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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
February 22, 2014 at 12:27 am
Quote:The number of privately owned guns in the U.S. is at an all-time high, upwards of 300 million, and now rises by about 10 million per year.1 Meanwhile, the firearm accident death rate has fallen to an all-time low, 0.2 per 100,000 population, down 94% since the all-time high in 1904.2 Since 1930, the annual number of firearm accident deaths has decreased 81%, while the U.S. population has more than doubled and the number of firearms has quintupled. Among children, such deaths have decreased 89% since 1975. Today, the odds are more than a million to one, against a child in the U.S. dying in a firearm accident.
Firearms are involved in 0.5% of accidental deaths nationally, compared to motor vehicles (29%), poisoning (27%), falls (21%), suffocation (5%), drowning (3%), fires (2%), medical mistakes (1.7%), environmental factors (1.3%), and pedal cycles (0.6%). Among children: motor vehicles (34%), suffocation (27%), drowning (17%), fires (7%), environmental factors (2.3%), poisoning (2.2%), falls (1.5%), firearm (1.5), pedal cycles (1.4%), and medical mistakes (1.3%).
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
February 22, 2014 at 1:06 am
That's about accidents.
The preceding post referred to violent crime.
But please, continue massaging the muzzle.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
February 22, 2014 at 1:11 am
Ya, I think he just disproved your totalitarian leftist agenda.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
February 22, 2014 at 1:56 am
So dead kids are proof of our "freedom?"
Fuck that.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
February 22, 2014 at 2:12 am
Apparently the freedom to have "pedal cycles" results in almost as many dead kids in the US as guns. Why don't we have a thread going about them?
Oh, it's not sensational enough for it to be constantly reported by mass media. That's the difference.
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Re: RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
February 22, 2014 at 11:53 am
(February 22, 2014 at 1:56 am)Minimalist Wrote: So dead kids are proof of our "freedom?"
Fuck that.
You aren't worried about kids. You are worried about your leftist agenda.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
February 22, 2014 at 12:00 pm
(February 22, 2014 at 1:06 am)Moros Synackaon Wrote: That's about accidents.
The preceding post referred to violent crime.
But please, continue massaging the muzzle.
Min has made this thread about both. Please try to keep up.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
February 22, 2014 at 12:14 pm
Yeah, a kid falling off a bike is exactly the same as a 3 year old taking daddy's gun and killing his little brother.
The gun nut mentality would be amusing.... if it weren't so deadly.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
February 22, 2014 at 12:37 pm
(February 22, 2014 at 12:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yeah, a kid falling off a bike is exactly the same as a 3 year old taking daddy's gun and killing his little brother.
The gun nut mentality would be amusing.... if it weren't so deadly.
I'm not a gun nut. I don't even have a gun in my house. But if your concern is preventing the deaths of kids why only focus on this one thing. Making it illegal to have a home swimming pool would save more kids from dying. But the possibility of doing that isn't even considered. Everyone just focuses on guns and ignore everything else.
Why?
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
February 22, 2014 at 1:20 pm
(February 22, 2014 at 12:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yeah, a kid falling off a bike is exactly the same as a 3 year old taking daddy's gun and killing his little brother.
The gun nut mentality would be amusing.... if it weren't so deadly. Ya, what difference does it make if he kills himself with a gun or a bike?
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