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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    1. Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 9 Nov 2015

      3,400: Americans who died by Terrorism since 2001 3,400: Americans who died by household Firearms since five weeks ago.

      1,772 replies 63,511 retweets 59,982 likes
    2. Schrödinger’s  ⛔️ Collapsitarian #1‏ @jumpinjonnydee 30 Nov 2015
      Replying to @neiltyson

      @neiltyson What's your data source? You appear to be including suicides.

      6 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
    3. Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 30 Nov 2015
      Replying to @jumpinjonnydee

      @jumpinjonnydee Suicides are 2/3 of those household gun deaths.

      16 replies 73 retweets 185 likes
    4. Schrödinger’s  ⛔️ Collapsitarian #1‏ @jumpinjonnydee 30 Nov 2015
      Replying to @neiltyson

      @neiltyson Exactly. Compare suicide rate for Japan and you'll understand why you need to filter out suicides from the data

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 30 Nov 2015
      Replying to @jumpinjonnydee

      @jumpinjonnydee Japan a different culture. Using UK data, expect suicides to drop by 1/3 w/o guns:http://io9.com/5959303/why-have-people-stopped-committing-suicide-with-gas …

      4:09 PM - 30 Nov 2015
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        2. Schrödinger’s  ⛔️ Collapsitarian #1‏ @jumpinjonnydee 30 Nov 2015
          Replying to @neiltyson

          @neiltyson Japan gun ownership highly restricted, high suicides. UK Knife crime increasing, knife bans proposed. US issue is criminals

          3 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
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        4. Schrödinger’s  ⛔️ Collapsitarian #1‏ @jumpinjonnydee 2 Dec 2015
          Replying to @neofeudalismusa

          @StopPraying @neiltyson Why start with my Constitutional rights? Why not lock criminals up and treat the mentally ill/suicidal?

          6 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
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        6. Schrödinger’s  ⛔️ Collapsitarian #1‏ @jumpinjonnydee 2 Dec 2015
          Replying to @neofeudalismusa

          @StopPraying @neiltyson So, "The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" needs interpreting? For the simple maybe

          5 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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        8. Schrödinger’s  ⛔️ Collapsitarian #1‏ @jumpinjonnydee 2 Dec 2015
          Replying to @neofeudalismusa

          @StopPraying @neiltyson Ok, you're simple. so I'll go slow. Find another right in the bill of rights that reserves a right to the government

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        1. Schrödinger’s  ⛔️ Collapsitarian #1‏ @jumpinjonnydee 30 Nov 2015
          Replying to @neiltyson

          @neiltyson In the future when we have cold fusion in every home, will there be a suicide by Mr Fusion? #sarcasm

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        1. Prime Cuckington  🇨🇦‏ @MCGA2019 7 Dec 2015
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          @neiltyson @jumpinjonnydee If people are adamant on killing themselves, they're going to do find a way - gun or no gun.

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        1. Jim‏ @JimTheAtheist 3 Dec 2015
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          @neiltyson In the UK Gun related crimes doubled in the decade since they banned them. DIdn't work.

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        1. Eduardo Juan‏ @eduardojuan2 4 Dec 2015
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          @neiltyson @jumpinjonnydee 'cause it smells bad

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        1. syd‏ @SydneyCarton1 2 Dec 2015
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          @neiltyson @jumpinjonnydee what a racist tweet

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        1. Master of Post-its‏ @TPSCraig 1 Dec 2015
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          @neiltyson @jumpinjonnydee why are we asking how people want to die and not why they want to die?

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        1. Cryptomonkey64‏ @Cryptomonkey64 Jan 26
          Replying to @neiltyson @jumpinjonnydee

          So then let's sweep the dead by terrorism under the carpet and diminish the value of personal gun ownership because more people died by a candle burning flammable curtain's? One is a radical idiot killing innocent humans and the other is a careless person leaving fire......

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        1. Freemason Glenn Yurchenko‏ @StationarySpace 30 Nov 2015
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          @neiltyson japan does follow the right path, should done more, in abbrieven. cuiside is often when an guilty perhaps (enoughe ) is stay

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        1. Shae Germann‏ @ShaeGermann 5 Dec 2015
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          @neiltyson Objectively true: so long as people hate other people, people will continue to kill other people. The weapons used are immaterial

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