Dog Soldier
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RX79G and your point is? We also have the best gun laws ranking number #1. The Anti Gun folks like to also use those numbers.
Far more people die from prescription medicine than firearm.
google is your friend in 10 seconds you will see he is rightWhere are you getting these numbers from? Specifically, where is data that suggests more people die from prescription drug overdoses than firearms in the US?
About 84 people commit suicide every day in this country. A firearm is the most common method. I've seen this come up often and think some guys are reading more into this than there is. You're doctor is trying to determine if you are a suicide risk. No more no less.
google is your friend in 10 seconds you will see he is right
Humor him he needs it. He has been on the forum 2 years and has two "Likes".
I googled for 10 minutes, and couldn't come up with solid numbers. There were around 40,000 gun related deaths in 2013, and about 24,000 prescription drug overdoses that year.google is your friend in 10 seconds you will see he is right
Not really. Suicide rates are higher where guns are more common. It isn't causal, but there is correlation.Suicide means is driven by availability but rates are not. A greater portion are with guns where guns are common, same situation for cities with an easily accessible tall bridge.
Mike
I figured it was over a year since my last one, so why not get it done since the Ins. pays for it anyway. The nurse is kind of pleasent and we get along, until she said I was one of the lucky ones selected to take a survey. They know I carry and it never even came up in 5 years that I have used this doctor, only because when you go to a doctors office you sometimes need to empty your pockets, or drop your drawers.
So I took a look at the survey, and it asked a lot of round about questions that could be used, "more likely if Obama or Hillary were in office", to make a list of gun owners over 60. Along with a Psycological evaluation, "in a hidden fashion".
So I asked her if she would take such an evasive test, she said no way. I answered good, because I was just going to tell you I was leaving if that was a precursor to taking a physical.
The stupid part is that they had me down for 3 diseases that I never had, on my record. RA, COPD, and something else.
I was realy pissed off that this stuff was on my medical record, along with drugs I have never even taken or perscribed.
So be careful when you go to see your friendly doctor, because we don't know how friendly he really is.
Drug Overdoses (of prescription and illegal drugs) account for several thousand more deaths per annum than firearms deaths.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/health/drug-overdose-deaths-2014/Where are you getting these numbers from? Specifically, where is data that suggests more people die from prescription drug overdoses than firearms in the US?
He is incorrect and hopefully he will provide us his "special" data.Far more people die from prescription medicine than firearms. Should your Doctor notify you of the deaths connected to his prescriptions?
The link is broken.
However, we are still waiting for the original member (dog soldier) who made this claim, to provide data to support it.
He specifically stated that prescription drug ODs account for more deaths per year (in the US) than firearms.
I've yet to see any data that supports that.
Wyoming has the highest suicide rate in the US at 29.6 out of 100,000. That's 6.6 more than even Alaska, and 17 more than the national average.
Everyone on this thread seems pretty cavalier about suicide - just a choice people make. Those who have had their spouses or kids kill themselves rather than getting help for depression would not see it that way. Nor does the medical profession.What are you suggesting with the inclusion of this factoid?