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.
I’ve been thinking about that FReme for the past couple of days.
We need to stop being fearful of the government and come out and say, LOUDLY - yes, we have guns and you’re NOT getting them.
“Since the CDC began publishing data in 1981, gun suicides have outnumbered gun homicides. But as gun homicides have declined sharply in recent years, suicides have become a greater share of all firearm deaths: the 61% share in 2010 was the highest on record. That year there were 19,392 suicides by firearm compared to 11,078 homicides by gun (35% of all firearm deaths). The rest were accidents, police shootings and unknown causes.”
PEW RESEARCH CENTER
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/05/24/suicides-account-for-most-gun-deaths/
“But in this case, that isn’t what is inflating it: it’s the inclusion of “suicide” in the count, although they don’t explicitly say so.”
That’s teh bogusness. The real murder rate is 4.8 not 10.
1. We like them.
2. We need them.
3. We expect to use them. Soon.
Yeah, it hasn't been been above 10 since 1980.
USA Murder Rate at Historic Record Low
Nevin (2000) showed that the homicide rate trend from 1900 to 1998 was largely explained by trends in per capita use of lead in paint and in gasoline from 1879 to 1977. Lead exposure trends have presaged USA homicide trends with a 21-year time lag, reflecting the behavioral impact of early-childhood neurodevelopmental damage when those children reach peak ages of homicide offending in their late-teens and early-20s.
This is correlation, not cause. But, it's an interesting correlation.
“when you can find ammo for them”
Reload.
There is a huge resurgence in loading “cowboy” rifles. (mostly levers action)
You can buy reloading dies for almost everything ever made and it is pretty easy to cast lead bullets for them. Makes some cheap shooting. You can load 30-30 with cast bullets for from $.10- .12 per round if you have the brass and a reloading press.
There are a lot of fine old Mausers and vintage bolt action rifles. They have more knock down and longer effective range than the AK’s & AR’s.
Brass for vintage rifles is often a problem, but it is out there. I even found some new brass for my Model 71 .348 Winchester recently.
Notice how any other death at the hands of another human is a homicide, but police shootings are counted outside that number.
And yet, despite all that the gun grabbers have said over the years, the Wild West is not occurring in America. Blood is not running in the streets (except maybe Chicago)
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Better if we owned all of them, given the animosity and contempt in which "the world" seems to hold America these days — thanks in no small part to the absolute, systematic refusal of our Punk President to defend this country, its institutions and values, its national interests, and our Constitutional rule of law.
I do not believe this is an accident. Rather, I gather the Punk-in-Chief's sympathies actually lie with "the world," and not with the country of which he is the Chief Executive, Chief LEO, and Commander-in-Chief of our military forces. Not to mention that, evidently, he does not in any way feel that any action of his is at all constrained by the Constitution — which he swore an Oath to uphold and defend. (Three times, without batting an eye!)
Judging by his record in office so far, it's more likely his real sympathies lie with the Muslim Brotherhood than with the American people.
And still no one will impeach him!!!!
Meanwhile, the People just snore away through it all.... In their dreams, they see no imminent danger to themselves and their way of life....
Thanks for posting this, SeekAndFind!
The reason they will not impeach and remove the criminal bastard is because they are as corrupt as he, in violation of their oaths to OUR Constitution. They are a sickening bunch of magic bullet, Scottish law, Specters (may he not rest in any peace for his life of treachery to America).
I bet we could get that number up if we really tried.
Nice to read good news for a change.
What Yamamoto feared most was America’s industrial capacity.
He also feared that Japanese arrogance & sense of superiority over the hated `gaijin’ would prove to be Japan’s undoing.
Well, dear brother in Christ, it's time for a good housecleaning. Personally, I can't believe that the majority of Americans are "corrupt." (Though maybe I'm wrong about that.)
This nation was founded in the idea that God Himself (and nobody else, certainly not the State — which can rescind any "right" it grants at its pleasure) endows human beings with unalienable rights by virtue of God having created each and every one of them in His Image. Inalienable rights are such that cannot, in principle, be violated or infringed by any subsequent political order, or State, that pretends to be "legitimate."
