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4. How can you exclude 60% of gun deaths?

Mon Oct 5, 2015, 09:38 AM

Oct 2015

Of course suicides by gun matter. It's long been known that when a man buys a gun, the one person that gun is most likely to kill is himself.

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There will be no changes until those who wish for change pipoman Oct 2015 #1

Basically the "do nothing" because "stuff happens" approach... Human101948 Oct 2015 #6

That's not at all what I advocated Lee-Lee Oct 2015 #12

Would Maryland's statistics be skewed by Baltimore? Human101948 Oct 2015 #3

It also coincides with an economic boom. hughee99 Oct 2015 #10

Nail hit. Whiskeytide Oct 2015 #11

I'll second that! Human101948 Oct 2015 #16

Exactly- when you address the causes of violence it drops Lee-Lee Oct 2015 #20

How can you exclude 60% of gun deaths? mainer Oct 2015 #4

The presence of a gun doesn't cause suicide and the absence pipoman Oct 2015 #8

It's context. Whiskeytide Oct 2015 #13

If the topic of conversation is mass shootings hack89 Oct 2015 #18

The topic in the OP title is "Gun deaths." Not mass shootings. mainer Oct 2015 #19

The WaPo's info flies directly in the face if everything I've researched underpants Oct 2015 #15

The WaPo cites some pretty reputable and neutral sources TeddyR Oct 2015 #22