08-03-2010, 06:09 PM
Hi,
Nice link. Couple of things jump out: suicide is over 1/2 the total gun related deaths. Banning guns will probably not make much of a difference here, there still will be ropes, highway overpasses, exhaust fumes, etc. Then there's the fact that cars are much deadlier than guns. Seeing as how guns are meant to be deadly and cars aren't, maybe there's a lesson to be learned -- perhaps about drinking and driving, perhaps about actually needing to know how to drive before being issued a license, perhaps both.
Natural selection doesn't say that the inferior *always* get culled and the superior *never* get culled. It just says that the inferior get culled more often than the superior. Indeed, in terms of evolution, that is the definition of inferior and superior.
--Pete
(08-03-2010, 04:35 PM)kandrathe Wrote: Unfortunately, the victim is often not the perpetrator of the stupidity.
ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/...able18.pdf
Nice link. Couple of things jump out: suicide is over 1/2 the total gun related deaths. Banning guns will probably not make much of a difference here, there still will be ropes, highway overpasses, exhaust fumes, etc. Then there's the fact that cars are much deadlier than guns. Seeing as how guns are meant to be deadly and cars aren't, maybe there's a lesson to be learned -- perhaps about drinking and driving, perhaps about actually needing to know how to drive before being issued a license, perhaps both.
Natural selection doesn't say that the inferior *always* get culled and the superior *never* get culled. It just says that the inferior get culled more often than the superior. Indeed, in terms of evolution, that is the definition of inferior and superior.
--Pete
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