A Numbers Racket

The report points to places such as Custer County, Colorado, where the firearm suicide rate is 32 per 100,000 – four times the state’s average, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In February, the county’s board of commissioners passed a resolution that says the state’s red flag law is “in direct conflict with provisions of due process, as outlined in the 4th Amendment, and contradict the right to bear arms.”  [More]

Help me out here, because nothing quite brings out the ADD in me like math. Noting that for Custer County "As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,255," if next year two people kill themselves, will they do a headline about epidemic numbers doubling?

[Via Jess]