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Don't panic, nobody's going to take your toys away if you be good boys and girls.
i certainly do not plan to panic, even though i'm better when i'm being bad.
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Don't panic, nobody's going to take your toys away if you be good boys and girls.
Can I ask, why? Why are you interested in shootings, and what is the point of the thread?
To illustrate how much gun violence there is in this country.
I am for gun control.
Can I ask, why? Why are you interested in shootings, and what is the point of the thread?
Nothing to debate here.
100 million plus Americans exercise their right to own a firearm for self defense.
So, when you get to post number 1 million, you'll have reached the 1% mark.
Good luck.
Only 999,985 posts to go to get to 1% of law abiding gun owners exercising their constitutional right.
The latest polls show that most americans are in favor of some gun control.
Don't panic, nobody's going to take your toys away if you be good boys and girls.
Well the people buying guns certainly aren't dropping back.
That's a disgusting analogy.
Why just "gun" violence and not overall violence rates, which are quite low in America?
Oh, and by the way, gun violence is decreasing in this country and has been for some time.
Prove it. Please, no nra statistics.
Oh, the denial.
That's easy. Lots of sources, including government statistics, prove we're an increasingly safe society.
The violent crime rate - which includes murder, rape, and beatings - is half of what it was in the early 1990s. And the violent crime rate involving the use of weapons has also declined at a similar pace.
5 Facts About Guns, Schools, And Violence - Reason.com
Mass killings are also on the decline:
Mass shootings are no more common than they have been in past decades, despite the impression given by the media. In fact, the high point for mass killings in the U.S. was 1929
The Facts about Mass Shootings - John Fund - National Review Online
And you won't find America among the countries with the highest murder rate per capita:
Murders (per capita) statistics - Countries Compared - NationMaster
The latest stats I've seen place the US at #102 for murder rates per capita. Pardon the wiki reference:
List of countries by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Of course, there are other ways to look at "violent" crime. Rape is one way and in that case, the US doesn't make the top 50 list of countries with the highest rate of rape per capita:
Rapes (per capita) statistics - countries compared - Crime data on NationMaster
So, not an NRA stat among them. Now what were you saying about denial?
Lots of new crazies doing copycat rampage shootings today -- the crazy who shot the bus driver and carried a six-year-old boy into his bunker; the Alabama office building shooting, the Chicago shooting.
I suddenly realized reading all this news today where we are headed --- we'll be like Brazil or Mexico, with people constantly kidnapping and robbing everyone with guns everywhere. That's typical of societies all around the world where guns are common. I guess we were halfway between the South American gun-crazed culture and the less violent, more civilized European and Asian cultures, but now we're going down to the lowest common denominator. In gun culture as well as many other ways, such as education, lack of marriage, and so on. A lowest-common-denominator plunge. All the other countries are like that in this hemisphere (except Canada), so it's not really remarkable, I guess. Lots of mayhem and murder coming our way, though, from now on.
Yes, we understand people sometimes hurt other people. Still looking for that point.