You must be mistaken. The stump must have been indoors, the only place Joe thinks guns have ever been allowed.
Not sure why this was posted in the thread about Canada's ban on battlefield .22's.
The thing about that last one is, as this thread has repeatedly shown, that the USA has an unremarkable suicide rate compared to other developed nations and most of those "gun deaths" are suicides.
Such ignorance. One only has to google Japan, and suicide in Japan, for five minutes to understand there can no fair comparison between the suicides in these different cultures.
Well, OK, how about former British colonies?
Is the suicide rate among US veterans as high as Japan's rate?
The newest numbers show that the U.S. rate is 44 members a day. The government tends to group numbers by period, for instance, from 2010 to 2016, which blurs the facts. It is still a difficult number to reckon with.
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Those are pretty astounding figures, and it's also very interesting that 3/4 of veterans are not under VA care. I know that modern veterans are treated much differently than veterans of my era. For example, Afghanistan vets are rated before they leave the service and are instructed to register with the VA.i
On 2019, that figure stood at 17 members per day. In 2001, it was 14.4 per day. Today, a whopping 25% of American suicides are veterans.
More Veterans Die By Suicide Than In Combat. But It's Preventable
The military's emphasis on personal responsibility keeps many distressed veterans from seeking help, write Anna Richardson and Sarah Roxburgh.
Are Veterans at a Higher Risk for Suicide?
The suicide rate for veterans is 1.5 times higher than that of the general population.4
Comparing the rate among female veterans to non-Veteran adult women, the rate is 2.5 times higher.5 From 2001 to 2014, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) reports an increased suicide rate among women using VA health services from 14.4 per 100,000 to 17.3 per 100,000.6
Suicide rates are especially high among older veterans. According the VA, in 2016, about 58% of all veterans committed suicide were among Veterans age 55 years or older.4
Suicide Among Veterans - Why are Veterans at a Higher Risk of Suicide?
A major, yet preventable health problem in the U.S. is suicide. The suicide rate for veterans is 1.5 times higher than that of the general population. In spite of these grim realities, veterans have plenty of reason for hope. The VA has doubled its efforts to address the challenges that veterans...americanaddictioncenters.org
Such is ignorance. Are you not the proud recipient of a National Merit Scholarship endowment?
Americanos looking more like Honduras every day.
Philadelphia gas station owner hires heavily armed guards to protect business: 'We are tired of this nonsense'
A Philadelphia gas station owner fed up with incessant crime threatening his employees and customers hired heavily armed security guards to watch over his business.www.fox5ny.com
"A Philadelphia gas station owner fed up with incessant crime threatening his employees and customers hired heavily armed security guards to watch over his business.
Neil Patel, operator of a Karco gas station at Broad and Clearfield streets in North Philadelphia, recruited Pennsylvania S.I.T.E Agents clad with Kevlar vest and AR-15s or shotguns.
"They are forcing us to hire the security, high-level security, state level," Patel told FOX 29. "We are tired of this nonsense; robbery, drug trafficking, hanging around, gangs." "
This really needed a whole new thread?
Actually, I think it was jocal who started trying to convince everyone that suicide is gun violence by calling it self murder.
yes.
I used the term ONCE. You weaponized it, mocking the gun suicides... which you also facilitiate. You are a piece of work, IMO.
