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MAY 24, 2013

 

Suicides by gun accounted for about six of every 10 firearm deaths in 2010 and just over half of all suicides, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Since the CDC began publishing data in 1981, gun suicides have outnumbered gun homicides. But as gun homicides have declined sharply in recent years, suicides have become a greater share of all firearm deaths: the 61% share in 2010 was the highest on record. That year there were 19,392 suicides by firearm compared to 11,078 homicides by gun (35% of all firearm deaths). The rest were accidents, police shootings and unknown causes.

 

In terms of both raw numbers and population rates, gun suicides have been on the rise in recent years, even as gun homicides have fallen. In 2010, the gun suicide rate was 6.3 per 100,000 people, compared with 3.6 per 100,000 for gun homicides.

At 87%, males are the vast majority of gun suicides. By age group, people 65 and older have the highest firearm suicide rate: 10.6 per 100,000 people.

Despite national attention to the issue of firearm violence, most Americans are unaware that gun crime is lower today than it was two decades ago. According to a new Pew Research Center survey, today 56% of Americans believe gun crime is higher than 20 years ago and only 12% think it is lower.

 

http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...for-most-gun-deaths/

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Suicides in the U.S. military are occurring at a rate of about 22 per day, many of which are the result of stress brought on by multiple deployments to the war-torn nations of Iraq and Afghanistan, two wars that were unnecessary and have cost this nation dearly in both lives and treasure, with little prospect for any lasting beneficial results.  Nations beset with ingrained tribal and religious hatreds will not be reformed by invasions by nations naively expecting to reverse hundreds of years of ingrained tribal and religious hatreds.

Originally Posted by mad American:
I guess you would rather the terrorist come over here and our soldiers have to kill them in our streets.

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Al Qaeda did not even exist in Iraq until the U.S. invaded that nation and provided an opportunity for Al Qaeda to recruit terrorists to repel the "infidels."  If us "infidels" had not been there, that rallying cause would not have existed.

 

We have been at war with Al Qaeda and the Taliban for about 13 years now and if our borders are as porous as the right wingers tell us they are, why would we not already have had waves of terrorist invaders mowing us down in the streets?

 

Originally Posted by Contendah:

Suicides in the U.S. military are occurring at a rate of about 22 per day, many of which are the result of stress brought on by multiple deployments to the war-torn nations of Iraq and Afghanistan, two wars that were unnecessary and have cost this nation dearly in both lives and treasure, with little prospect for any lasting beneficial results.  Nations beset with ingrained tribal and religious hatreds will not be reformed by invasions by nations naively expecting to reverse hundreds of years of ingrained tribal and religious hatreds.

If demmies don't like wars, they shouldn't keep starting them!!

Learn the facts behind blind statistics:

 

"Almost 22 veterans are thought to commit suicide each day, according to a 2012 VA report.

That statistic is tragic, but it doesn't really represent current veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Los Angeles Times reports.

 

Close to 72% of veterans are over 50, with this group accounting for 69% of veteran suicides. The majority of veteran suicides are thought to have little to do with military service, according to the LA Times.

 

Alan Zarembo, of the Los Angeles Times, notes:

Many experts believe that the farther a veteran is from military service, the less likely it is that his or her suicide has anything to do with his or her time in uniform. In other words, many older veterans are killing themselves for the same reasons that other civilians in the same age group kill themselves: depression and other mental health problems coupled with difficult life circumstances."



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