Nailed It !
Posted on 02/20/2016 11:51:07 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
In the US there are currently more guns than humans, between 300m and 350m registered firearms.
Each year they are responsible for about 34,000 deaths. Many of those are suicides, some are accidents, but that still leaves approximately 14,000 homicides a year.
So what drives people to own guns?
BBC News visited Richmond, Virginia, and the Florida Everglades to meet gun enthusiasts and get beneath the surface of America's passion for arms.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
And how many of those 14,000 homicides are gang-bangers killing each other or perps killed while committing crimes?
Almost all of them. Very few stranger related murders.
So what drives people to own guns?
Because many of those 14,000 fatalities were people who needed to be killed?
As my e-room doctor friend jokes, the first words out of the mouth of a black guy with bullets in him is “I got no idea who shot me”
Without Americans and guns the BBC would be broadcasting in German.
I love my guns at least as much as servile Euro-Trash loves their kings and dictators.
Registering guns is a dream of the progressives and would lead to confiscation. We must never have a gun registry.
Keep safe by keeping the 2nd amendment sacred like the rest of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution to which they were added.
I love my guns more than Europe loves their rapeugees. Or I did until that tragic boating accident.
Most of them. Take out Chicago, NOLA, MD, Detroit, the number would tank.
Registered? I doubt it.
but that still leaves approximately 14,000 homicides a year.
Nope. Most deaths by firearm are the result of police shootings.
Nailed It !
BS
I couldn’t get the film to play, but I am nauseated by the propaganda line in the excerpt:
“Each year they [firearms] are responsible for about 34,000 deaths.”
When a criminal stabs someone to death in the UK, do they arrest and charge the knife? Does the Queen’s Bench routinely sentence knives to long terms in a locked cutlery drawer? The BBC tells us that inanimate objects are responsible for whatever is done with them, so I must assume they hold that humans who misuse tools are not.
So how many people are killed in self defense?
So how many people are killed in self defense?
Spent an awful lot of time videoing a full auto sub gun.
Authors credibility is gone right from the beginning sentence. The guns do not cause the deaths it is the people who cause them.
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