Posted on 11/28/2012 6:48:16 AM PST by marktwain
The FBI has released their 2007-2011 “Murder Victims by Weapon” report. The results are contradictory to anti-gun industry claims that relaxing the ban on assault weapons will cause more crime.
The report indicates you are more likely to be killed by hands or feet than by a rifle or shotgun.
Since 2007 there has been a 16.2% decline in murders committed with personal weapons which are defined as “hands, fists, feet etc.” The number of murders of this type in 2011 totaled 728.
While gun ownership has dramatically increased since 2007, murders for both the shotgun and rifle categories have seen declines faster than the rate of personal weapons related crime.
The rates of decline for the shotgun and rifle categories are 22.1% and 28.7% respectively. In 2011 there were 356 shotgun murders and 323 rifle murders for a total of 679 murders.
Total murders by hands and feet in 2011 exceed the total number of murders by shotgun and rifle. Does that mean gloves and shoes need regulation because they are concealing deadly weapons? No, but it does mean that there is no need for any further regulation of long arms.
If you think I'm joking, it's actually happening. Too bad it's not being used for voter id...
I read where guns are fourth on the list with strangling first knives second then maybe a pipe or hard object then guns.
lol
The usurper’s death panel’s hands that sign your death warrant.
I’m assuming these figures are just for DC. Wonder what the nationwide statistics are?
We need to have a program that requires all hands and feet to be regestered with the police, you must have a picture ID and not be a felon.
In the event you use your hands and feet in an unlawful manner, they need to be removed and melted in a fire. When they outlaw hands and feet only outlaws will have hands and feet.
We need to have a program that requires all hands and feet to be registered with the police, you must have a picture ID and not be a felon.
In the event you use your hands and feet in an unlawful manner, they need to be removed and melted in a fire. When they outlaw hands and feet only outlaws will have hands and feet.
How much is the gift card for turning in hands and feet?
A total ban on hands and feet is in order. It can be done before leaving the hospital or as a rite in a new cool religion. Just like circumcision. \s
The left won’t try banning hands and feet. You can’t resist an oppressive government with hands and feet.
We have a program like that here in my hometown. I went to police station to register my hands and feet.
The desk sergeant told me to take my gloves off so he could examine my hands.
“That right hand looks killer dangerous so I'll register it but that left hand is as wimpy as my grandma's.
Let me see those feet”.
I kicked off my shoes and in a display of flexibility worthy of Spiderman brought my right foot within inches of the officer's face.
Evidently the Odor Eaters had lost their appetites since the sergeant passed out and is still in hospital on oxygen.
The police suggested I depend on something less dangerous...like a sawed off shotgun.
Direct link to the FBI report, to save time:
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What’s amazing is that the left continues to try to institute their worldly utopia by passing law after law after law,
when “thou shall not kill” covers it.
All laws on top of the “big 10” are extraneous.
Good one, still chuckling here.
When hands and feet are outlawed...
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