and heres more....this is deaths ......i will get the ones on robberies, injuries et al in a moment
This examination of firearm related deaths in Australia between 1991 and 2001 focuses on the five main types of fatal firearm injury: suicide, homicide, accidents, legal intervention (ie deaths as a result of law enforcement officers performing their duties), and those deaths classified as undetermined by the coroner. The examination finds a 47 per cent decrease in annual numbers of firearms related deaths between 1991 and 2001, with a fall in the number of suicides accounting for the largest part of that decrease. Nine out of 10 firearm related deaths involved males. Compared to firearm related suicides and accidents, where less than 10 per cent involved the death of a female, a higher proportion of firearm related homicides involved a female victim (33%). Persons under the age of 15 years were least likely to die as a result of a firearm related injury. Males and females who suffered a fatal firearms injury tended to follow a similar age distribution, with persons aged between 24 and 34 years accounting for the largest number of firearm related deaths. There appears to be a shift in age related risk between 1991 and 2001. In 1991, males aged between 15 and 24 years had the highest risk of firearm related fatal injury (rate of 9.5%), whereas in 2001 males aged 65 years and older had the highest risk (rate of 4.9%). A hunting rifle was the type of firearm most commonly involved in firearm related deaths, although there has been an increase in the use of handguns. The paper also discusses the implications of these findings for research and policy. The availability of accurate and complete information concerning the type of firearm used in suicide and accidental deaths, as well as in homicide, has important implications for policies such as the newly introduced policy governing handguns; while the finding that suicide has consistently accounted for the majority of firearm related deaths has implications for the requirement that health professionals must notify Firearms Registrars if a person who possesses a firearms licence becomes mentally unstable.
i have a low regard for people who while wallowing in their 1000 thread count egyptian cotton sheets, someone else has no bed to even sleep on.......and also the corporation f*** that dont mind shafting and ripping people off while they get they giant bonus payments, while destroying the planet, and when the company they led down the merry highway goes bust, and the shareholders lose all their money.......
you see indy, there was a time where i was like you......i am jewish indy (you know the 'chosen people" hahaha)............i lived the high life, i simply lived on my interest, had a beautiful apartment, lots of lifes little luxuries, blue-chip shares invested, then when i found out what that company was doing to the indigenous people of where they were mining, i was outraged....... and then one of my companies went bust, causing me to loose nearly everything........all while those companies executives where patting each other on the back and giving out golden hand-shakes..... and you know what?? it was the 'little' people that pulled me through...those execs couldna given a toss if i lost everything
through my depths of despair came so much love and warmth......more warmth than any egyptian cotton sheets could give me
same old points bought up time and time again.....
1. self defense 2. the government is out to get us 3. because it sez it in the constitution... 4. 'out of my cold, dead hands'
your sure to get a rise robbie, more so than ANY obama/bush thread..... anyway, i dont want americans to disarm, i just want them to look at the cold hard facts of counties with tight gun control, and how it does work...
the appetite line-up....bodhi, you cant out music me. i worked in the recording industry for 4 years, did 2 tours with guns n roses for frontier touring company, and went out with the bass player of a band called king of the sun who supported them on their first australian tour.......
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RE: On the day when another maniac goes off the rails........
gotta love merc....she SO aussie