Gun deaths in US are primarily suicides

[madeinuk]

From one of the liberal beast's own mouths:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/upshot/gun-deaths-are-mostly-suicides.html

So statistics which use number of total gun deaths or 'violent crimes' ( suicide is illegal) are BS.

Remember: numbers don't lie but liars use numbers.

[Batsto]

And the sucide rate seems to be increasing. Sad stuff.

[1957Buck]

AND  the rise in people renting a Gun at a Range and turning it on them selfs at the range to commit Suicide. NJ has had some of them. Never know, add Suicide by Cop.  

Edited September 12, 2018 by 1957Buck

[dlist777]

Yes, gun control advocates love to include suicides in the # because it triples the number.  Also, they'll make claims that obvious reverse cause and effect.  They'll say "Having a gun in the home increases the chance of suicide by XXX%".  Of course, that's ridiculous.  Did you all of the sudden feel more suicidal the first time you bought a gun?  No.  People who want to commit suicide use whatever method is available.   Or people who are otherwise suicidal, buy guns to kill themselves.  But, the gun isn't the cause.  

[BowhunterNJ]

Yes, most gun deaths are from suicide and by handgun.  Yet the focus is on statistically infrequent incidents with AR15s and "high capacity" magazines.  It's like trying to ban bicycles because someone got killed on one, while ignoring all the deaths by motor vehicles.  This nation has a mental health problem that needs to be addressed.  You don't fix mental health by removing the items that someone can harm themselves or others with.  If you took that approach, you need to remove all knives, hammers, sticks, stones, etc.  And in doing that, by making them illegal, you've now left the mentally healthy law abiding citizens defenseless as they follow the laws while the mentally unhealthy individuals ignore the laws and use all those "banned" items to commit crimes and harm others. Completely backwards policy!

[Greybeard]

Also, USA ranks around 67th in mass shootings, unlike the dem media would want you to believe.  Many more nations without a 2A right have more mass shootings than we do.  We are low ranked for gun violence compared to other nations.

[buckhound]

i read years ago  guns are used because its fast almost no chance of stopping it once they pull the trigger, some who use pills are actually looking for attention not to die they figure they will be saved and get attention. i had a cousin in the 80's that used a gun to kill himself and another family memeber who died in car accident some think it was a plea for help because it was on his ex wifes way home from work just before she was suppose to come through my mom always felt he was trying to get her attention not die.as people have said banning an object is not the answer because they will always find a way to do it we need to focus more on getting them the help they need they are mostly depressed for what ever reason and just have no idea how to deal with the issue alone or that they have a serious issue ...