gun deaths worldwide
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Re: Global Ranking of Gun deaths worldwide
philip964 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:51 pm There’s a new global ranking of gun deaths. Here’s where the U.S. stands - PBS NewsHour
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/the ... u-s-stands
Biased just from title.
Don’t we really just care about murders.
But if you just count murders, where a gun was used, that would take the US, almost to the bottom, of the list, and it then becomes much more difficult, to convince people, that we have a "gun" problem. Figures don't lie, but you can't stop liars from figuring. JMHO
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Re: Global Ranking of Gun deaths worldwide
We aren't exceptional in terms of suicide rate.
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As soup of " suicide, accidental shootings, and homicide" are all mixed up just to make no sense when common sense is needed. Cars Kills more than all firearms in numbers and rate. Ban cars not guns.
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Re: Global Ranking of Gun deaths worldwide
Right on, Beiruty! The statistics are manipulated to make a political point. They state the average suicide rate by guns is 23-24%, but it's much, much higher in the US. Homicides by firearms world wide is a different picture, especially for homicides per 100,000.
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We have a suicide problem and over-dose drug problem in US. Why no dems is acting with some common sense and demanding banning all drugs.
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Re: Global Ranking of Gun deaths worldwide
With 20 plus years as a Paramedic, the one thing I know is if somebody is going to off themselves nothing will stop them, if they are determined they will succeed and the means is irrelevant!
I fail to see why guns are included in these statistics without including all the other means also!
Liars can figure and figures can lie!
I fail to see why guns are included in these statistics without including all the other means also!
Liars can figure and figures can lie!
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Re: Global Ranking of Gun deaths worldwide
PBS = Progressive Broadcasting System.philip964 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:51 pm There’s a new global ranking of gun deaths. Here’s where the U.S. stands - PBS NewsHour
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/the ... u-s-stands
Biased just from title.
Don’t we really just care about murders.
The article’s source is listed as JAMA, the Jounal of the American Medical Association, an anti-gun group of doctors who would like you to believe they represent the great majority of physicians. They do not. Membership in the 1950’s was about 75% of doctors, today it is about 25%.
The left lies about everything. Truth is a liberal value, and truth is a conservative value, but it has never been a left-wing value. People on the left say whatever advances their immediate agenda. Power is their moral lodestar; therefore, truth is always subservient to it. - Dennis Prager