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And here's a link from GIantone's favorite news source:


5 of the Most Absurd Gun Comments from Joe Biden | TheBlaze.com (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/12/joe-bidens-5-most-absurd-quotes-about-firearms-and-gun-owners/)

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Look, every death is tragic (though every one will die), but using those stats, in 2010, the US population was 308,745,538 (http://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/), and there were 27,503 gun deaths. So for the sake of .09% of the population you are willing to surrender a constitutional right for the whole population.

a quick google of auto deaths in 2010 showed this: In 2010, there were an estimated 5,419,000 crashes, killing 32,885 and injuring 2,239,000. As far as I know there is no constitutional right to own a car, so by your logic shouldn't we outlaw them?

from CDC fact sheet (http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/overdose/facts.html):In 2010, of the 38,329 drug overdose deaths in the United States, 22,134 (60%) were related to pharmaceuticals. so, do we stop prescribing life saving drugs?

The list could go on and on I think, but the point, which I am sure you-G1- will ignore or miss, is that many deaths occur every year, most are not due to 94 year old people falling peacefully asleep never to wake up. We, as a society, should not so easily give up rights which were fought for, and written in to the backbone of our law because there were people who used or abused the rights and privileges our society has ascribed a value too.

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Look, every death is tragic.....
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Well, not every one.

Child molesters? No. Serial Killers? No. Rapists? No.

We've tried this numbers logic before, Obama spoiled it by using the "If only one child's life is saved" BS, so now numbers have no meaning.

The argument won't stand because it doesn't fit the utopian narrative. More lives are saved than taken by guns.

I'm only stating that to provoke the numbers people.

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See if you can guess what I'm inferring with this story:

27 dead, 109 injured in knife attack on Kunming railway station (http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438306/27-dead-109-injured-knife-attack-kunming-railway-station)

A group of knife-wielding men dressed in black attacked Kunming Railway Station last night. At least 27 people were killed and 109 injured.

Online postings by witnesses said the men began to hack passers-by “crazily” with long knives shortly after 9pm. The attack started outside the station and continued to the ticket hall.

Gunshots were heard and Xinhua said “several predators were shot dead” by police.

Also, expect Western news agencies to sanitize this report by using the local term 'Uyghers'.

See if you can guess what I'm inferring with this story:

27 dead, 109 injured in knife attack on Kunming railway station (http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438306/27-dead-109-injured-knife-attack-kunming-railway-station)

A group of knife-wielding men dressed in black attacked Kunming Railway Station last night. At least 27 people were killed and 109 injured.

Online postings by witnesses said the men began to hack passers-by “crazily” with long knives shortly after 9pm. The attack started outside the station and continued to the ticket hall.

Gunshots were heard and Xinhua said “several predators were shot dead” by police.

Also, expect Western news agencies to sanitize this report by using the local term 'Uyghers'.



Ban steaks! Eat more vegetables!

Ban steaks! Eat more vegetables!

MD, I always advocate being vegan or at least vegetarian. But, no, that wasn't what I was inferring.

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MD, I always advocate being vegan or at least vegetarian. But, no, that wasn't what I was inferring.

Sent from my DROID RAZR using TapatalkHey, you don't NEED steak knives, especially if those unhealthy meat products are banned.

If it would save even ONE life, we should do without those unnecessarily large knives.




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Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/)

National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences by decade: Violence plunged through the 1990s, but has declined less dramatically since 2000.
Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.
Nearly all the decline in the firearm homicide rate took place in the 1990s; the downward trend stopped in 2001 and resumed slowly in 2007. The victimization rate for other gun crimes plunged in the 1990s, then declined more slowly from 2000 to 2008. The rate appears to be higher in 2011 compared with 2008, but the increase is not statistically significant. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall also dropped in the 1990s before declining more slowly from 2000 to 2010, then ticked up in 2011.
Despite national attention to the issue of firearm violence, most Americans are unaware that gun crime is lower today than it was two decades ago. According to a new Pew Research Center survey, today 56% of Americans believe gun crime is higher than 20 years ago and only 12% think it is lower.
Looking back 50 years, the U.S. gun homicide rate began rising in the 1960s, surged in the 1970s, and hit peaks in 1980 and the early 1990s. (The number of homicides peaked in the early 1990s.) The plunge in homicides after that meant that firearm homicide rates in the late 2000s were equal to those not seen since the early 1960s.1 (http://www.thewarpath.net/#fn-16975-1) The sharp decline in the U.S. gun homicide rate, combined with a slower decrease in the gun suicide
rate, means that gun suicides now account for six-in-ten firearms deaths, the highest share since at least 1981.

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