[ExI] Guns and Murder

[Dylan Distasio]

That's because the actual act of attempting suicide is an impulsive action
(I'm not arguing about what leads up to it, but the actual decision to
follow through).   You get very few do overs with firearms and it is very
easy to pull a trigger without fear of future suffering in the act.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 5:05 PM Henry Rivera via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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