Posted on 07/17/2013 10:07:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In 1994, the United States was home to about 200 million privately owned guns. Today, that number has ballooned to between 270 million and 300 million. That's almost half of all privately owned guns worldwide, according to a new essay from the Brookings Institution.
The essay, titled The Promise by Matt Bennett, looks back at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings and the way ahead for gun control. The piece breaks down some other big numbers surrounding the battle for more gun regulation: More than 10 firearm deaths per 100,000 Americans every year; 600 annual accidental shootings; 11,400 murders; about 31,000 total gun deaths. The most common age of people who commit gun crimes is 19, then 20, then 18. That's despite regulations that bar licensed dealers from selling handguns to anyone under the age of 21. Almost 100 million adults live in a home with a gun.
Bennett ties these numbers back to last year's tragedy in Newtown, Conn.:
Still in the arena as well are the families of Sandy Hook. Despite the glare of a spotlight that has forced them to repeatedly relive their darkest hour and subjected them to a stunning level of personal vitriol, they continue to come to Washington, meet with senators and talk to the press. They accepted early on that this was a long road—that a 20-year gridlock on gun policy was not likely to change in an instant.
The motto of Sandy Hook Promise is: "Our hearts our broken; Our spirit is not." And the extraordinary generosity of spirit that these brave people bring to this nasty, brutish political debate could, in the end, make all the difference.
You can read the full piece here.
On a related point, I’ve oft noted that during the NOLA confiscations, the only guns confiscated were the ones whose owners meekly handed ‘em over or were too weak to resist. Some were confronted with confiscation, and left alone - because it was clear any attempt to disarm would result in great harm to both sides.
And I agree it would be better if we Americans owned all of the privately owned guns.
These Spiritual Reawakenings have been exceptionally powerful, transformative events in American history. The first presaged the American Revolution; the second, the Emancipation and the Civil War....
We live in extraordinary times. I pray those who love the Lord will rise to the challenges by standing firm in God's truth as revealed to us in four revelations, in loving faith and trust in Him....
The Son is Truth incarnate in the World. He is of one Substance with the Living God, His Father; and God's Name is: I AM.
That's wonderful news! I'm smiling now.
Take out the Male population ages 18-35 in one specific Ethnic Group and the USA would probably tie Switzerland.
USA,USA,USA!
The Kenyan Impostor wants to get rid of all US nukes, so we need SOME kind of deterrent! ;)
50%+1 they dont know how many I own.
Without doing a thorough inventory, even I don't know how many I own... '-)
We must assume that stoning teenage girls to death — or any other form of “honor killing” — is not counted as murder in Pakistan...
As you are well aware from your own experience, something like this is very rare in Massachusetts nowadays.
Yet it seems to me that when God has been "removed," insanity and social disorder are the inevitable results.
Thank you so much, dear, for writing!
IMHO, the term is, "doubly blessed"... :-)
INDEED!
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