Recent content by wagdog

The US non-firearm homicide rate is 3 times higher. If you add in firearms it's 6 times higher. I don't believe infringing on the rights of law abiding citizens will cut the rate in half. It will result in people being denied the ability to exercise their right to bear arms.

And we're back to name calling.

Here are the charts. Table 1 is the US, Table 2 are the 22 other countries. Source: http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)01030-X/fulltext If you throw out our "firearms homicide", our homicide rate is 1.7 to .6 (nonfirearm to nonfirearm) - about 3 times higher. We're more violent in...

I would say that if the firearms situation is as bad as it's made out to be, teaching basic safety to everyone is important enough that it gets done in school. It isn't that large a subject and it doesn't require weekly range trips. As a matter of fact, it doesn't require any range trips.

Sort of. The inner four still participate in holding the trem in place against the latteral string tension. The outer two adjust the angle of the bridge and stopping point of the return action.

Source for your first statement? My feeling (no source) is often one person might have a gun and avoid an altercation because they don't want it to escalate. My statement is about as unprovable as yours. Do you think everyone in the US walks around with a gun?

As the report Chad linked to pointed out: when compared to 22 other high-income countries, we have a LOWER suicide rate, even with easy access to guns. Yes, I know people who shouldn't own guns but legally do. I've also lost a friend to suicide, with a gun. You asked why suicide is brought up...

The reason is suicide by gun is lumped in with the numbers for "gun violence" and often used in pointing out how the US has a gun problem. It's disingenuous at best and dishonest. The US has a suicide rate of 12.6 per 100k people and is 48th in the world. Firearms are used in ~50% of the...

I did, and I'll look again tomorrow when I'm not exhausted. Defensive gun uses don't always mean someone was shot or even that a shot was fired. The presence of a gun is often enough of a deterrent to prevent a crime. That's another reason actual numbers are hard to come by.

I'm not against more data. The CDC however is not without bias on this issue. There is a reason they were defunded: https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/02/12/why-the-centers-for-disease-control-should-not-receive-gun-research-funding/

Pretty sure the gun death stats they reported in the CBS article included suicide with a gun. That's 2/3 of the deaths in the US with a firearm. People in those countries kill themselves at a higher rate than the US. AFAIK there isn't an official number of people who defend themselves with a...

I didn't bring it up.

Those numbers include suicides. We're the 3rd lowest in the nation in homicides: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_the_United_States_by_state Did you look up traffic deaths yet?

Numbers, they mean things. Look it up. "Compared to 22 other high-income nations, the United States' gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher." So they cherry pick 22 "high-income nations" to compare the US to. Also note, again, that they are including firearm suicide deaths, which account...