Missourian
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How many of those are suicides, how many are justifiable homicides, how many are police shootings?
19,000 are sucides. Suicides are really a bad thing.
Only 201 justifiable homicides by civilians a year. Not enough to justify gun usage.
For Police Shootings, (which I don't consider "justifiable" in most cases. Not after that film of a cop shooting a man in the back, you have to wonder how often that goes on.) no one really knows because most police departments don't report them. It's estimated to be 1200 a year or so.
More falsehoods and misleading stats. Do you have a cure for suicide?
Sure I do. It's called, "Not having guns lying around the house". That would reduce the suicide rate by about 50%.
10,000 Americans per year commit suicide by suffocation...is there a plastic bag crisis, a rope crisis?
since plastic bags and ropes aren't designed for that purpose, no. Guns are specifically designed to kill people.
The CDC says 21,000 suicides.
Firearm suicides
- Number of deaths: 21,175
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.7
- Number of deaths: 10,062
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.2
- Number of deaths: 6,637
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 2.1
The suicide rate in the U.S. (200 million firearms) 12.6 deaths per 100,000
Oops.
So firearm HOMICIDES and accidental shootings is ALL we should be looking at.
And since we know that swimming pools cause more accidental deaths than firearms...we can cut those out too, hardly a crisis.
So we are down to roughly 11,000 firearm homicides, again, according to the CDC.
Firearm homicides
- Number of deaths: 11,208