[ExI] Guns and Murder

[Henry Rivera]

And there’s a correlation between access to/possession of guns and suicide in the States. 

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>> On Aug 15, 2020, at 4:39 PM, BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 at 21:02, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I just thought I would share some data that I mined with you all about
>> the relationship between the prevalence guns and murder as it pertains
>> to various nation-states. In lieu of any commentary, I am simply
>> posting the data here in the hopes that the reader would draw their
>> own conclusions. I invite commentary from others, however.
>> 
>> Stuart LaForge
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> In the US I thought there were more gun suicides than gun murders.
> 
> <https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/guns-crime/news/2019/11/20/477218/gun-violence-america-state-state-analysis/>
> Quote:
> While gun homicides dominate media coverage of gun violence, the
> largest category of gun deaths in the United States is suicide.
> Suicide by firearm accounted for 61 percent of all gun deaths from
> 2008 through 2017.
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> 
> BillK
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