On the other hand, I feel that Plato was absolutely correct when he said that no corrupt People (no society) can hope to have a just State to remediate the wrongs the members of that political State perpetrate on each other. That is, if the People themselves are thoroughly corrupt, then so will be their "form of government," ineluctibly.
So what we need is uncorrupt people — who have been, down through history, the "saving remnant," the "salt of the earth," as the Bible puts it, of just, flourishing, and peaceable societies.
A great pain and sadness of the culture that I now live in is this: A tiny minority of the populace has brought itself into the position of successfully being able to determine and dictate to the majority — especially of what it thinks and believes — and enforce, compel, such determinations by means of unjust statutory law, with the help of like-minded courts of "justice." The Bill of Rights is no protection for ordinary people here, against the depredations of a State determined to usurp the God-granted rights of the people it is supposed to represent and defend. For the BoR is concerned with defending minorities from majority-imposed oppression.... Our practical situation today, under this Thug Regime, is quite the opposite.
Another great pain and sadness to me is that, seemingly, people don't really care all that much anymore about little things — like truth, and the good character of so-called "public servants." Nobody nowadays in public office is penalized for blatant lying to the public. If Obama were to be caught in the act of outright murder of a fellow human being, I gather most People would be non-plussed by this.
So why should they notice that he is murdering our country, our Nation?
Too much trouble in that!
Which is WHY we need the "saving remnant," the "salt of the earth," to stand up and be counted, right now.
I pray constantly that the Holy Spirit will continue to abide with those who live in America who love their Lord Jesus Christ, Logos Alpha–Omega, Savior, and Final Judge. I pray for nothing less than a third Great Spiritual Reawakening in America which (it seems to me) only the "saving remnant" can advance at this time....
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.
LOL
Based on the discussions at FR that mentioned a handful of these tragic boat accidents, I'd surmise FReepers share a common interest in the hunt or fishing for the Loch Ness Monster. Either that or they appreciate really expensive boat anchors.
It is impossible that people will be ruled by a government more moral than they for any length of time. Governments, whether democracies or dictatorships, rise from out of the same soil and culture as the people they rule. Even the worst of dictators and the most corrupt of democrats rely ultimately on the support of the people who outnumber them millions to one, which means ultimately the people themselves are thoroughly complicit.
Security services, bureaucracies, school systems, all are made up of ordinary people who are either moral and brave and wise or they are not.
I pray for nothing less than a third Great Spiritual Reawakening in America
You and me both.
There are still isolated "salt of the earth" enclaves in the good ol' US of A!
A timely event:
Last night, our small, unincorporated rural community of Huffines, Texas [You may find it listed as "Huffins", also] met to vote on a completely new set of bylaws for our community organization. Among other things, the organization administers our local community center (former Huffines Schoolhouse) and holds frequent social events such as pot luck dinners, fish fries to raise funds for the volunteer fire department, etc... We also provide gathering space and, frequently, food, for families who are holding funerals at the cemetery across the road, as well as hosting and supporting the local quilting club.
With no input from me, (although I heartily approve) the first article of the bylaws is:
Article 1. "Whereas the Community of Huffines is a grateful beneficiary of the mercy and grace of Almighty God, and whereas the Club wishes to follow the example of our Nation's founding fathers and act 'with a firm reliance on Divine providence", all club activities shall begin and end with prayer."
With that reverent beginning, the rest of the by-laws followed suit, and the meeting was both congenial and joyous, with not a few "AMEN!"s mixed in with the "YEA"s for the final, unanimous vote of acceptance.
And, praise be, ol' TXnMA was blessed by being called upon to offer up the closing prayer...
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Maybe it's apparent why we still call our neck o' the Piney Woods, "God's Country" -- and why this physical chemist chose to retire here among farmers, paper mill and tire factory workers, timber folks and other assorted working and retired "overhaul" wearers -- when I "escaped from my 20 year 'exile' in Massachusetts"... '-)
Oh, BTW, five firearms per individual (man, woman, child) in our community would be a very conservative accounting... '-)
What, don’t you have a fish hunting license?
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