12-08-2015, 03:14 PM
(12-08-2015, 02:37 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Are these numbers also considering suicides? I heard (and haven't checked it's veracity) that suicides make up 60% of the gun deaths in the US. Regardless of the actual percentage, I think including suicide by gun is disingenuous, because people that want to kill themselves, will kill themselves regardless of whether they use a gun or not.
My understanding of the statistic is that it is assault by firearm. This is based on looking at the database the data was pulled from and that being the most likely category used. They separate out self-harm.
