--typical WaPo hit piece--several great comments after the article--
To: rellimpank
511 police officers killed by
Criminals Using firearms since 2000.
There. That's better.
2 posted on
11/23/2010 6:04:12 AM PST by
WayneS
(Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
To: rellimpank
We need more gun laws - like they do in MEXICO prohibiting the ownership of pretty much most firearms - to be really really safe....
3 posted on
11/23/2010 6:06:53 AM PST by
macquire
To: rellimpank
Just don’t give a firearm to an SUV. That’s a murdering machine, right there.
4 posted on
11/23/2010 6:07:21 AM PST by
Dan Nunn
(Support the NRA!)
To: rellimpank
6 posted on
11/23/2010 6:11:12 AM PST by
Sooth2222
("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
To: rellimpank
Gotta love the comments. Even the 2nd Amendment supporters are clueless there.
Right off the bat the information in tis article is suspect. AK-47's require a federal tax stamp to own and many states deny that right at the state level. Now if they are talking AK based guns then it would be accurate. But places like the Denver post love to make things firearm related sound worse then they are in their effort to destroy the 2nd amendment.Alan Geoffrion | 5:29 AM on Tuesday Nov 2
7 posted on
11/23/2010 6:11:23 AM PST by
Dan Nunn
(Support the NRA!)
To: rellimpank
Yup.
I like how they break down all the other methods of obtaining a gun so that those seperate totals fall below the legal method.
Also, depciting the AK-47 in the chart was a nice touch. :)
What? No Glock depicted under the semi-auto handgun category? :)
8 posted on
11/23/2010 6:11:33 AM PST by
Pessimist
To: rellimpank
Yeah and how many people have died on the U.S. Mexican border Washington Post? I don’t hear you communist rats wanting to ban illegals crossing the border.
9 posted on
11/23/2010 6:11:54 AM PST by
Sprite518
To: rellimpank
How many were killed in auto traffic accidents?
How many were killed by spouses and family members?
How many were killed at their own hand?
How many were killed by friendly fire?
WaPo statistics are worthless.
It means nothing, WaPo means nothing.
I’ll keep my gun, so sayeth the Constitution.
12 posted on
11/23/2010 6:16:13 AM PST by
Doulos1
(Bitter Clinger Forever!)
To: rellimpank
"Garen Wintemute ... director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis: "... we are also finding cases in which people who have criminal misdemeanor records
but remain eligible to buy guns do buy those guns and then kill cops with them,"
So you know what his agenda is - ANY conviction and you lose your right to bear arms. Feckin' commie b@stards.
13 posted on
11/23/2010 6:17:50 AM PST by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: rellimpank
Now, if the police would do their job and recover stolen firearms within 48 hours, they wouldn’t be seeing this problem, would they??? Har-De-Har-Har-Har!!!
15 posted on
11/23/2010 6:20:06 AM PST by
Waco
(From Seward to Sarah)
To: rellimpank
Of the 511 murders, how many of the murderers paid with their lives (via the gunfight, death penalty)?
16 posted on
11/23/2010 6:22:47 AM PST by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
This same tired agitprop is all over newspapers this morning. SSDD.
17 posted on
11/23/2010 6:23:16 AM PST by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: rellimpank
The only murder with a legal machine gun was a cop murdering his wife. How many persons have been murdered by cops? How many persons have been killed by gun control? Why is the new world order afraid of human rights to self defense?
18 posted on
11/23/2010 6:32:10 AM PST by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: rellimpank
Does the report include the deaths of officers killed by their own weapons? of other officers’ weapons?
It’s disingenious to lump all fatal incidents involving firearms into a catagory headlined by one incident of a stolen gun used to kill police.
25 posted on
11/23/2010 7:18:59 AM PST by
azhenfud
(The government is not best which secures life and property-there is a more valuable thing-manhood.)
To: rellimpank
Do they break down the murders of these perps by race?
Just askin’
31 posted on
11/23/2010 9:39:31 AM PST by
Red in Blue PA
(Planning on using 911? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
To: rellimpank
52 weeks in a year. 10 years. 520 weeks. 511 police officers killed by firearms over that 10 years.
Less than one a week over all of America?
Sounds like a rather rare event then.
Much better than a nation where the police are armed, civilians are disarmed, and criminals are armed; yet that is the liberal fantasy of how things should be.
33 posted on
11/23/2010 9:48:49 AM PST by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
To: rellimpank
How many unarmed civilians killed by criminals since 2000?
36 posted on
11/23/2010 10:31:02 AM PST by
Gene Eric
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To: neverdem
37 posted on
11/23/2010 10:31:48 AM PST by
Gene Eric
(Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
To: rellimpank
Wait...I’m sure they also noted the 50+ million unarmed civilians killed by their armed gummint people back in the 20th century...they didn’t? Whatta surprise.../sarcasm
39 posted on
11/23/2010 11:28:17 AM PST by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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