re: #45 ggt

GUNS didn’t murder anyone.

Not noted, are the violent murders by others means.

I really dislike the gun-crime statistics. Why is death-by-gun so much worse that other forms of death?

to answer the implied question highlighted, see the CDC’s preliminary report on deaths and mortality for 2010 at .

16065 deaths by assault (homicide). Of those, 11,015 were from firearms. Unspecified and all other means (knives, baseball bats, poisonings, etc) combined to form 5,050 deaths.

Oh, yes, and firearms account for about half of all successful suicides. (19,308 of 37,793).