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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (893442)10/13/2015 2:15:20 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1573076
 
CJ, according to the Washington Post, most of that decline was due to a reduction in the amount of suicides by firearm:
It seems reasonably clear, then, that the gun buyback led to a large decline in suicides, and weaker but real evidence that it reduced homicides as well. Such a buyback isn't in the cards in the U.S. anytime soon — an equivalent buyback here would entail the destruction of 40 million guns — but the data suggest Howard might have a case.
Seems to make sense. For a person considering suicide, a gun in the hand makes that fateful decision a lot easier to make than a knife or a rope.

Reminds me of when Hulk Hogan was at a low point in his post-wrestling life. He was holding a handgun and was thinking about how easy it would be to pull the trigger and end his own pain, but a phone call from Laila Ali broke him out of his mental state and essentially saved his life.

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