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Yep - batting 33%. Good job!Raees wrote:
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Raees wrote: We should be really proud -- we're #1 in ...
1. The number of guns per capita. 90 guns for every 100 people. Yemen is a distant second at 61.
Number of firearms in America - between 223,000,000 and 290,000,000 (Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institue of International Studies, 2008)
With a population of 311 million and 290 million guns, that's about 90 guns for every 100 people.
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Or until someone stops him when he has to reload...like the Gabby Giffords shooting. If that shooter had a smaller magazine he would have been stopped sooner and lives may have been saved.Martin Ent Inc wrote: If a crazy wants to kill people he can do it with a single shot a six shooter or any combination, because the unarmed victims will cowar and lay there till the perp is stopped or thay are killed.
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Or until someone stops him when he has to reload...like the Gabby Giffords shooting. If that shooter had a smaller magazine he would have been stopped sooner and lives may have been saved.Martin Ent Inc wrote: If a crazy wants to kill people he can do it with a single shot a six shooter or any combination, because the unarmed victims will cowar and lay there till the perp is stopped or thay are killed.
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Raees wrote: It's a trick. When people tell you that you shouldn't politicize a tragedy like the shooting in Aurora, Colorado they are unwittingly helping to spread NRA propaganda. After a tragedy like that, it is the most logical thing in the world to ask what went wrong and how we can fix it. When you ask that question, the obvious answer is our gun laws. It's awfully hard to stab 70 people and kill 12 of them in a short period of time like that. It's very easy to murder those same people if you have an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and two glocks.
This is the obvious conclusion that the NRA desperately wants you to avoid. So, they do a brilliant trick where they tell you that you are not allowed to talk about the problem in the immediate aftermath of the violence and death their guns caused -- that would be politicizing the tragedy.
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Becky wrote: yep...it's a trick....I am a subversive for the NRA....You found me out.
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Raees wrote: No one—really no one—anywhere on the political spectrum has the courage to speak out about the madness of unleashed guns and what they do to American life. That includes the President, whose consoling message managed to avoid the issue of why these killings take place.
Of course, we don’t know, and perhaps never will, what exactly “made him” do what he did; but we know how he did it. Those who fight for the right of every madman and every criminal to have as many people-killing weapons as they want share moral responsibility for what happened last night—as they will when it happens again. And it will happen again.
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