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He (and those like him) cannot admit that those who take their own lives are the problems. So much for not blaming a car in a head on collision like blaming a gun for the suicide........
Here's a few facts to keep in mind (CDC and Oregon Health Authority)
Over the last 5 years:
1- Oregon's suicide rate (all methods) has been increasing each year at an (un)healthy rate.
2- Where firearms are concerned, it is pretty consistent at 83% of all gun related deaths
2a- Homicides are about 12-15% each year. Legal intervention and accidents make up the remainder. in 2013,
3- Suicides over the last 5 years where a firearm is used are fluctuating just over 50%.
2b- the Northwest and mid-west in general have a suicide problem.
3a- This is a change from before the 5-year mark when it could range from between ~60-75%.
In summary, more people in Oregon are committing suicide, they are using fewer firearms to do it with, and it makes up a huge majority of the gun related deaths in our state.
I could go on about homicides (and why background checks/gun control wouldn't work), but what the above starts to show is that we have a mental health issue when it comes to deaths were a firearm was used. NOT 'gun-violence'. (anyone shocked?)
However, you can count on the gun-control crowd to push criminal homicide (i.e. fear) to the masses combined with the suicide rate (amplification of fear). It has to make me wonder if they've lost their minds and just how far they are willing to cut-off their nose to win more gun-control laws to save face and self-esteem at the expense of actually caring about the why and how to save actual lives of people.
Oh why couldn't it have been him.Make sure you checkout his report in .PDF form (link in blue).
Take your meds first it you are faint of heart.
http://www.blumenauer.house.gov/ind...eleases-gun-safety-report&catid=63&Itemid=220
From his Introduction
I understand the complicated American relationship with guns. I grew up with guns. Some of my earliest memories are of pistols owned by my father and kept at home. Like many children, I knew where they were and I played with them. I can still vividly remember my ears ringing from an incident when a bullet discharged in our concrete basement....
Years later, tragedy struck my own family. My brother, who suffered from depression, disappeared. He had dropped out of sight before, but this time was different because he didn't come back. Several years later his body, a bottle of alcohol, and a gun were found in a deserted spot in the Mount Hood Forest where he had taken his own life....
I think his brother was a coward. He drank his bottle before he could shoot himself. So why didn't bubblegum head blame the alcohol for getting him to the point of pulling the trigger. Yep blame the gun not the IDIOT.
Yup... if the irony doesn't get you, the hypocrisy will. His brother could have just as easily driven off a cliff, jumped from a bridge, or hooked a hose to is muffler pipe. Using this example as a basis to trample of the citizens 2AR's is bullbubblegum, complete and utter bullbubblegum.So I'm thinking out loud here regarding the rise in suicide rates in Oregon.......Oregon has the assisted suicide law on its books and apparently people are willing to move here to use it (i.e. Brittany Maynard).
Is this law driving the increase in suicide rates or are "assisted" cases tracked separately?
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