RE: Gunman Attacks Conservative Christian Group
August 18, 2012 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2012 at 12:41 pm by downbeatplumb.)
Quote:According to this web site, there were 17,000 homicides in the US in 2007:
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/tab…
According to this web site, about 68% of homicides are committed with firearms:
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp
That means there are about 11,600 homicides by firearms per year in the US, or about 32 per day.
This figure doesn't include non-fatal shootings, or suicides by firearms. According to the following, there are about 75,000 non-fatal shootings per year (both deliberate and accidental) and about 17,000 suicides with firearms per year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violenc…
(Interestingly, the majority of deaths by firearms are self-inflicted.)
Altogether, that's an average of 284 people killed or injured by firearms every day.
So Atheist what makes this case more newsworthy than the other 283 shootings that day?
Is it because it seems to support your own bias?
By the way, one of the sites I googled this shooting on described the shooter as a gay terrorist.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
