candycorn
Diamond Member
Again, the lack of source material is quite telling.
2017: 505 accidental gun deaths
2017: 326,000,000 estimated population in U.S.
Gun violence in the United States - Wikipedia
U.S. Population (2018) - Worldometers
Nuff said
If you aren’t a gang member, in the committing a crime or committing suicide, the odds of dying be gun?
1.55 in 3,000,000,000In my 68 years on this earth I have lived in the country, in a small town and in a large city. I have lived alone and with my family. I have walked through the city alone at 3:00 am and at no time have I ever felt the need to own a gun.
I have never been attacked or robbed, except our house was broken into once when we went to the cottage. The thief stole my husband’s pot plants. The expensive camera sitting on the shelf beside them was left behind.
If you own a gun, you have a 250% greater chance of being shot than if you don’t own a gun. If guns kept you safe, Americans would be the safest people in the world. Instead, theirs in the least safe country in the first world.
Wow...did that hurt when you pulled that number out of your ass....since no research actually shows that as being true, factual or based in reality....
Do you know that each rape, robbery and murder victim believed the exact same thing you believe....until they are raped, robbed or murdered?
Do you understand that Britain has banned and confiscated guns......and their gun crime rate has increased every year? It was up 23% across England and Wales...up 42% in London and up 30% in Yorkshire.....do you fucking understand that?
Do you understand that Sweden has gone from the Swedish Bikini team to the land of guns and grenades? Do you understand that?
Do you understand that criminals in France get fully automatic military rifles so easily, they are status symbols for them?
And as more Americans own and carry guns....?
We went from 200 million guns in private hands in the 1990s and 4.7 million people carrying guns for self defense in 1997...to close to 400-600 million guns in private hands and over 17 million people carrying guns for self defense in 2017...guess what happened...
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-- gun murder down 49%
--gun crime down 75%
--violent crime down 72%
Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware
Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.
Do YOU understand that the murder rates in the US are 7 times those of the nearest first world country and no it’s not just inner city criminals.
Do YOU realize that in other countries, they count simple assaults that the US doesn’t even keep track of, as violent crimes?
Do YOU understand that more Americans in the US have been killed by guns in the past 30 years than in all of the wars in the past 100 years.
There is no way that you can frame the numbers to show the US is safer because of the availability of guns.
Gun are NOT keeping you safe.
To further show how innacurate that point is....According to the CDC, Americans use guns 2.4 million times a year to stop crimes...that means lives saved, rapes stopped, lives that are not ruined by violent criminals.......
so....
30 years X 2,400,000 = 72,000,000 million crimes stopped by Americans who own and carry guns....
The CDC did the research.... they did research from 1996-1998..... they found 2.4 million defensive gun uses by Americans.... they hid the data. The Department of Justice also researched gun self defense...they found 1.5 million defensive gun uses.....in 1995...... so tell them they are wrong....
Quite clearly, they are.
People....When you hear the bullshit stat of 72,000,000 million crimes stopped by someone with a gun in the last 30 years; ask yourself simple questions; do you know someone who actively stopped a violent crime with a gun? It is quite likely that you do not. Certainly, with 72,000,000 people out there stopping violent crimes, you should have run across probably 100 or 200. Again, do you know someone? Do any of the people you know have an awareness of a guy with a gun actively stopping someone by using a gun? Again, likely not. As pointed out by another poster, that is 6575 times a day or, if you prefer 273 times an hour; every hour; even at 4AM in the morning on Christmas!!!!
9/11 Truthers make more sense than this jerk.