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In reply to the discussion: WHY is There so much HATE in this country??? [View all]proudretiredvet
(312 posts)This is what you said. You own it.
buying a gun. I would love to see the stats for the level of gun violence in this country. It seems like its gotten worse. 10 Years ago, no one walked into a school and gun down teachers and kids. No one walked into a church and gunned down the ministers, or walked into a movie theater and killed a lot of people.
It started much earlier than that and they did not need or use to kill many more children than any of the more recent school or church shootings. Your original context was schools and churches. If you wish to try another discussion we can go there next.
The latest gun stats in our country show that there has been a very large increase in the purchase of firearms during the Obama presidency and that during that same period of time violent crime has gone down. So according to those stats more guns mean less violent crime.
Still want to stay with the "stats?"
OK we could look at the stats that clearly show that in the cities with the harshest and most restrictive gun control the events of gun violence are higher, per capita, than other areas with very lax gun laws.
I have lots of very real and true stats. I love the stat game.
Back to your post. Kids getting killed in school did not start 10 years ago and guns are not necessary to kill people. Mankind has been doing that to each other far longer than guns have been around.
I have a lot of stats about people getting killed in churches more than 10 years ago too where guns were not involved. Shall I post them too?
The statement about not before 10 years ago, remember that?
Here is a list of about a hundred school shootings that started more than a hundred years ago and most of which were before 10 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
Will that be crow, rare or well done?
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