Columnist calls for end of NRA, death for gun nuts

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Yeah, I embedded a link to that list above. What's up with South Korea?

They used to get a lot of defections along the DMZ. Could be all that propaganda being broadcast relentlessly by the North.

[Ban Hammer 13,570]

I wonder what's the deal with Tucson?

it's a boring place!

[^_^ 5,021]

it's a boring place!

and you're a farm boy from kansas so you know boring!

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Can someone please explain why almost all the countries listed above the US and have higher suicide rates have way tighter gun control laws?

[Ban Hammer 13,570]

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and you're a farm boy from kansas so you know boring!

no on both counts

[^_^ 5,021]

no on both counts

uh huh

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

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uh huh

by the way, can we change our signatures yet?

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by the way, can we change our signatures yet?

yes

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[himher 634]

LOL

Your pals at the violence policy center lumped ALL firearms related deaths (including deaths occurring from acting in self-defense) into this chart

Smart, but not really accurate

Why dont you post murders per capita see what the numbers look like then? No correlation. Let's play "fun with numbers" and look at state gun ownership rates and state murder rates. Here is both

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#MRord

http://usliberals.about.com/od/Election2012Factors/a/Gun-Owners-As-Percentage-Of-Each-States-Population.htm

And then there's this - the higher the gun ownership rates, the higher the firearm deaths.

Facts suck! We should ban them, eh?

Edited January 5, 2013 by himher

[himher 634]

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/incpovhlth/2011/index.html

Compare poverty rates to murder rates

[himher 634]

District of Columbia

Murder rate 17.5. Higher than violent death rate of Iraq, 2006. Hawaii murder rate 1.2

Gun ownership rate 3% DC. Hawaii gun ownership rate 8.7%

Vermont: Murder rate 1.3. Hawaii 1.2.

Gun ownership rate 42%. Care to explain?

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[himher 634]

Alaska has 58% gun ownership rate. New York has 18% gun ownership rate. The murder rates are identical. 4 per 100000.

Care to explain?

[himher 634]

Michigan and Nebraska have identical gun ownership rates. Murder rate in Michigan is 6.2. Murder rate in Nebraska is 3.6

Why the 72% difference?

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Michigan and Nebraska have identical gun ownership rates. Murder rate in Michigan is 6.2. Murder rate in Nebraska is 3.6

Why the 72% difference?

You need to go back and read my posts, I've already touched on this. The reason is because if you have bad neighborhoods, you will have more crime, and more murders. This is why giving everyone the right to carry a gun in certain areas is just plain stupid. I know people that live in all of those places and it's the same all around.

[himher 634]

What constitutes a bad neighborhood? Poor people? They have the right to defend themselves too. Minorities? Ditto. Same right.

You don't have bad neighborhoods until you ACCEPT/LIVE WITH/TAKE FOR GRANTED/NORMALIZE unacceptable behavior in a neighborhood.

The crime rates / shootings / murder rates correspond to the above and nothing else. There is otherwise no, none, zero correlation between gun ownership rates and murder rates.

We can otherwise play "fun with numbers" all day

You need to go back and read my posts, I've already touched on this. The reason is because if you have bad neighborhoods, you will have more crime, and more murders. This is why giving everyone the right to carry a gun in certain areas is just plain stupid. I know people that live in all of those places and it's the same all around.