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• Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides

  Mon Jun 30, 2008
  • Sure. How? Doesn't Newsvine frown on linking to anything? (I'm new here.) And I don't have any way to send you a link. My email (hold onto your socks) is gunrights-AT-comcast-DOT-net. No, I'm not kidding.

• Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides

  Mon Jun 30, 2008
  • Yup. And the offer is real. Just Google "Kevin Baker." I'm the one who is NOT a published author. I believe my blog pops up as the last link on the first page. Contact information is available there. And some stuff you might find interesting to read.

• Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides

  Mon Jun 30, 2008
  • Well, if you're ever in the Tucson area, I have a standing offer on my blog:If you have never shot a firearm, regardless of your position on the right to arms, and if you live near or visit the Tucson, AZ metropolitan area, I invite you to go shooting for a day.

• Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides

  Mon Jun 30, 2008
  • The thing that surprises most people is that shooting is FUN. It is also, I understand, "empowering" for many. I've introduced several people to shooting, and uniformly the reaction has been "this isn't scary anymore."

• Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides

  Mon Jun 30, 2008
  • So the Second Amendment only applies to weapons available in 1791? Here's a quote from the dissent in a firearms case, California's Silveira v. Lockyer from 2002:Judges know very well how to read the Constitution broadly when they are sympathetic to the right being asserted.

• Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides

  Mon Jun 30, 2008
  • Thank you, Griff69, you took the words right out of my mouth, (so to speak.)

• Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides

  Mon Jun 30, 2008
  • RebelGirl, I suggest that the problem isn't firearms, it's the class of people you associate with. Certainly your experience has skewed your perspective.

• Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides

  Mon Jun 30, 2008
  • Why is it that anti-gun nuts are so violent? No wonder they don't trust other people with guns, they can't trust themselves!

• Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides

  Mon Jun 30, 2008
  • If that was the case, the U.S. would be depopulated. Of the G8 nations, America ranks at #5 for suicide rates, despite the fact that the firearm is the method of choice here. Here's the comparative data: For males the G8 rankings are as follows (all in rates/100,000 population):

• Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides

  Mon Jun 30, 2008
  • You miss the point, JWK. The Constitution is the founding LEGAL document for the government of this country, just as the Declaration of Independence is the founding PHILOSOPHICAL document. The purpose of a Constitution is to set the rules.