Posted on 09/30/2015 9:21:57 AM PDT by rktman
It shows that there were 11,961 murders in 2014 (there were 31 total in the U.S. territories). And 8,124 of those were committed by firearms.
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LeftistLiberals
This was essentially the case last year too and every year before that.
Obviously a clear message that we need to ban assault rifles. Whatever they are. Odd that the bread down handguns, rifles, shotguns, firearms (unknows what type) but fail to break down ‘hand, foot, elbow, knee, head-butt’ etc. Sharp edged instruments, ‘knife, machete, axe, sword, cleaver etc.’. Guess they’re busier doing this than persuing the hildebeast.
Yeah, and Krazy Kat and his bricks.
How many of those came out of NYC, Chicago, Baltimore, LA, DC, and every other supposedly “gun free” shithole in the US?
Gun control can more accurately be described as people control, or to be absoluty specific, “law-biding white people control”.
Once the the thorn of civic-minded white people is mooted, the elites will run riot over our laws and freedoms.
Note how it’s the behavior of criminals that precedes calls for regular people to give up their freedoms.
To a rational person, it does not compute.
The other stat that’s floating around is that the FBI did something on the order of 22 million BG checks for gun purchases last year. Despite the fact that we are buying guns and rates never seen before, gun-related crime is down by something on the order of 4%. And yet we still have the “assault rifle” nonsense.
Excellent point. between Chicago, Baltimore and DC that is probably at least 1,000 homicides.
Am I missing something here?
Assault rifles(automatic fire) are highly regulated already.
“Assault weapons” is the made up liberal term to scare people.
I notice more and more that Assault Rifle is used when they are talking about “Assault Weapons” and I think it is intentional.
[[And 8,124 of those were committed by firearms.]]
“Alcohol-related highway crashes accounted for 13,365 deaths in 2010”
Libmath. Guns killed far more people than automobiles and cars are registered. Or something.
How many were white suicides?
How many were black inner city criminals.
Let’s get a true picture of what’s happening in the country.
i imagine there is lots of things that are deadlier.
Then there is the medical related deaths
From http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/02/03/death-by-doctor-vs-death-by-firearms/
The Journal American Medical Association
Barbara Starfield
Medical Cause Death Annual Number of Deaths
Deaths from medication errors in hospitals
7,000
Deaths from unnecessary surgeries
12,000
Deaths from other errors in hospitals
20,000
Deaths from infections acquired in hospitals
80,000
Deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines
106,000
Total of medically-caused deaths in the US every year
225,000
And that report was published in 2000
I would leave NYC out of your equation. St Louis has 315,000 people and 151 homicides so far this year. NYC, population, 8.4 million, plus 1 million illegals, plus another 600,000 commuters,(10 million) has 251 homicides this year. If you want a reason as to why, NYC issues premise permits for business owners to protect their stores. NYC laws are horrible for full carry permits, but at least the premise permits knock down the number of armed robberies, dramatically.
Actually, Hitler invented the term. He called one of his new, select fire automatic carbines “sturmgewehr”. Translated it means “assault rifle” Now the libs have certainly made a bogeyman of it, that’s for sure.
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