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I’m trained in public health and I’m an expert in vector identification.

The problem here, the obvious problem, is the shooters. It’s not the guns.

If it were the guns, there would be 84 shootings in every small town in America every week.

6 posted on 07/12/2014 4:28:39 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)

DING! DING! DING!

We have a winner!

(Well said, my friend.)

16 posted on 07/12/2014 4:48:13 AM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)

The problem here, the obvious problem, is the shooters. It’s not the guns.

Thanks for clarifying that it is people and not guns. From the usual news reports, I have constantly feared that my firearms might jump off the wall and start randomly shooting at any time. Whew!

29 posted on 07/12/2014 5:19:51 AM PDT by TexasRedeye (Eschew Obfuscation)

33 posted on 07/12/2014 5:27:54 AM PDT by killermosquito (Buffalo, Detroit (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)

If Mallory O’Brien, executive director of the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission, looked closer to home, looking at Milwaukee homicide statistics:

Milwaukee, with a population of just less than 600,000, is 40 percent African-American and 37 percent white. The 2011 Homicide Review Commission reports there were 86 homicides that year, with 93 percent of the suspects black males.
Overall, the homicide rate was 14.5 per 100,000 residents, and the nonfatal shooting rate was 79.5 per 100,000 residents. However, when broken down by race, “the homicide rate per black residents is 27.9 per 100,000 compared to 9.7 per 100,000 Latino residents and 1.7 per 100,000 White residents.”
The report concludes that “of the 2011 homicide victims, 77 percent (66) had a least one prior arrest and of the known 2011 homicide suspects 90 percent (74) had at least one prior arrest.”
Similar trends were found for nonfatal shooting victims and suspects.

Most "gun homicides" are people with criminal histories shooting other criminals. Most of the rest are criminals shooting regular citizens, or regular citizens shooting criminals in self defense.

40 posted on 07/12/2014 5:39:43 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)

If guns are responsible for shooting people, pens must be responsible for check fraud.

52 posted on 07/12/2014 6:19:46 AM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)

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