If Abundant Guns Make Us Safe, Why Isn't America The Safest Place On Earth?

Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/gun-cartoons-and-gun-violence.html

Suicide in the Home in Relation to Gun Ownership, Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH; Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH; et al, The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 327, No. 7, August 13, 1992
Key Statistic: The presence of one or more guns in the home increases the risk of suicide in the home nearly five times. 
http://www.vpc.org/studies/whersuic.htm

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For young Americans, 15-24, suicide (60% by firearm) is the third leading cause of death

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/for-young-americans-15-24-suicide.html

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Firearm injury and death charts for the U.S. (and the world) 

are available at the following University of Pennsylvania webpage. 

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ficap/resourcebook/pdf/monograph.pdf             

There are over 40% more firearm suicides than firearm homicides in the United States.

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Guns in homes increase risk of death and firearm-related violence

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100204/Guns-in-homes-can-increase-risk-of-death-and-firearm-related-violence.aspx

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Guns in home increase likelihood of violent death

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full

Second Amendment Evangelists are not only politically wrong.
They are wrong psychologically, philosophically and morally.