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This article is in response to one of the anti gun extremists trying to use the shooting of the reporter to push gun laws that wouldn't have stopped that shooter, or any criminal from getting a gun....this is addressing an anti gunner who says gun control would stop suicides...
Gun Control & Suicide Rates: Ezra Klein's False Claim of a Causal Relationship | National Review Online
Gun-control is not a causal factor in reducing suicide rates. According to the data compiled by the World Health Organization, the story is much the same elsewhere: Developed Western nations such as Hungary, Poland, France, Belgium, and Austria all have higher suicide rates than the United States — and all have stricter gun-control regimes. As much as Ezra Klein and Vox want to use suicide rates as a tool to attack American’s Second Amendment rights, the data don’t support their case.
Read more at: Gun Control & Suicide Rates: Ezra Klein's False Claim of a Causal Relationship | National Review Online
Gun Control & Suicide Rates: Ezra Klein's False Claim of a Causal Relationship | National Review Online
Gun-control is not a causal factor in reducing suicide rates. According to the data compiled by the World Health Organization, the story is much the same elsewhere: Developed Western nations such as Hungary, Poland, France, Belgium, and Austria all have higher suicide rates than the United States — and all have stricter gun-control regimes. As much as Ezra Klein and Vox want to use suicide rates as a tool to attack American’s Second Amendment rights, the data don’t support their case.
Read more at: Gun Control & Suicide Rates: Ezra Klein's False Claim of a Causal Relationship | National Review Online
