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Originally posted by uno
What is your hangup with suicide?
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Read the whole thread and you'll see how it's relevant.
People in this thread have made the argument that we Americans should be embarrassed by our "gun problem"...
I'm wondering why the French can't get a handle on their Suicide problem. In the US you are more likely to be killed with a firearm than in France. In France you are more likely to die some kind of volent death than in the US.
In france there are 58% more suicides than in the US, pushing their violent death rate to 22.67 (annual deaths per 100,000 people) compared to 18.57 in the US.
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvintl.html
So which country is safer?
If America has a gun Problem then France has a Suicide Problem.