Half Gun Deaths Are Suicides

June 30th, 2008 by Quan Tranh

According to a new study 50% of gun deaths are not homicides, but suicides.

Suicides accounted for 55 percent of the nation’s nearly 31,000 firearm deaths in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That’s good to know that the recent Supreme Court ruling is not going to affect 50% of the people that are shot. Since we are supposedly having a recession (I’m not convinced), then fewer people mean more jobs and wealth for the rest of us. Fewer people also mean less pollution. If the Democrats want to prove that they are the environmentally friendly party then they should strive to put more guns on the street. That’s the kind of environmentally friendly platform I can go for.

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