Fentanyl deaths greatly exceed all firearm fatalities including suicide and legal self defense

[Lennie]

States look for solutions as US fentanyl deaths keep rising

With fentanyl driving fatal overdoses to record levels in the U.S., state governments are scrambling for solutions.

apnews.com

In the US, gun deaths for all causes are about 45,000 to 46,000. Documented fentanyl deaths are over 66,000 per year, however the actual number is probably much higher.

The anti-gun news media focuses on guns when their message should be about things that are much deadlier. And the majority of what the media calls gun violence is really violence between drug dealing gangs.

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[Alexx1401]

Looking for solutions huh? They must be looking with a blindfold on.

 

[cooper]

Just think what the numbers would be without the use of Narcan ?

 

[Tlock]

How is most of the fentanyl getting into the US?? Just wait tell the great Joe Biden opens the southern border up more next month and just let's people and drugs flow in. Wish we had big don back in the white house to build that boarder wall and ship illegal immigrants back

 

[ma96782]

BUT, But, but......the illegal use of fentanyl is already illegal for everyone.

So now......Amerika needs to work on making guns illegal for everyone too?

Aloha, Mark

PS.......

 

[TTSX]

Good. More dead addicts is more better for everyone

 

[ma96782]

Aloha, Mark

 

[Tlock]

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Aloha, Mark

That makes sense to me!!!

 

[FALshot]

Southwest border encounters increased to their highest recorded level in fiscal 2021.
The Border Patrol reported 1,659,206 encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border last fiscal year, narrowly exceeding the prior highs of 1,643,679 in 2000 and 1,615,844 in 1986.

What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 7 charts

The U.S. Border Patrol reported more than 1.6 million encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2021 fiscal year.

www.pewresearch.org

Even with international travel limited over the past year and a half, cross-border distribution has increased, usually from Mexico, via China.

Fentanyl — What is it and where does it come from? - Digital Journal

Fentanyl is one of the deadliest opioids in the world. Fueled by the coronavirus pandemic and an increase in fentanyl use.

www.digitaljournal.com

(From the article.)
"Illicit fentanyl was responsible for nearly three-quarters of the more than 93,000 fatal drug overdoses in the United States in 2020," Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said at Justice Department headquarters.

 

[SavageGerbil]

I remember reading a report on fentanyl ages ago, before the problem became quite so pronounced. One of the big concerns was the fact that it was lab created drug, and one that's both cheap and easy to synthesize. It wasn't a problem at the time, but the report pointed it out as certain to become a big problem as soon as it caught on due to the ease and profitability

 

[GWS]

Just think what the numbers would be without the use of Narcan ?

At $400 a pop.

 

[Tinman357]

Ban Narcan. It's a self solving problem after that.

 

[RobMa]

Nope, nope, Verboten!! We shall ignore any and all other causes of death and only continue to focus on anti-gun propaganda, turning every one of the sheeple against gun ownership and vilifying those who support the dreaded 2nd amendment!

Ja, mein Herr Ja, mein Herr Ja, mein Herr (insert mindless anti-gun zealots here)

 

[Longwalkhome]

Brandon is getting rid of title 42 restrictions on the border the 23rd of April. The border will be wide open with the herd moving drugs for the cartels. Homeless will fill the streets and drugs will be their income. Millions are expected to cross.

It doesn't matter as all those mean tweets are gone now.

 

[BrentN]

Fentanyl problem solved if we just limit importation to 10 doses each.

 

[kmk1012]

Brandon is getting rid of title 42 restrictions on the border the 23rd of April. The border will be wide open with the herd moving drugs for the cartels. Homeless will fill the streets and drugs will be their income. Millions are expected to cross.

It doesn't matter as all those mean tweets are gone now.

Very sad truth!

 

[MichaelH]

Seems to me there is plenty of reporting on both, though for overdoses there is less specific coverage of individual junkies killing themselves by accident than people on people gun violence. One is crime and the other is a social/mental health problem (sure dealing is a crime, but no one held down the user to cause an overdose.) Fear drives newscasting, and a perception of increased or high crime increases fear, which means crime gets reported on more than social problems like addiction. Overdoses are awful, but firearms related injuries and deaths are viewed as more awful because the injured or killed are often unwilling victims. It's heartbreaking if your brother or sister is a junkie who accidentially kills him/herself via overdose, but it's a crime/injustice and more newsworthy if killed by a firearm wielded by someone else.

Coverage of individual opiate overdose deaths is more analogous to coverage of suicide by handguns...neither is particularly newsworthy outside of a local community, though both are low-grade newsworthy as societal problems that hurt communities and families. Opiate overdoses only get elevated to newsworthy in a geographic news market when there is an unusual rash of them or experimenting minor teens get killed taking illegal drugs they thought might be safe. Considering many of the comments on this form that show absolutely zero compassion for those dying of overdoses, is it at all surprising that the topic gets less news coverage?

 

[WillametteWill]

According to CDC stats, 6 out of 10 deaths from "gun violence" are suicides, one out of 10 are accidental. That leaves only 3 out of 10 that could be assaults, but wait, these include lawful intervention by police and citizens. So the real number for firearms is much, much lower.

Yet the folks that like to include suicide in their number to pad the statistics are the ones who just opened up Oregon to out of state folks coming here to commit lawful suicide. (Not a judgement here, just a stunning lack of intellectual honesty on their part.)

 

[kmk1012]

According to CDC stats, 6 out of 10 deaths from "gun violence" are suicides, one out of 10 are accidental. That leaves only 3 out of 10 that could be assaults, but wait, these include lawful intervention by police and citizens. So the real number for firearms is much, much lower.

Yet the folks that like to include suicide in their number to pad the statistics are the ones who just opened up Oregon to out of state folks coming here to commit lawful suicide. (Not a judgement here, just a stunning lack of intellectual honesty on their part.)

Dang you and your facts! I enjoy your responses to certain subjects that always seem to bring common sense, too bad that it's an uphill battle lately.

 

[HighlandLofts]

I love happy drug endings.
To bad they don't give it away for free.