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Originally Posted by jeffrey
Suicide by firearm accounts for almost 17k deaths in the US.
Most stats I see keep the sicides in.
I believe that its close to half the total deaths by firearm in the US.
Japan has very strict gun laws, (or maybe its china), strict enough that it should mean there is zero gun deaths, but thats not the case at all.
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Japan has such strict gun laws that the resent assassination of a town mayor at the hands of a Yukaza (mob) leader was pretty much worldwide news. Gun crime is very, very low in Japan.
Suicides? They got plenty. But you can kill yourself with drain cleaner, car exhaust, or, hell, too much water (see hold your wee for a wii contest). If people want to die, or want to kill someone, they will find a way.
However, in the current circumstance, you can be pretty sure that this student would not have been able to kill 32 people and wound countless others with a hunting knife or a bottle of drain cleaner.
Guns have two purposes. Killing people or making them think you are going to kill them. There are no other uses for a handgun that I am aware of. The world would be a better place without them.