More Guns, More Suicide

[greenland360]

for once i agree with you, guns should be banned. Gun control does indeed work! just ask hitler, or maybe stalin, or maybe or Mao tse tung, or Kim Jong ill or castro!

[56Edify]

Hey Perry, why do liberal assclowns like you think a person has a right to do drugs, have abortions, etc, but if they wish to end their life with a gun.....you object?

[56Edify]

"So let's take them away."

One thing for sure, a pasty little girly-man like you is never going to be the one taking a gun from anybody.

[56Edify]

If I thought it would tempt you......I would buy you a friggin' gun

[zzzasdfgh]

They found out in cannada after they took away the guns from depressed people that guns were replaced with high places. More high structures = more suicides.. mybe we should just treat there illness

[rgmc4life]

They ones who are weak minded that commit suicide will find a way gun or no gun dumass

[rgmc4life]

Less guns more crime Less guns more murder less guns more death less guns less freedom i hope God sends you to hell and when your sent i hope it's slow and painful

[prettyricki3]

You are an odd individual! Maybe I should give you a gun so you can commit suicide.

Oh and if people are in the state of mind to commit suicide they will regardless..unfortunately

[PerryLogan]

Not really. A police state is a society in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population, especially by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional republic.

[bigangelsfan1234]

your not to smart are ya? it would take a "secret police force" to make sure all the population is disarmed of their guns. by their very action of disarming the public they would be acting outside of the constitution because the constitution says that the people can keep and bear arms

[PerryLogan]

History has proven you wrong. Gun-control laws in the rest of the developed world have not led to oppressive dictatorships. Places with plenty of guns--like Baghdad--are hellholes.

[bigangelsfan1234]

germany 13 million murdered, USSR 40 million murdered, china 20 million murdered, turkey 1.5 armenians murdered, uganda 300,000 murdered, cambodia 1 million, looks like history has proven you wrong

[PerryLogan]

On the contrary. Americans are awash in guns--and we have lost our freedom. Why didn't the gun guys get out there and do something?

[PerryLogan]

The American Nazi Party is adamantly pro-gun. So are Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Klansmen, Racists, & Anti-Semites. It's mostly a white-guy thing.

[bigangelsfan1234]

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

Hitler, April 11 1942

[PerryLogan]

So Hitler backs you up? Cool.

[bigangelsfan1234]

yea history does back me up by showing how hitler removed all firearms from the people and you can see what happned. 13 million people were murdered

[PerryLogan]

And yet here's America--totally awash in guns--and we have lost our freedoms. This proves that guns are useless in protecting our freedom.

[MediaProfessors]

please inform us what freedoms we have lost that we should have used guns to keep

[bigangelsfan1234]

"To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason

[bigangelsfan1234]

"Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell `Fire!' in a crowded theater." Peter Venetoklis

[bigangelsfan1234]

"...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." [...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.] Lucius Annaeus ca. 4 BC-65 AD

[bigangelsfan1234]

guess what the US will never get rid of guns. especially since parker v. dc will be affirmed in the supreme court.

[PerryLogan]

We'll have to figure out a way. The gun guys will go on saying guns are harmless, even when they're standing waist-deep in corpses.

[MIT1369]

You obviously suffer from:

Hoplophobia, (pronounced [ˌhɔpləˈfoʊbiə]), from the Greek hoplon, or weapon, is defined as the "fear of firearms" [1] or alternatively, a fear of weapons in general, and describes a specific phobia.

[PerryLogan]

It's nothing compared to a gun guy's fear of losing his guns.

[bigangelsfan1234]

how can you say that an inanimate object causes a person to commit suicide? that makes no since. you need to just remember that "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

[PerryLogan]

Sorry, but that's what the stats prove. Guns correlate with higher suicide and murder rates. Guns are a massive public health problem that costs thousands of lives and billions of dollars every year.

[bigangelsfan1234]

guns are a health problem? do you even read what your writing? it is impossible for a gun to cause someone to kill themselves. a person who is mentally ill will find one way or another to kill themselves it is not the gun that is doing it. let me guess your one of thoes liberals that want to ban all guns because the people dont know what they are doing

[PerryLogan]

You lose your rights when they start hurting other people. Guns hurt all of us. In all the civilized world, only America has failed to figure this out.

[bigangelsfan1234]

When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".

[bigangelsfan1234]

"Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell `Fire!' in a crowded theater." Peter Venetoklis

[PerryLogan]

Except that, unlike Mr. Venetoklis's tongue, guns are specifically designed to kill. So let's take them away.

[MediaProfessors]

sure take away law abiding citizens guns so when some criminal breaks into there house with a gun they'll be defenseless. Everyone knows criminals will still get guns even if they are illegal.

[Darthbelal]

Nearly incoherent video. I'll point out that because someone misuses a gun to kill themselves or others, that misuse isn't a justification for the banning of firearms. Anymore than someone falsely screaming "fire" in a theater, or making incoherent videos on youtube is a justification to abolish the right to free speech.

[Coowallsky]

Typical socialist.

[Coowallsky]

Odd thing. Japan has extremely tight gun control laws and yet suicides are rampant.

So much for more guns more suicides.

[PerryLogan]

If they had more guns, they'd have more suicides. See how that works?

[Coowallsky]

No. You haven't shown there to be a causal relationship.

[PerryLogan]

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that suicide rates among children, women and men of all ages are higher in states where more households have guns. The study appears in the April 2007 issue of The Journal of Trauma. "We found that where there are more guns, there are more suicides," said Matthew Miller, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at HSPH and lead author of the study.

[bogtrotter52]

What a complete asshat. I hope a carload of methheads or a carload of crackheads comes to visit you at home. After all, you are perfect as a target. Too stupid or cowardly to defend yourself.

[PerryLogan]

May the souls of the slain children haunt your dreams.

[PerryLogan]

4/1/07. Minnesota Passes Concealed Carry Law. Deaths by Firearms Hit Record Numbers. Go figure. "The state Department of Health has recorded a sharp rise in injuries and deaths from assaults with firearms since 2003. In the five years before that, such casualties averaged 172 a year in Minnesota. In the next three years, the average was 327, capped by a record 395 in 2005."

[Coowallsky]

Funny thing, you don't cite how many of those deaths occured as a result of concealed carry. Typical intellectual laziness.

[PerryLogan]

Criminals From Mexico Buy Their Guns Legally in the US

A report from an Arizona television station shows just how weak our gun laws in the United States. Criminals from other countries are getting guns from ours-- and they're getting them directly from currently legal outlets.

[cramsa]

It's sad that you are the only one to reply your own video...

[PerryLogan]

Whatever you do, don't get sad.

[PerryLogan]

A survey of 2400 drivers carried out by David Hemenway and his colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that motorists who carry guns in their cars are far more likely to indulge in road rage - driving aggressively or making obscene gestures - than motorists without guns. Some 23 per cent of gun-toting drivers admitted making rude signs, compared with 16 per cent of those who did not carry guns (Accident Analysis and Prevention, DOI:10.1016/j.aap.2005.12.014)