Gun suicides up, murders down in US cities, CDC finds

[koalabear]

The rate of suicide using guns has gone up in most of the 50 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas, but the murder rate has fallen, according to new statistics released Thursday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is reasserting its right to study and report on gun deaths, says the economy is a clear factor in the rise in suicides, as is access to guns.

Thursday’s report focuses on big metropolitan areas and on youths aged 10 to 19.

The CDC team found that more than 22,000 people were killed using guns in 2009 and 2010. That compares to 25,406 firearm murders in 2006 and 2007. “The good news is that we saw that firearm homicides had declined over the two-year period we examined,” said James Mercy of the CDC’s division of violence prevention. That reflects a 20-year trend for murders, he told NBC News.

But killings are still high among youths. The second leading cause of deaths among teenagers was homicide, and 83 percent of these killings involved a gun.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/gun-s...-cities-cdc-finds-6C10820036?ocid=msnhp&pos=1

No figures for gang "suicides".

 

[Busybody]

Obama Blamed

 

[koalabear]

Obama Blamed

Good thing the CDC has cured all diseases and has time for guns.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

all the cool kids are killing themselves. Give it try.

 

[koalabear]

all the cool kids are killing themselves. Give it try.

here ya go, disappear.

 

[unregistered]

 

[koalabear]

Maybe it's Dems who have the disease,

or the cause.......