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**Hugh** · 19-01-2013, 10:48

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Originally Posted by toonlight

Well hammers & baseball bat killed more people in USA than fire arms.. matt look up the figure in the FBI web site, crime figures > then you'll see fire arm are 11th in cause of deaths. An tool can be a weapon may it be a spanner, wrench, handles etc I hope you get the picture.... firearms are for hunting too if you in the wild or live remotely in sticks too... deer rut season in scotland comes to mind, game shooting etc.

People kill people not firearms, a little hint a firearm has trigger, that has to be pulled for it to fire... maybe a human finger? perhaps...

Thanks for the feed back matt also...you've been a blast to reply to

Peace out Toonlight

Do you have a link for those stats, please, as the CDC figures I found completely contradict your statement - linky

They state that guns were used in two thirds of murders, and half of suicides.

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Homicides - Method and Location of Injury

Firearms were used in 66.5% of homicides, followed by sharp instruments (12.9%) and blunt instruments (7.0%). No other single method was used in >3.7% of homicides (Table 9). Firearms were the most common method used in homicides of males (72.1%) and females (48.8%) (Table 12).
Hanging/strangulation/suffocation was more than six times more common among female homicide decedents than among males (10.5% and 1.6%, respectively). A house or apartment was the most common location of homicide for both males and females (46.5% and 74.0%, respectively). The next most common location of homicide for males was a street or highway (24.2%), a parking lot or public garage (5.2%), and a commercial/retail area (4.1% each); for females, the next most common locations were a street or highway (6.7%), a natural area (3.1%), and a motor vehicle (2.3%) (Table 12).

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Suicides - Method and Location of Injury

Firearms were used in the majority (51.8%) of suicide deaths, followed by hanging/strangulation/suffocation (24.7%) and poisoning (17.2%) (Table 5). The most common method used by male suicide decedents was a firearm (56.7%), followed by hanging/strangulation/suffocation (25.3%). Among females, poisons were used most often (36.9%) followed by firearms (33.8%). The most common place of self-inflicted injury was a house or an apartment (76.4%), followed by natural areas (4.0%) and streets or highways (3.5%). A total of 160 (1.6%) suicides occurred in a jail or prison setting (142 males and 18 females) (Table 5).

btw, there has not been many reports of someone going into a school and killing twenty young children and six adults, or going into a cinema and killing 12 and injuring 58 with a baseball bat or a hammer.