Mental problems? No worries, here's a gun...

[brian ross]

""I now have a Masters degree and work in IT.""

Arts im thinking, or Masterbation lol

Politics, History and a minor in Geography. Does it really matter? IT covers a lot of things, just as my career has.

[Neferti]

""I now have a Masters degree and work in IT.""

Arts im thinking, or Masterbation lol

Politics, History and a minor in Geography. Does it really matter? IT covers a lot of things, just as my career has.

What about the Dr of Divinity you boasted about over at OzPol?

[brian ross]

""I now have a Masters degree and work in IT.""

Arts im thinking, or Masterbation lol

Politics, History and a minor in Geography. Does it really matter? IT covers a lot of things, just as my career has.

What about the Dr of Divinity you boasted about over at OzPol?

I have that as well but it is a lesser degree compared to a Masters.

[Bobby]

It doesn't matter if it's suicide or murder.

From the point of your argument it most certainly does.

Not in terms of firearms causing so much grief in society.

33,000 people per year is about 90 people per day or nearly 4 per hour -
about one person every 15 minutes dies from a gunshot in the USA.

Suicide rate in Australia 2016 - no guns - The suicide rate in Australia was 11.7 deaths per 100,000 people

Suicide rate in USA 2016 - guns - The suicide rate in USA was 13.26 per 100,000 people

Little difference. In Australia hanging played a large factor. Do we blame rope?

No - but we can spare a thought for the people who die every 15 minutes from gunshot wounds -
many of them murdered.

[BigP]

It doesn't matter if it's suicide or murder.

From the point of your argument it most certainly does.

Not in terms of firearms causing so much grief in society.

33,000 people per year is about 90 people per day or nearly 4 per hour -
about one person every 15 minutes dies from a gunshot in the USA.

Suicide rate in Australia 2016 - no guns - The suicide rate in Australia was 11.7 deaths per 100,000 people

Suicide rate in USA 2016 - guns - The suicide rate in USA was 13.26 per 100,000 people

Little difference. In Australia hanging played a large factor. Do we blame rope?

No - but we can spare a thought for the people who die every 15 minutes from gunshot wounds -
many of them murdered.

You cant compare the US with Australia Bob

[Rorschach]

Death by firearm is not a good measure of mental health.

The USA has a rate of 11 times what we have in Australia.

Suicide has many causes... what we can draw though is that pressures in the modern world are roughly the same in some countries. But not all... Japan and France have higher suicide rates than Australia and the USA.

Not all suicides in the USA are by firearm BTW.

[BigP]

""I now have a Masters degree and work in IT.""

Arts im thinking, or Masterbation lol

Politics, History and a minor in Geography. Does it really matter? IT covers a lot of things, just as my career has.

What about the Dr of Divinity you boasted about over at OzPol?

I have that as well but it is a lesser degree compared to a Masters.

For a edikated man Brain, use is a bit thik..lol

[Bobby]

Death by firearm is not a good measure of mental health.

The USA has a rate of 11 times what we have in Australia.

Suicide has many causes... what we can draw though is that pressures in the modern world are roughly the same in some countries. But not all... Japan and France have higher suicide rates than Australia and the USA.

Not all suicides in the USA are by firearm BTW.

But it's just simply not safe to have firearms in a house.
Kids get them & shoot each other or their parents.
Drunken people pick them up & shoot
someone then don't even remember what they've done.
People pick up a gun during a heated argument and get so angry
they shoot another person on the spur of the moment
then spend the rest of their life in jail for one moment of madness.

Guns are bad news.
You're safer not having a gun in the house.

[Black Orchid]

You're also not safe having kitchen knives in the house.

[Bobby]

You're also not safe having kitchen knives in the house.

That's true too.
There are nut cases everywhere.
I prefer to live alone.