Man accidentally shoots wife while installing satellite dish
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In 2005, all (the CDC data doesn't separate handgun from long gun use) firearm suicides in the US totaled 17,002 for a rate of 5.73 per 100k.
So if that 24,000 number is accurate for recent data, it has to include suicides.
Though from the 70's to the early 90's, the actual homicide number did hit 24k, and the highest rate recorded in modern times was 1980's 10.2 per 100k.
The 2005 rate was 5.6
Data source for homicide info
If that video was made using figures from 1995 or later, it's certainly lumping suicides in.
So if that 24,000 number is accurate for recent data, it has to include suicides.
Though from the 70's to the early 90's, the actual homicide number did hit 24k, and the highest rate recorded in modern times was 1980's 10.2 per 100k.
The 2005 rate was 5.6
Data source for homicide info
If that video was made using figures from 1995 or later, it's certainly lumping suicides in.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier
Oderint dum metuant
Oderint dum metuant
The CDC's WISQARS database is a good source.Darth Wong wrote:It's not out of line. In 2001, total firearms deaths were almost 30,000 according to http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUT ... NSTAT.html (it was one of the few sources I could find which was not obviously politically charged).
Though like the one you posted it doesn't separate handgun deaths from long gun deaths.
The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports does separate them and IIRC, the trend is about 65-70% of all gun homicides are handgun homicides.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier
Oderint dum metuant
Oderint dum metuant
Thanks for the figures, Mike and Glocksman.
Absolutely. There was some brief footage of the place on CNN, it looked like one of those portable, prefab "triple wide" trailer-trash homes, which don't have very thick surfaces.pucky18 wrote:I'm no firearms expert, but wouldn't a surface weak enough to have a .22 fired from a handgun go through and kill someone on the other side be easy to break through by normal means?
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That would be assuming there were relatives more competent than this joker. Under the circumstances, it would not be prudent to assume that.FSTargetDrone wrote:I want to know how he told his children what he did.Zixinus wrote:I cannot possibly imagine a more stupid way to die. By her own husband to boot.
If this isn't a reason to place them with competent relatives, I don't know what it.
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Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice