Notice that the percentage of gun suicide stays the same, so in reality, gun suicides did not increase, it was other types of suicides that increase, as well as less car accidents.
These are the types of statistics the anti-gunners love:
Gun deaths have outpaced motor vehicle fatalities in Colorado since 2009, but data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment indicate the state has passed yet another milestone in death statistics.
For the first time in 2012, suicides by firearm alone surpassed motor vehicle fatalities, with 457 Coloradans dying in fatal car crashes and 532 taking their own lives using guns.
Source: http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_24626431/gun-suicides-now-outpace-traffic-fatalities-colorado
Yet the same article mentions that in 2012, 673 people died from poisoning or drug overdose, 679 sustained fatal injuries from a fall. So what are you gonna do, liberals? Ban hiking? Ban drugs? Oops, already banned.
Gun suicides didn’t take the biggest chunk of the increase. Fatal, self-inflicted gunshot wounds increased by nearly 29 percent while suicides by other means increased by nearly 64 percent, Gun-related and non-gun-related suicides are approximately equally common. While other types of suicide increased most rapidly between the years 2000 and 2001, gun suicides experienced their biggest jump between 2011 and 2012.
Of course, “Suicide by other means increases by 64%” is not a headline that sells papers, you’ve got to blame the guns first and hope people don’t read till the end of the article.
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Suicide is forbidden by Roman Law. The penalty is death!
Line from the comedy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
The anti-freedom types are focusing on suicide because they have lost the debate on crime and homicides. I do not think they will gain much traction with suicide.
Loved that play/movie!
You’re right about them lacking traction, suicide is a personal choice, Euthanasia is legal in Oregon, so the bleeding hearts can go to hell.