“Hundreds of thousands of American lives hang in the balance.”
Liar.
The murder rate in the U.S. is around 18,000 per year, a rate not too different than many countries with extreme gun control.
Dear BI,
I don’t give rat’s a$$ what “everyone” else thinks.
Now go make me a sammich, biatch!
Dear Foreigner, you should take our Black Folks off our hands to help keep them safe. Any interest?
All this really tells me is that I really don’t think BI has anything of benefit to me.
I wonder what would happen if they correlated all those murder charts with demographic information.
” Other countries don’t have America’s gun problem. “
Blah blah....OTHER countries are careful who they let live there. We let every slimeball POS who can fog up a mirror in, especially illegal immigrants.
I remember a story from a couple of years ago about a crazy guy in China who killed more than twenty people with a knife by attacking a crowd in a bus station (or perhaps it was a train station).
And remember the case of George Weller, who killed 10 and injured 63 by driving his car at high speed into a crowded farmer’s market in Santa Monica.
You need to get with the program.
Mexico is proof gun control works.
I’ve also heard hand grenade control works just as well as gun control in Mexico.
He means other countries don't have America's pesky FREEDOM problem.
That's true. In progressive countries like North Korea the government can kill it's citizens with total impunity. In American due to the proliferation of guns the government can't yet do the same. Which poses a problem for people like Bill Ayres and their acolytes.
I’d be on my way to the cop shop to turn ‘em in. —
Read about Germany, pre WWII.
Couldn’t own one, couldn’t touch one, had to turn them in to police.
Folks supposedly dragged them in on the end of a rope.
Crime and Self-Defense
* Roughly 16,272 murders were committed in the United States during 2008. Of these, about 10,886 or 67% were committed with firearms.[11]
* A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 0.5% of households had members who had used a gun for defense during a situation in which they thought someone “almost certainly would have been killed” if they “had not used a gun for protection.” Applied to the U.S. population, this amounts to 162,000 such incidents per year. This figure excludes all “military service, police work, or work as a security guard.”[12]
* Based on survey data from the U.S. Department of Justice, roughly 5,340,000 violent crimes were committed in the United States during 2008. These include simple/aggravated assaults, robberies, sexual assaults, rapes, and murders.[13] [14] [15] Of these, about 436,000 or 8% were committed by offenders visibly armed with a gun.[16]
* Based on survey data from a 2000 study published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology,[17] U.S. civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year.[18]
* A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 3.5% of households had members who had used a gun “for self-protection or for the protection of property at home, work, or elsewhere.” Applied to the U.S. population, this amounts to 1,029,615 such incidents per year. This figure excludes all “military service, police work, or work as a security guard.”[19]
* A 1994 survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Americans use guns to frighten away intruders who are breaking into their homes about 498,000 times per year.[20]
* A 1982 survey of male felons in 11 state prisons dispersed across the U.S. found:[21]
• 34% had been “scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim”
• 40% had decided not to commit a crime because they “knew or believed that the victim was carrying a gun”
• 69% personally knew other criminals who had been “scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim”[22]
* Click here to see why the following commonly cited statistic does not meet Just Facts’ Standards of Credibility: “In homes with guns, the homicide of a household member is almost 3 times more likely to occur than in homes without guns.”
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp
Really, the opinions of ferners, and in particular Euro-weenies, is of no value.
Perhaps not, but I don't hear him bitching about beheadings in other countries. Methinks Obozo has an agenda to disarm the American citizen and most voters aren't capable of thinking for themselves and understand the long run implications of that.
Most Americans don’t have a problem with guns,
it’s liberals that have a gun problem,
America has a CRIME problem.
[[Other countries don’t have America’s gun problem.]]
Um yeah they do
there seems ot be a rash of gun control threads and news reports lately- it’s pretty apparent that this is the next thing the left and the supreme court are going to force on us
If I did answer telephone polls, guns? There was that big hurricane a couple of years ago, and, well....
The United States does not have a "gun problem". It has a free-range crazy people problem, and it has a violent criminal problem.
I do think that if NICS background checks are at record highs, it's wishful thinking to believe that fewer households have guns than did 40 years ago.