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Originally Posted by Lotus
You did not read your own link clearly.
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Yes, I did.
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Originally Posted by Lotus
For example, you missed this important tidbit:
"For children 5 to 14 years of age, firearm suicide rates were 8 times higher, and death rates from unintentional firearm injuries were 10 times higher in the United States than other high-income countries. The difference in rates may be related to the ease of availability of guns in the United States compared with other high-income countries."
That's pretty damning stuff for the gun status quo.
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I guess it depends which country you use as your control:
NPR - Swiss Gun Culture
The study reviewed 158 Swiss murders and suicides that took place between 1991 and 2008. It found 90 percent of the cases involved firearms.
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Originally Posted by Lotus
The 15-19 age group was just one age group discussed in the link you posted, which was just one source of the report cited above. The report cited above stands.
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Mainly because it's by far the largest amount of fatalities, deliberately included to skew the data and raise the level of horror, for obvious reasons. Drop that group out (which clearly includes gang-bangers and wannabe's) and the figure drops remarkably, thus undermining the hair-on-fire thrust.
The report is odious and predictable. I'm on a four day weekend, should be a lively one.