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Califbill

F*O*A*D wrote:
On 10/29/14 12:12 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:30:20 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 10/29/14 11:24 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:16:30 -0400, BAR wrote:

In article .at,
says...

Greg, you're a ****ing idiot. The number one killer of people is
other people with guns.

Do you have any facts to backup your assertion?

Anonymous opinions are just graffiti on the **** house wall.

He is far from accurate tho. About 11,000 people are murdered with
guns in this country and over 40,000 die in cars. Almost 700,000 die
from heart disease. Bacon kills 50 times as many people as bullets.

How many of those car deaths are murders? And, of course, the number of
gun deaths in this country is much much higher than just the 11,000
murdered, and in fact is the same as or close to the number of car deaths.

That reading comprehension thing really seems to escape you.

I was responding to this assertion by Kevin

"The number one killer of people is other people with guns."

Suicide, the biggest cause of gun death, is not being "killed by other
people with guns". The gun part of suicide is incidental anyway.
Countries without any significant gun ownership, like Japan, manage to
have a higher suicide rate than the US.
Robin Williams didn't have a gun and it did not slow down his suicide.
To address your off topic response, a lot of those car deaths may be
suicide too. It is seldom if ever investigated that way.

Gee, I wonder what percentage of car deaths are the result of successful
suicide attempts. Must be "a lot."

Even unsuccessful suicide attempts via car kill other people.