Gun Control & RKBA
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In 2013, guns were used to murder 11,208 people and injure 84,258 during criminal activity. That total is 95,466 people shot.
Ignoring that the same guns are often used over and over in crime, let's pretend that a different gun was used for all 95,466 of those crimes. Then compare that number with the over 300,000,000 guns in private hands. That's about 0.03% of the guns in the US or 1 out of 3,100 is used in a crime.
Make no mistake; the triggers don't pull themselves even though I hear a lot...
...that guns kill people. Are the other 3,099 guns broken?
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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)It's true, I heard it on the internet.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)...my boyfriend is a French model... Bone jur
ileus
(15,396 posts)Without firearms there would be no violent crime.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)...we could stamp out gunz, then love and peace would spread like cream cheese on my bagel.
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OakCliffDem
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Don't believe those lies told about Sam Colt
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discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)that a 100 lb. woman is equal to a 200 lb. man?
OakCliffDem
(1,274 posts)"God created men, but Sam Colt made them equal"
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"God created men, Colonel Colt made them equal"
"Some men are big, some men are small, but Sam Colt made them all equal"
"God made some men big and others small, but Samuel Colt made them equal"
"God created all men, but Sam Colt made them equal"
"Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them equal"
"God created men and women, but Sam Colt made them equal"
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)I get it now.
Thanks for the clarification, and I do remember those sayings.
ileus
(15,396 posts)pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)Then I'd have a really big tool.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)TeddyR
(2,493 posts)According to the Washington Post, "In D.C.s homicide spike, a new trend: Some involve past violent offenders."
More than 10 percent of the Districts spiking number of homicides this year have involved previously known violent offenders who have recently been released from prison, D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said Thursday.
Multiple of our offenders involved in homicide have previous homicide charges and are recently back in the community, Lanier said at a news conference.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/in-dcs-homicide-spike-a-new-trend-many-suspects-are-past-offenders/2015/08/13/6fbe417a-41d9-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html?hpid=z2
Of course, I find it hard to believe that this is a "new trend." And the chief of police has to drop a statement about "high capacity magazines" - whatever those actually are - "flooding" the streets.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)...keep them locked up.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)But some push this TalkingPoint© with dull consistency.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)Everybody knows that the evil intrinsic to the gun passes into the body of the gun owner through some form of hideous osmosis, and drives him to desire murder and rampage. Resistance is futile. The gun CANNOT be brought under control.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Guns will infect your mind and curve your spine.
Guns ARE the evil Americans your momma warned you about.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)Guns are the reason I have a curved spine, and the bulged discs + sciatica that comes with it, dammit.
Wish I had received momma's warning earlier.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)That smell of the powder, the MC-7 and FP-10...
Possibly those don't rhyme well.
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