Posted on 10/04/2010 6:54:05 PM PDT by smokingfrog
recycle Al Gore
If this represents the “quality” of his analyses and thought processes, then I will certainly have to ignore anything that he states in his travel programs. There must be at least some travel writers who are capable of analysis at a level more sophisticated than the child-like thinking exhibited by this credulous fool...
Take out self defense, police shootings, suicides, and cross border shootings and this drops to almost nothing but accidental shootings.
This is a worthless statistic.
those liberals. Everyone knows over one billion americans are killed every year by gun violence.
LOL!
I think “flaming” is a key word.
Besides deaths from gunshot (and I have no way of knowing whether 500 a week or 26,000 in a year are accurate numbers, I suspect they're not but it's possible) he mentions car deaths. His point is that people should not alter their plans because of threats and fears. And he has a commercial interest, his tour company, in pushing that line.
It can't be denied that America is a relatively violent place and we have been so ever since the country's founding. It's a part of our image that keeps our foreign friends and adversaries a bit on edge, and that's where I like them to be. Nick's warning to Major Strasser that there are parts of New York he would recommend Nazi invaders avoid is a part of our "mystique". I have no problem admitting that, nor in believing that it's guns in the hands of honest American citizens that holds the tide back and keeps it from becoming far worse.
>An average of 500 Americans were killed every week in the last year.
I have several questions about the data here:
1 - Were they all Americans that were counted, or were our “undocumented guest workers” [invaders] counted as well?
2 - Are the home-defense stories universally counted?
3 - Of those who fired the gun; how many were:
—a) Generally law-abiding American Citizens?
—b) Police, LEO, or military exercising *legitimate* force?
—c) Police, LEO, or military exercising illegitimate force (like warrant-less searches/raids)?
—d) Foreign nationals?
—e) Other criminals in execution of a crime?
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