Columnist calls for end of NRA, death for gun nuts

[Karee 4,190]

Anybody else notice that chart looks like a day at the gun range?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Anybody else notice that chart looks like a day at the gun range?

Well, if you step back and look at it, you will see a trend line. Not one that gun nuts like to look at let alone acknowledge but one that shows the truth about what gun proliferation does - it increases gun deaths. As I said, facts sometimes suck but they're still the facts.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Source? Or is that a power point you came up with in between your SPA meetings?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Well, if you step back and look at it, you will see a trend line.

Poor breath control along with an unsteady trigger pull will give you the same results.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Source? Or is that a power point you came up with in between your SPA meetings?

Source: http://election.princeton.edu/2012/12/22/scientific-americans-gun-error/

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Source: http://election.prin...cans-gun-error/

I know facts are to you as Sun to a vampire

In a 3 year period in Alaska 611 Violent deaths. 69% were suicide. 19% homicide. The rate is 21 per 100,000

The OP was rate. Take out the suicide and Alaska has a gun crime rate way lower than the national average

Darn the Pesky facts that keep slapping the anti-gun nuts upside the head.. You had another Epic Fail..

Mash here

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[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I know facts are to you as Sun to a vampire

In a 3 year period in Alaska 611 Violent deaths. 69% were suicide. 19% homicide. The rate is 21 per 100,000

The OP was rate. Take out the suicide and Alaska has a gun crime rate way lower than the national average

That was brought up and addressed already. I was saying that gun proliferation increases gun deaths. Not gun crime but gun deaths. Seeing that suicide victims are precisely as dead as homicide victims, the point you raise is moot. Why do you insist on refuting points that I did not make?

And then there's this - the higher the gun ownership rates, the higher the firearm deaths.

Facts suck! We should ban them, eh?

Whats that chart like minus suicide (probably why AK is at the top)

Why does that matter? Is a suicide victim somehow less dead?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

In a 3 year period in Alaska 611 Violent deaths. 69% were suicide. 19% homicide. The rate is 21 per 100,000

Looks like Alaska is a pretty depressing place to live.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Those suicides are almost all entirely natives living out in remote villages. They sniff gas, get depressed and blow their brains out. If it wasn't from a gun they would do it with a noose or whatever else was handy atm.

[aaydrian 479]

Those suicides are almost all entirely natives living out in remote villages. They sniff gas, get depressed and blow their brains out. If it wasn't from a gun they would do it with a noose or whatever else was handy atm.

You have any idea why they might be depressed?

Edited January 5, 2013 by aaydrian

[Penny Lane 8,159]

You have any idea why the might be depressed?

Because they live in Alaska?

[Karee 4,190]

You have any idea why the might be depressed?

Sitting around getting drunk every day waiting for your next government check sounds pretty depressing to me.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

You have any idea why they might be depressed?

No jobs, they live in the middle of nowhere with some living in villages that are as small as 100 people or less. They are caught between two cultures, throw in the lack of daylight and extreme temps in the winter along with the gas sniffing and this is what you get.

[Karee 4,190]

Sitting around getting drunk every day waiting for your next government check sounds pretty depressing to me.

Actually I shouldn't knock that. That's pretty much my retirement plan, except I'll be doing it in a shack near the border with Cambodia.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Why does that matter? Is a suicide victim somehow less dead?

I don't count a person who commits suicide a victim (you should know that by now... lol)

Edited January 5, 2013 by Usui Takumi