Posted on 10/04/2010 6:54:05 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Domestic safety alert: 500 Americans will be killed by guns this week in the USA. For safety, we advise taking loved ones to a safer continent such as Europe. (This is true. Five hundred Americans were killed by guns last week in the USA. An average of 500 Americans were killed every week in the last year. Officials are perplexed why no one seems to care in the USA. Perhaps being killed by a Muslim with a gun is more painful or evil.) And furthermore, 200 Americans will be killed by drunk drivers in the USA next week (12,000 died in alcohol-related accidents in the USA last year...a typical year).
The US government has stepped up the drone attacks inside Pakistan in the last month, killing many good and bad people. Our intelligence community has intercepted chatter that terrorists are planning to unleash some kind of retaliation against "soft targets" in Europe. So, the USA has issued a "Travel Alert," warning citizens to be "vigilant" in Europe. A "Travel Warning," which is much more serious, is not under consideration. The alert says little beyond the world is a dangerous place. And I knew that already. It advises people to stay away from unattended packages and to scram if they see violence...always common sense, even without a government alert.
When asked, the government officials who issued the warning stressed, "We are not saying to defer travel plans to Europe. Absolutely not."
Here at Europe Through the Back Door, this is our busiest season for tours. We have thousands of travelers in Europe this fall. My son is there in Barcelona as I type. I'd be there tomorrow if I didn't have work to do here in the statistically much more dangerous USA.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.com ...
Travel Alert Issued: 500 Americans Will Be Killed by Guns This Week in the USA. For Safety's Sake, Leave the Country Now!
Subtract the “Americans” shot during gang related activity and the drunken illegal aliens and things don’t look quiet as bad.
“Five hundred Americans were killed by guns last week”
Killed by other people or self murder, not guns.
Stat includes suicide?
Start by leaving all cities controlled by Democrats and move to places with conceal-carry laws. Much safer!
480 of them are bad guys....
Rick Steeves, flaming left wing lunatic travel guide.
Bye.
Yes. About 300 of the 500 are suicides. About 190 of the remaining 200 are homicides about 12 - 16 are accidents. Of the 190 homicides, about 110 or so are criminals being killed by other criminals or citizens.
None of the above are killed by “guns”. They are killed with guns. The left is all about your choice to commit suicide, as long as it is by government approved doctors.
Suicides are a large percentage of people killed by guns.
Steves is just another one-world, PBS, delusional loon - paid by us, the U.S. taxpayer.
Defund PBS and NPR!
“Ethical Suicide Parlors”
Coming soon to a street near you.
Does this moron realize that would require 26,000 gun deaths per year?
People who can’t do simple math trying to tell me how to live my life can cram it into their sigmoid colon.
If you add about 15,000 suicides to about 10,000 homicides and about 600 accidents, it comes to about 26,000.
Relevant to your "Through the Back Door" European interests ping.
It does make collecting for the Soylent Green easier.
“Recycling is good”
~ Al Gore
I didn’t know guns just go and kill 500 Americans (not illegal aliens) each year. I heard that knife, hammer, screwdriver, baseball bat, car, train, airplane, etc., and now recently facebook and YouTube got into the killing business, too. We can’t jail them all so, what we going to do? Stevens…?
You’re right, of course, I was thinking only of murders. Of course, I suspect the author was, too, or he wouldn’t have phrased it as a safety issue.
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