Jonathan Pie reflects on gun violence and Gay rights in the aftermath of the horrific Orlando killings.
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Jonathan Pie reflects on gun violence and Gay rights in the aftermath of the horrific Orlando killings.
Always Question Authority 
“Machine Guns” are not available for purchase by the public. A semi-automatic, whether in rifle or handgun form is not a machine gun. Less than 2% of people killed or wounded by guns are the result of using an AR-15-type rifle. about half of the 13,000 gun deaths are from suicide. Cherry-picked stats are not convincing in making this guy’s case. How about the British PM killed by a nut case? He used both a knife and a hand gun. Hand guns are outlawed in Britain.
Frederick,
You claimed “about half of the 13,000 gun deaths are from suicide.” That is not true! According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, firearms were used in 84,258 nonfatal injuries (26.65 per 100,000 U.S. citizens) [2] and 11,208 deaths by homicide (3.5 per 100,000),[3] 21,175 by suicide with a firearm,[4] 505 deaths due to accidental discharge of a firearm,[4] and 281 deaths due to firearms-use with “undetermined intent”[5] for a total of 33,169 deaths related to firearms (excluding firearm deaths due to legal intervention).
Please see links:
https://www.thetrace.org/2015/11/gun-suicides-mental-illness-statistics/
I thought I understated the number. One can find quite an array of differing stats on the percentage of firearm deaths in the U.S. caused by firearms. The two links above are the two that immediately follow the CDC link to which you referred and that shows in a Google search.
Frederick,
Thank you for your comments.
In Reason,
Madison