{"id":3502,"date":"2012-02-24T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/02\/24\/interesting-statistic\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:17:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:17:45","slug":"interesting-statistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Statistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16206,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boatsandbullets.blogspot.com\\\/2012\\\/02\\\/anti-gun-bait-and-switch.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250207094605\\\/https:\\\/\\\/boatsandbullets.blogspot.com\\\/2012\\\/02\\\/anti-gun-bait-and-switch.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 19:37:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 03:10:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 03:10:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boatsandbullets.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/anti-gun-bait-and-switch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John at the Boats and Bullets blog<\/a> had the fortitude both to read through a Media Matters article and then&nbsp;to find something useful in it. He&#8217;s a better man than I!<\/p>\n<p>The MMFA article was quoting &#8220;research&#8221; by well-known anti-gun Harvard researchers David Hemenway and Matthew Miller regarding firearms used in suicide attempts. What John found was interesting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Let&#8217;s read that last sentence again&#8230; &#8220;Attempts involving drugs or cutting, which account for more than 90% of all suicidal acts, prove fatal far less often.&#8221; So guns are used less than 10% of the time&#8230; and they&#8217;re the biggest problem? Interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As the &#8220;Coffee Talk&#8221; lady used to say on SNL&#8230; &#8220;Talk amongst yourselves.&#8221;<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go and read John&#8217;s blog post for the full story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John at the Boats and Bullets blog had the fortitude both to read through a Media Matters article and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3930,2544,1556],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boats-and-bullets-blog","tag-media-matters","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7735,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/7735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}