[Peace-discuss] On an Average Day, 96 Americans Die By Firearms

[E. Wayne Johnson]

correction: cantor was not a suicide, but perhaps neither were the 
"suicides" of some wayward Clinton associates.

ewj via Peace-discuss wrote:
> according to this report, about 67% are suicides.  about two in every 
> three are suicides, saith the new york times.  i read it over and over 
> again.  surely it is not misprint or a typo.
>
> arguably murder could be done with an orange claw hammer or a silver 
> one or a sears and roebuck crowbar or one from walmart but few who are 
> out to do themselves in would choose a blunt instrument or even a very 
> sharp one.
>
> it seems that this story is not about violence in Amerika but about 
> depression and despair.
>
> It is Colonel Mustard in the basement on the rope.
>
> my personal tendencies taken to some dysfunctional extreme are more 
> likely self defense that self destruction.  i can relate to going 
> after the noisy good humour man but not him driving me to suicide with 
> his monotune and sticky confections.
>
> is the same logic used to defend abortion applicable here?  in the 
> absence of a gun the depressed will resort to rusty coat hangers and 
> Drano?
>
> r. crumb suggested that the society would make cyanide pies available 
> for the terminally despairing.  sort of like tide pods,.  only 
> crunchy?  take two.  take more.
>
> I note of late that suicides are not condemned as they were in the 
> society i grew up in.  we would sympathize with families and shake our 
> heads in disbelief and hope it was over.  jourdain, williams, 
> hemingway, cobain, boltzmann, cantor...
>
> what is up?
>
> if what the nytimes is saying is.tru
>
>
>
> On 2018-06-12 02:08 , Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss 
> <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> Wrote:
>
>
>     *From: *"Szoke, Ron" <r-szoke at illinois.edu
>     <mailto:r-szoke at illinois.edu>>
>     *Subject: **NYTimes.com <http://NYTimes.com>: On an Average Day,
>     96 Americans Die By Firearms*
>     *Date: *June 11, 2018
>
>     From The New York Times:
>
>     On an Average Day, 96 Americans Die By Firearms
>
>     Mass shootings represent just a fraction of the nation’s gun violence.
>
>     https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/10/opinion/editorials/gun-violence-pulse-orlando.html
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