I have tended to stay out of the RKBA vs gun control diaries for a couple of weeks, because it was like groundhog day - same names same comments ad nauseum.* But an article in the UK Daily Mail piqued my interest, and as I haven't seen it mentioned here, I thought it deserved a short diary.
Cutting to the crunch, it seems that for white Americans who die by gunshot, 80% are suicides. Correspondingly, for African Americans, 80% killed by gunshot are victims of homicide.
A white person is five times as likely to kill themselves with a gun than be shot by another person, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
However for each African-American who commits suicide, five others are shot dead by another.
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Now taking into consideration that 62% of gun owners are white males, and that those white Americans who are victims of homicide are not all gun owners(let's say 50%), then a white gun owner is probably around 10 times more likely to be at the wrong end of a bullet from their own gun, rather than someone else's gun.
So when you want to know who the enemy really is, look in the mirror!
* PS the arguments have become so repetitive, if anyone wants a vacation, send me your login and I will post your comments for you