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4. But .were still focusing the discussion on guns Guns, and dead people....violent death. What if no guns were allowed, a la Japan? Fewer dead people of course?
a. United States . Violent Deaths per 100,000: Homicides, 5.70; Firearm Homicides, 3.72; Suicides, 12.06; Households with Guns, 39.0 .Violent Death Rate: 18.57
b. Japan ..Again, Violent Deaths per 100,000: Homicides, 0.62; Firearm Homicides, 0.02; Suicides, 16.72; Households with Guns, 0.04 .Violent Death Rate: 17.34
GunCite-Gun Control-International Homicide and Suicide Rates
Conclusion?
Care to make the argument about guns?
I'm sure you thought that this was being kind of clever, but the only way you get Japan to as much "violence" as the US is by throwing in the Suicides.
Forgetting in Japan, suicide is considered more socially acceptable as part of their culture through history. While Western societies teach suicide is a sin, Japanese culture considered it honorable.
Take out the sucides, and you have very little homicide in Japan, and very little of it committed with guns.
And this is not because they aren't exposed to the same violent influences we are. One can only watch some Anime and Manga that glorifies violence in a way American mediums wouldn't dream of.
Violent deaths.
That was my point.
Please don't redefine the issue for me.
Now....if you would like to argue that those who died by suicide are more copacetic with the result than those who died in other ways....go right ahead.
In mass shootings involving guns and mind-altering medications, politicians immediately seek to blame guns but never the medication. Nearly every mass shooting that has taken place in America over the last two decades has a link to psychiatric medication, and it appears today's tragic event is headed in the same direction.
According to ABC News, Adam Lanza, the alleged shooter, has been labeled as having mental illness and a personality disorder. These are precisely the words typically heard in a person who is being treated with mind-altering psychiatric drugs . The Columbine High School shooters were, of course, on psychiatric drugs One of the most common side effects of psychiatric drugs is violent outbursts and thoughts of suicide . We should be outlawing psychiatric medications, not an inanimate piece of metal.
Gun control? We need medication control! Newton elementary school shooter Adam Lanza likely on meds; labeled as having 'personality disorder'
The link again?
Nearly every mass shooting that has taken place in America over the last two decades has a link to psychiatric medication,...
One of the most common side effects of psychiatric drugs is violent outbursts and thoughts of suicide
Not guns.....the insistence on psychotropic drugs by quacks who don't know what the result will be.