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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
March 1, 2016 at 4:49 pm
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Crackheads shooting people in the face are not a statistically meaningful portion of our gun deaths...nor are hitmen, nor are they drunken people shooting their friends (and is that even supposed to be crazy...honestly?...that's drunk). Our gun deaths are 4 parts angry people doing angry things/protecting their livelihoods...and 6 parts depressesed people shooting themselves. What would you accept as an authority? CDC, ATF, FBI, Morbidity and Mortality (don't even ask, I'm hooked, lol)....the ratio of murder charges in which a plea of insanity is accepted.....what? I just don't want to have to bicker after I present you with stats.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
March 1, 2016 at 5:10 pm
Quote:Crackheads shooting people in the face are not a statistically meaningful portion of our gun deaths...nor are hitmen, nor are they drunken people shooting their friends (and is that even supposed to be crazy...honestly?...that's drunk).
Yeah, it is kind of an "all of the above" type of thing.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
March 1, 2016 at 5:16 pm
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It's really not, not even taken altogether, but that's the perception..not without reason, granted....I guess? Crackheads can't afford guns, hitmen are a hefty dollop of fiction, and drunks...when they shoot people, generally shoot themselves (not a problem in my book...a solution).
Your thread, for example, is a testament to stray bullets and bad decisions...and as full as it is, as much as you know I enjoy it.... it's not actually representative of our gun problem in the slightest. Drug war and suicides, there it is.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
March 1, 2016 at 5:27 pm
Don't forget the cops. They spray lots of bullets around, too.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
March 1, 2016 at 6:03 pm
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Hey, remember last year, when we were treated to the stat that cops had killed more people than all mass shootings combined in 2014...and then, not to be outdone, they beat their own record in 2015?
Bravo fellas, never be satisfied. You could always plug -at least- one more black male in your pursuit of "justice". Keep reaching.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
March 1, 2016 at 6:08 pm
"But mommmm .. all the other kids have uzis why can't I said one" said the toddler suffering from a 1st world problem.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
March 1, 2016 at 6:35 pm
CDC would work fine, so long as they track the mental health of the assailants, which is after all the crux of the point.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
March 1, 2016 at 6:45 pm
Quote:Yet surprisingly little population-level evidence supports the notion that individuals diagnosed with mental illness are more likely than anyone else to commit gun crimes. According to Appelbaum,25 less than 3% to 5% of US crimes involve people with mental illness, and the percentages of crimes that involve guns are lower than the national average for persons not diagnosed with mental illness. Databases that track gun homicides, such as the National Center for Health Statistics, similarly show that fewer than 5% of the 120 000 gun-related killings in the United States between 2001 and 2010 were perpetrated by people diagnosed with mental illness.
Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
March 1, 2016 at 6:54 pm
I stand corrected, thanks.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
March 2, 2016 at 12:44 pm
Trevor Noah sounded off on the latest mass gun nut stupidity from Iowa.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/trevor-n...ng-killed/
Quote:Trevor Noah: GOP would rather take guns from kids’ cold dead hands than keep them from being killed
Make sure to watch the video.
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