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Default New report: Easier access to guns means more violent deaths

On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 14:17:34 -0000 (UTC), "Dove Tail"
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Anyone who says that easy access to firearms is not the primary
problem, is just telling fairy tales.


A new report affirms what we already know: Easier access to guns means
more violent deaths


LA Times http://tinyurl.com/y7uxcm75


"...So who led the pack in gun-suicide rates, according to the Violence
Policy Center? Montana, where two-thirds of households have firearms
and where the gun-suicide rate was 15.54 per 100,000 residents, more
than twice the national rate of 7.1. The lowest gun-suicide rate was in
New Jersey, at 1.97 per 100,000, and where only 17.4% of households
owned firearms..."


How is suicide a violent death? Seems pretty calm to me.
Murder is a violent death and the murder rate has gone down in spite
of millions of new guns being sold every year.