Delaware Concealed Carry Forum
CCW Methods & Issues => General CCW Discussion => Topic started by: Obleo on January 21, 2014, 03:36:57 PM
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What a surprize.
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/guns-home-raise-suicide-homicide-risk-review-confirms-2D11950306#guns-home-raise-suicide-homicide-risk-review-confirms-2D11950306
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That seems to go against this Harvard study
WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE
MURDER AND SUICIDE?
A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AND
SOME DOMESTIC EVIDENCE
DON B. KATES* AND GARY MAUSER**
Which says, among other things:
There is simply no relationship evident between the extent of suicide and the extent of gun ownership. People do not commit suicide because they have guns available. In the absence of firearms, people who are inclined to commit suicide kill themselves some other way.
Guns are just one among numerous available deadly instruments. Thus, banning guns cannot reduce the amount of suicides. Such measures only reduce the number of suicides by firearms. Suicides committed in other ways increase to make up the difference. People do not commit suicide because they have guns available. They kill themselves for reasons they deem sufficient, and in the absence of firearms they just kill themselves in some other way.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf (http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf)
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Maybe if they legalize pot in California the people there can reflect on all the flat-out BS they produce. And maybe not export their nonsense to the rest of us.