factchecking the debate

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by bigrun

What are the other 2/3 deaths from?

dunno..accidental discharge? suicide? thought someone was a deer, self defense?

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

dunno..accidental discharge? suicide? thought someone was a deer, self defense?

Ok, sounds about right...but aren't all those "gun violence"?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Ok, sounds about right...but aren't all those "gun violence"?

i'm not thinking it would be considered gun 'violence' if you were cleaning your gun and it went off and shot you.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i'm not thinking it would be considered gun 'violence' if you were cleaning your gun and it went off and shot you.

I think the numbers are also hard to count because local law enforcement has a lot of latitude on whether to declare a gun death a homicide or not. A child shooting his sibling can be called an "accidental death" rather than an "accidental homicide."

(Note: homicide doesn't mean deliberate; it just means killing of a person by another person.)

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I think the numbers are also hard to count because local law enforcement has a lot of latitude on whether to declare a gun death a homicide or not. A child shooting his sibling can be called an "accidental death" rather than an "accidental homicide."

(Note: homicide doesn't mean deliberate; it just means killing of a person by another person.)

True...

[Danzig]

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[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Danzig

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Someone maybe oughta tell the AP that editorializing a Republican debate with nothing except Obama's blatantly misleading and laughably hole-filled talking points is not, in fact, "Fact Checking".

Lazy drivel, more aptly.