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Let slip the dogs of war.
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Originally Posted by SallyRand
And just where are those statistics?
Links, please!
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It's really very simple to understand and even you should get it. When there are more guns present, more people are hurt and killed with guns. Period, full stop. The United States finds its self in great company, surrounded by impoverished and war torn nations, in the rankings for gundeaths per capita. The rest of the industrialized World has far, far, far fewer gun deaths.
It's even evident within your own nation. The states with the most guns and most lax gun controls lead the nation in gun deaths.
See, the problem with having guns generally available is that any idiot can make a split second decision long before their pathetic brains can even process the situation. Shit just look at posters right here on GFY. Read some of Dirty Danza's posts. That guy is basically functionally retarded. I'm not saying that to be mean, it's just true. He's also running around loaded up with firearms, listening to police scanners hoping to be a hero. That doesn't sound like a dangerous situation to you?
Also, before you get all crazy and say anything else stupid, I should probably point out to you that DESPITE the facts of the matter, and they are facts there's no real disputing them, I'm not actually AGAINST gun ownership. In fact, in Costa Rica I had a concealed carry permit, took tactical training and from time to time depending on the situation I carried. Fortunately I'm smart enough to know even before I pull a trigger what kind of life changing decission I'd be making. Further I'm smart enough not to go say for instance drinking while carrying.
Now mind you, Costa Rica and the United States have similar numbers for handgun deaths per capita so as an American I'm sure you can well understand that when you're in a shit hole populated mostly by morons and many of them with guns then yeah I guess you have to get one too. Fortunately for the rest of us in the civilized world, we can still go hunting, or target shooting or any number of gun related "sports", but we don't have to worry about mental giants such as yourself shooting anyone. Well, at least we don't have to worry anywhere near as much.
Here's a big list of facts for you about guns and their usage in the United States. Sources are included.
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http://www.vpc.org/fact_sht/hgbanfs.htm
DID YOU KNOW? In one year on average, almost 100,000 people in America are shot or killed with a gun.
•In one year, 31,224 people died from gun violence and 66,769 people survived gun injuries (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)). That includes:
◦12,632 people murdered and 44,466 people shot in an attack.
◦17,352 people who killed themselves and 3,031 people who survived a suicide attempt with a gun.
◦613 people who were killed unintentionally and 18,610 who were shot unintentionally but survived.
◦You can see tables on gun deaths here: 1) annual gun deaths and gun death rates by age and intent and by race/ethnicity, 2) ranked state gun death rates, and 3) trends in gun deaths and gun death rates by intent.
◦Often, we recall the horrific mass shootings where an unstable or perturbed individual opens fire and kills or injures people using powerful semiautomatic weapons. We have kept track of these all-too-common incidents in an interactive map and chronological lists: mass shootings, school shootings, and assault weapon shootings.
•Over a million people have been killed with guns in the United States since 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated (Childrens’ Defense Fund, p. 20).
•U.S. homicide rates are 6.9 times higher than rates in 22 other populous high-income countries combined, despite similar non-lethal crime and violence rates. The firearm homicide rate in the U.S. is 19.5 times higher (Richardson, p.1).
•Among 23 populous, high-income countries, 80% of all firearm deaths occurred in the United States (Richardson, p. 1).
•Gun violence impacts society in countless ways: medical costs, costs of the criminal justice system, security precautions such as metal detectors, and reductions in quality of life because of fear of gun violence. These impacts are estimated to cost U.S. citizens $100 billion annually (Cook, 2000).
DID YOU KNOW? Where there are more guns, there are more gun deaths.
•An estimated 41% of gun-related homicides and 94% of gun-related suicides would not occur under the same circumstances had no guns been present (Wiebe, p. 780).
•Higher household gun ownership correlates with higher rates of homicides, suicides, and unintentional shootings (Harvard Injury Control Center).
•Keeping a firearm in the home increases the risk of suicide by a factor of 3 to 5 and increases the risk of suicide with a firearm by a factor of 17 (Kellermann, 1992, p. 467; Wiebe, p. 771).
•Keeping a firearm in the home increases the risk of homicide by a factor of 3 (Kellermann, 1993, p. 1084).
DID YOU KNOW? On the whole, guns are more likely to raise the risk of injury than to confer protection.
•A gun is 22 times more likely to be used in a completed or attempted suicide, criminal assault or homicide, or unintentional shooting death or injury than to be used in a self-defense shooting. (Kellermann, 1998, p. 263).
•Guns are used to intimidate and threaten 4 to 6 times more often than they are used to thwart crime (Hemenway, p. 269).
•Every year there are only about 200 legally justified self-defense homicides by private citizens (FBI, Expanded Homicide Data, Table 15) compared with over 30,000 gun deaths (NCIPC).
•A 2009 study found that people in possession of a gun are 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault (Branas).
DID YOU KNOW? Assaults and suicide attempts with firearms are much more likely to be fatal than those perpetrated with less lethal weapons or means. Removing guns saves lives.
•There are five times as many deaths from gun assaults as from knife assaults, where the rates of assault with knives and with guns are similar (Zimring, p. 199).
•More than 90 percent of suicide attempts with a gun are fatal (Miller, 2004, p. 626). In comparison, only 3 percent of attempts with drugs or cutting are fatal (Miller, 2004, p. 626).
DID YOU KNOW? Guns can be sold in the United States without a background check to screen out criminals or the mentally ill.
•It is estimated that over forty percent of gun acquisitions occur in the secondary market. That means that they happen without a Brady background check at a federally licensed dealer (Cook, p. 26).
•Sales from federal firearm licensees (FFLs) require a background check. Sales between individuals, under federal law, do not require a background check. This means that felons can “lie and buy” at gun shows and other places where guns are readily available.
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