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PWC: Gun violence in America, explained in 17 maps and charts

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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    2001400ex said:

    Vox aren't the sharpest tools in the shed...

    If you are going to site Australia's gun suicide rate dropping as a leading example of why you should limit guns shouldn't you do a bit more background research on that (i.e. is it really changing anything)?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/27/australias-suicide-crisis-has-peaked-to-a-terrifying-new-height_a_21480647/

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    Yes, the Australian gun laws changed in the late 90s. Notice the drop since then until now? Give the chart a different scale. Dullard.
    AZDuck said:

    Vox aren't the sharpest tools in the shed...

    If you are going to site Australia's gun suicide rate dropping as a leading example of why you should limit guns shouldn't you do a bit more background research on that (i.e. is it really changing anything)?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/27/australias-suicide-crisis-has-peaked-to-a-terrifying-new-height_a_21480647/

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    Your @TheChart is hard as fuck to read, but it looks like Australia's death rate by suicide is as low as it's been since the early 1950's.
    Two morons that can't read.

    From the link...
    In 2015, 3,027 people ended their own lives in Australia. That's 12.6 people in every 100,000.

    Which puts it above the average of where its been for the last almost 100 years. So if you are "bright" enough to write an article that says getting rid of guns will save people from committing suicide and use Australia as the example, shouldn't you at least go spend 30 seconds Googling the actual Australia data to see if it helped before you claim this wonderful benefit?

    Like I said, the Vox folks are not the sharpest tools in the shed.

    And if you are "bright" enough to reply to a simple post pointing out this stupidity without reading/understanding a simple link and plot...well...that is how we coin terms like HondoFS...but in your defense at least you weren't alone?
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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,746 Standard Supporter
    Japan has high suicide rates and they don't need any guns to get it done! People bent on killing themselves always find a way.
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,468
    edited October 2017
    @HoustonHusky

    Your HuffPoAustralia article was unsourced garbage. The chart, which is from the Australian statistics department, is more trustworthy but a shitty chart. Why you posted a HuffPo article and a chart that contradicted it I don't know. In your mind I guess that makes sense.

    Even taking the unsourced 12.6 number, it is well below highest rates listed in the Aussie chart.
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,076
    Sledog said:

    AZDuck said:

    Sledog said:

    AZDuck said:

    pawz said:
    Excellent compilation.

    This is why my default setting on guns is: people who want to keep things more or less as they are need to show me how to make gun ownership safe by developed-world standards.

    Alternatively - treat guns like cars.

    Switzerland does very nicely but I'm not sure how since most adults have an actual assault weapon and ammunition at home.

    This article is total bullshit. Just look where most homicides occur and it'll be democrat controlled and have very strict gun laws. Try the book More Guns Less Crime. By this guy:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kleck

    526 murder victims in Chicago alone so far this year. Hondo's silence is the normal response from the far left.
    https://swissinfo.ch/eng/soldiers-can-keep-guns-at-home-but-not-ammo/970614

    Not the case
    Linky no worky. I even run into Swiss citizens at rifle ranges here in the states because even if they are out of country they turn in there qualification targets. The don't have their Stg57's or SG550'something. They were shooting K31's because they can't have the others here. They buy ammunition at cost from the government and that most towns have shooting ranges. I guess they were all crazy liars.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21379912

    you're the crazy liar, not they
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,468
    BearsWiin said:

    Sledog said:

    AZDuck said:

    Sledog said:

    AZDuck said:

    pawz said:
    Excellent compilation.

    This is why my default setting on guns is: people who want to keep things more or less as they are need to show me how to make gun ownership safe by developed-world standards.

    Alternatively - treat guns like cars.

    Switzerland does very nicely but I'm not sure how since most adults have an actual assault weapon and ammunition at home.

    This article is total bullshit. Just look where most homicides occur and it'll be democrat controlled and have very strict gun laws. Try the book More Guns Less Crime. By this guy:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kleck

    526 murder victims in Chicago alone so far this year. Hondo's silence is the normal response from the far left.
    https://swissinfo.ch/eng/soldiers-can-keep-guns-at-home-but-not-ammo/970614

    Not the case
    Linky no worky. I even run into Swiss citizens at rifle ranges here in the states because even if they are out of country they turn in there qualification targets. The don't have their Stg57's or SG550'something. They were shooting K31's because they can't have the others here. They buy ammunition at cost from the government and that most towns have shooting ranges. I guess they were all crazy liars.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21379912

    you're the crazy liar, not they
    no, no I met this guy once who said that his cousin's little brother was with a Swiss guy once and they all have FULL AUTO machine guns with ANTITANKROCKETATTACHMENTS in their closets and they all shoot them off in the town square because that's how they vote in Switzerland
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    edited October 2017
    This is in the country that @sledog is using to make his point? How do you feel to about communism again?

    All healthy Swiss men aged between 18 and 34 are obliged to do military service and all are issued with assault rifles or pistols which they are supposed to keep at home.
  • HoustonHusky
    HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,021
    edited October 2017

    AZDuck said:

    @HoustonHusky

    Your HuffPoAustralia article was unsourced garbage. The chart, which is from the Australian statistics department, is more trustworthy but a shitty chart. Why you posted a HuffPo article and a chart that contradicted it I don't know. In your mind I guess that makes sense.

    Even taking the unsourced 12.6 number, it is well below highest rates listed in the Aussie chart.

    HuffingtonPost is garbage, but even they aren't Vox-stupid and got a number correct:
    http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by Subject/3303.0~2015~Main Features~Intentional self-harm: key characteristics~8

    One of the main points the Vox moron made was taking away guns saves lives because there will be fewer suicides, yet Australia govt data shows the death rate in 2015 (well after their gun laws were enacted) was above the average for the last 100 years and well within line of historical data (i.e. suicide rates in Australia are not statistically different now from historical averages before the gun laws, directly contradicting the 22 year old "Senior Writer" at Vox).

    You got caught being HondoFS and are just flailing now...
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,968 Founders Club
    2001400ex said:

    This is in the country that @sledog is using to make his point? How do you feel to about communism again?

    All healthy Swiss men aged between 18 and 34 are obliged to do military service and all are issued with assault rifles or pistols which they are supposed to keep at home.

    So Sledog was right
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    2001400ex said:

    This is in the country that @sledog is using to make his point? How do you feel to about communism again?

    All healthy Swiss men aged between 18 and 34 are obliged to do military service and all are issued with assault rifles or pistols which they are supposed to keep at home.

    So Sledog was right
    You and @Sledog hate communism except for when you love it.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,968 Founders Club
    Fuck off dumbass. You got schooled by the Sledog