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Nearly 9% of Americans are angry, impulsive - and have a gun, study says
latimes.com ^
| 4/8/2015
| Melissa Healy
Posted on 07/15/2015 12:07:42 PM PDT by rktman
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To: NFHale
41
posted on
07/15/2015 1:04:59 PM PDT
by
Neoliberalnot
(Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
To: rktman
42
posted on
07/15/2015 1:18:22 PM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: 2nd Amendment
Well . . Im not that impulsive. I usually concentrate on my aim before I fire! So that's why I can't seem to hit a target. I was taught 'Ready. Fire. Aim!'
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posted on
07/15/2015 1:20:04 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: NFHale
44
posted on
07/15/2015 1:46:10 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(No matter the laws that get passed or the edicts given they are just queers, freaks and perverts.)
To: rktman
That’s the problem. It is only 9%. If it were 25% or more we would not have all 3 branches of the federal government colluding with educational and media institutions to implement a tyrannical and oppressive rule over our lives.
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posted on
07/15/2015 1:51:09 PM PDT
by
unlearner
(RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
To: rktman
But anger is just a construct, and I identify as a non-angry person.
46
posted on
07/15/2015 1:54:17 PM PDT
by
matt1234
(Note to GOPe lurkers: I and thousands like me will NEVER vote for Jeb Bush)
To: rktman
Hey! Easy, I resemble that remark.
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posted on
07/15/2015 1:55:51 PM PDT
by
CPT Clay
To: rktman
48
posted on
07/15/2015 2:37:35 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: rktman
Wait lets put this in perspective. There are around 89 to 90 firearms for every 100 people in the US. They are not all spread like peanut butter, so about half the homes have firearms. Still to say that 9% of violent people have access to firearms means that things are really much better than they could be.
To say that violent actions should be viewed as something to watch for in issuing firearms is kind of strange as the federal requirements associated with the FBI background check include domestic violence, felonies, etc. So if violent people are not being screened away from getting firearms, it is only because police and the legal system are not prosecuting violent crime and/or are settling for plea-bargins to lesser charges. That is a justice problem not a gun control problem.
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posted on
07/15/2015 2:39:28 PM PDT
by
Robert357
(D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
To: rktman; All
A lot of them are criminals who carry illegally. Let’s do the math 9% x 1.5% = .135% of angry people who carry.
Let’s say 300 million people over 14. That means .00135 x 300,000,000 = 405,000 angry people who sometimes carry a firearm.
I bet most of them are concentrated in the urban areas that are the crime centers.
And those are the ones that say they do.
To: rktman
Gosh, all those liberal protesters and black rioters that have outbursts of anger, break or smash things, or get into physical fights must have guns! Same with those black bigots like Sharpton, he’s always screaming his head off. Time to round them up and take their guns! (You rarely if ever see conservatives doing riots and carnage.)
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posted on
07/15/2015 2:58:17 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: Pining_4_TX
What about all the angry, impulsive people who own knives and baseball bats? Should we prohibit them from owning these things; issue plastic cutlery perhaps. What about people who have trees? Branches can make great clubs..
What about people with automobiles - they also can make great weapons.
Not to mention people with kitchen knives, scissors, knitting needles, hammers, bottles, gasoline, flour, rope, stairs.........
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posted on
07/15/2015 3:13:50 PM PDT
by
Voice of Reason1
(Absolute power corrupts absolutely Lord Acton 1887)
To: rktman
Well, you don’t have to worry about me then. Revenge is best served cold.
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posted on
07/15/2015 3:17:15 PM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: RetiredTexasVet; Neoliberalnot
Sons of LIberty think alike... :^)
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posted on
07/15/2015 3:19:51 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: rktman
Well with any luck 4.5% of pissed off, impulsive, armed Americans will tick off the other 4.5% of pissed off, impulsive, armed Americans, they’ll take each other out, and we’ll have a more peaceful world.
To: rktman
40% of Americans are obese and own a fork.
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posted on
07/15/2015 6:00:30 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
To: rktman
Be Ye Angry and Sin Not!!
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posted on
07/16/2015 11:20:48 AM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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