i dont live in america so i dont know how it feels, but it amazes me how people defend their rights to guns. just throwing it out there but if you never had guns and other people (criminals) didnt have guns then you wouldn't need one to protect yourself. I mean you wouldn't miss it if you never had it.
I must say that the break down of the NYT stats is kind of artificial, seeing as its by race and all. If a guy is half black and half white, is he the 'nearly' 6 black men murdered or 'nearly' 7 white men suicides? these vague facts just make the statistics a whole lot less credible.

i agree with the skeptics-it looks photoshopped to me. look at the position of the fence in the first and third picture-it seems weird. and just as #1 (Wah) said: how did he flip 180 degrees through the rail like that?
I'm no expert but the rocks on the cliff face in the third picture look fishy too. And I agree with #11 (ted) about the paramedics. Surely they would fasten themselves to the railing in case something happens?
Plus I doubt that even the gutsiest photographer would balance themselves precariously on the other side of the canyon to snap photos of a random car accident.