Matty, Matty, Matty. Surely you don't believe actual factual data do you? :>} As we all know, this kind of date is typical of pro gun groups trying to make us believe that "gun violence" isn't as bad as some would have us believe. Hmmmm. The little chart showing the rise in firearms in circulation and decline in homicides per 100k people is eggs-act-lee what I keep trying to point out to these assclowns but, they will have NONE of it. Guns bad, perps misunderstood. The graph doesn't make it any simpler.
1 posted on
10/05/2015 6:48:34 AM PDT by
rktman
To: rktman
I still would not source Vox for anything. This is not what you're doing rktman, so don't misunderstand. But I'm so sick of seeing Huffpo and Vox and Mother Jone's sourced on FR. It's making me physically ill.
2 posted on
10/05/2015 6:52:42 AM PDT by
Artemis Webb
(I will not worship at the alter of Diversity.)
To: rktman
3 posted on
10/05/2015 6:55:53 AM PDT by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: rktman
Gun violence? What about gang violence in certain settings?
To: rktman
The left doesn’t care about violence in the inner city because it keeps Blacks down and ruins their lives. This way they remain a permanent victim subgroup.
They want to take guns from non-violent White citizens.
6 posted on
10/05/2015 7:03:17 AM PDT by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
To: rktman
Since 13,000 die from HIV every year, why not outlaw sodomy? It could save as many lives as outlawing guns. (And such a law probably be as effective as a law outlawing guns, too.)
7 posted on
10/05/2015 7:04:54 AM PDT by
Sooth2222
("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
To: rktman
It's not the numbers, it's the sensationalism.
Same thing happens with automobiles. On average 90 people die per day in automobile accidents, but it is sensationalized news when 6 teens die in an accident on prom night.
8 posted on
10/05/2015 7:16:55 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag necessary?)
To: rktman
In church yesterday, the pastor encouraged us to contribiute to the Peace & Global Witness Special Offering. A brochure was included in our service’s bulletin.
In the brochure, there was a list of “Conflicts Around The Corner”. The VERY FIRST item listed was Gun Violence...with a sub-paragraph stating “Over 30,000 Americans were killed by firearms in 2013.(1)” The footnotes on the last page for “sources” indicated footnote (1) came from a 2013 US CDC study.
It was all I could do to sit thru the rest of the service WITHOUT pulling out my phone and looking that up. After church, I researched it and found the number to be accurate. However...
The one thing the brochure forgot to mention...21,000 of those gun deaths were SUICIDE!
Needless to say, I will not be sending them a check.
9 posted on
10/05/2015 7:18:41 AM PDT by
moovova
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson