JS-Kit/Echo comments for article at http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2008/07/cnn-still-most-busted-name-in-news.html (7 comments)

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jsid-1215202869-593920  gattsuru at Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:21:09 +0000

What... the... f***?

HOW?!

That's not just bias, that's impressive stupidity. Did they think 30 million gun owners tried to commit suicide a year?


jsid-1215214895-593923  RiddleHSC at Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:41:35 +0000

The sad part is that whoever wrote the original copy probably believed it as it was written.

Silly gun owners, always offing ourselves.


jsid-1215281760-593939  markm at Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:16:00 +0000

That's an impressive combination of innumeracy and bias...


jsid-1215346499-593946  Nancy at Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:14:59 +0000

This comes to show us how much people fear the mere idea of guns but still 55% of the gun death accidents that's a serious enough number.


jsid-1215359385-593954  Kevin Baker at Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:49:45 +0000

This comes to show us how much people fear the mere idea of guns but still 55% of the gun death accidents that's a serious enough number.

More innumeracy?

No, dear Nancy, 55% of suicides in the U.S. are by firearm. Yet, regardless of the fact that the U.S. has something on the order of 280 million privately owned firearms, we rank fifth out of the G8 "industrialized" nations for suicide. It's not that "serious" a number.


jsid-1215360594-593955  Nancy at Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:09:54 +0000

Thanks for the correction, I must have read it wrong


jsid-1215497613-584279  Trackback at Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:13:33 +0000

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Excerpt: Check here and here the slightly amusing history of the report but it appears that 55% percents of gun deaths are suicides.
If most of the gun deaths are suicides then having a gun just makes things a little easier but a person that plans to commit ...
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