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kpete

(72,904 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:55 AM Jan 2013

"The Only Thing that Stops a Bad Guy with a Gun - Is a Good Guy With a Gun".

Really?

Ok, so why exactly does the map of national gun deaths from 2006 look like this..

Firearm Deaths Per State 2006 via The Atlantic

While the map of states with the toughest gun laws look like this?

Strength of Gun Laws per State

Hmmm.... Is there a pattern forming?

MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177729/-So-Guns-Don-t-Kill-People-eh

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So, Guns Don't Kill People? [View all] kpete Jan 2013 OP

I wonder... cyberswede Jan 2013 #1

most gun deaths are suicides. GeorgeGist Jan 2013 #3

don't you know Shadowflash Jan 2013 #4

Every one of those gun deaths had someone's finger on the trigger kudzu22 Jan 2013 #5

Let's look at the issue from a different perspective slackmaster Jan 2013 #6

Does Not Really Help Your Case Very Much, Sir The Magistrate Jan 2013 #7

Yo slacky 2ndAmForComputers Jan 2013 #9

Not a single gun has ever killed anyone, ever geomon666 Jan 2013 #8

There is no pattern here Drahthaardogs Jan 2013 #10