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Posted on 11/16/2017 4:18:00 PM PST by BackRoads775
You’ve heard the statistics before: Americans have more guns per head than any nation on earth – along with gun violence rates that are dramatically higher than other rich, developed countries.
But these big-picture facts can be misleading. Not every American is packing heat and gun violence is intensely concentrated in small neighbourhoods.
Here’s a look at the dramatic concentration of America’s guns – and America’s violence:
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Does this include bows?
I’m doing my part.....
You could fit almost two Europe’s into the US with room left over. How much gun crime is done there including the muzzies shooting up the place?
Translation.... strict new gun laws will only affect 3% of the population.
At least 10% of the males will no longer admit to gun ownership. Especially in blue states.
Interesting. I don’t recall the “in their homes for self-defense” clause in the 2nd Amendment.
Interesting. I don’t recall the “in their homes for self-defense” clause in the 2nd Amendment.
Bingo!
It talks about the rates of firearm violence being concentrated among very small groups of individuals in 125 large cities. It could have gone a step further and said that it is related to drug and gang activity, but that would have beet un-PC.
It could have calculated the numbers for firearm death per 100 on the basis of those small areas and the rest of the country. When that is done you find US (no gang/drug area) firearm violence rates comparable to the rest of the developed countries that gun control advocates always compare the US to.
There are two US gun control zones, one is like a gang dominated central American country in terms of Gun violence, and the rest of the country is low gun violence similar to many European countries.
Finally, firearm suicides. Yes there are lost (too many) firearm suicides, but a famous study comparing Vancouver BC to Seattle (published in the 1990’s in the New England Journal of Medicine) found that the rates of suicide in both locations were about the same. In fact it concluded that a person who wanted to commit suicide if they didn't have access to a handgun, would probably just choose another method to kill themselves.
Unfortunately, since then suicide by cop has become much more common.
I’m almost forty and I’m probably just below owning forty firearms. That’s only about 2 guns a year since I was 20. I live in New Hampshire so I can go target shooting anytime. I love my guns and I lock most of them up and I’d never give them up.
Every room in your house PLUS access to “off site” back up weapons and ammo.
What was the murder rate *before* they instituted the gun laws?
Answer: about the same or a little lower.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/12/european-gun-laws-did-not-reduced.html
Crime is a matter of demographics.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/01/european-murder-rates-compared-to.html
Yeh that’s why they call us the 3 Percenter’s. LOL!
No, it falls most heavily in the black neighborhoods. Lots of poor people here in the country and poor neighborhoods who are not shooting each other.
Yet another attempt to goad politicians into going after a troublesome minority whose views can be safely ignored at the polls.
Yeah, we’ve seen how that’s worked out.
Bottom line: gun owners routinely lie to anonymous telephonic pollsters, and that’s good.
I was thinking about that the other day. I’m pretty close to doing it right.
You and me just doing our part. If it ever gets to the point where we all NEED guns some of us will be the arsenals for democracy. What would also tick them off is the amount of ammunition we have.
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