Guns and crime

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

In 2013, guns were used to murder 11,208 people and injure 84,258 during criminal activity. That total is 95,466 people shot.


Ignoring that the same guns are often used over and over in crime, let's pretend that a different gun was used for all 95,466 of those crimes. Then compare that number with the over 300,000,000 guns in private hands. That's about 0.03% of the guns in the US or 1 out of 3,100 is used in a crime.


Make no mistake; the triggers don't pull themselves even though I hear a lot...
...that guns kill people. Are the other 3,099 guns broken?



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[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. We're supposed to take away all the guns so that the 0.03% are rendered absolutely powerless.

It's true, I heard it on the internet.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. Oh yes and...

...my boyfriend is a French model... Bone jur

[ileus]

2. Guns kill people.....everyone with #gunsense knows that.

Without firearms there would be no violent crime.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. If only we could get Smokey the Bear to help...

...we could stamp out gunz, then love and peace would spread like cream cheese on my bagel.

kumbaya

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[OakCliffDem]

6. Without firearms, everyone would be equal

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Don't believe those lies told about Sam Colt

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[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. Some will always be more equal than others

[GGJohn]

12. So, you're telling us, with a straight face,

that a 100 lb. woman is equal to a 200 lb. man?

[OakCliffDem]

15. It was a popular saying in the 20th century, but unknown in the 19th

"God created men, but Sam Colt made them equal"

Variations:

"God created men, Colonel Colt made them equal"

"Some men are big, some men are small, but Sam Colt made them all equal"

"God made some men big and others small, but Samuel Colt made them equal"

"God created all men, but Sam Colt made them equal"

"Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them equal"

"God created men and women, but Sam Colt made them equal"

[GGJohn]

16. Ahhhh, ok.

I get it now.
Thanks for the clarification, and I do remember those sayings.

[ileus]

5. Looks like I'm the only "real" democrat that's voted.

[pablo_marmol]

18. Damn......wish I could be a real Democrat.

Then I'd have a really big tool.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. shameless self kick

[TeddyR]

9. This seemed like an ok place to post this story

According to the Washington Post, "In D.C.’s homicide spike, a new trend: Some involve past violent offenders."

More than 10 percent of the District’s spiking number of homicides this year have involved previously known violent offenders who have recently been released from prison, D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said Thursday.

“Multiple of our offenders involved in homicide have previous homicide charges and are recently back in the community,” Lanier said at a news conference.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/in-dcs-homicide-spike-a-new-trend-many-suspects-are-past-offenders/2015/08/13/6fbe417a-41d9-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html?hpid=z2

Of course, I find it hard to believe that this is a "new trend." And the chief of police has to drop a statement about "high capacity magazines" - whatever those actually are - "flooding" the streets.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

10. Here's an idea...

...keep them locked up.

[Eleanors38]

11. Violent felons on the loose are of more concern than magazine size.

But some push this TalkingPoint© with dull consistency.

[pablo_marmol]

13. Yer all full of crap.

Everybody knows that the evil intrinsic to the gun passes into the body of the gun owner through some form of hideous osmosis, and drives him to desire murder and rampage. Resistance is futile. The gun CANNOT be brought under control.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

14. control is a myth

Guns will infect your mind and curve your spine.
Guns ARE the evil Americans your momma warned you about.

[pablo_marmol]

17. Thank you.

Guns are the reason I have a curved spine, and the bulged discs + sciatica that comes with it, dammit.

Wish I had received momma's warning earlier.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

19. How did they miss guns?

That smell of the powder, the MC-7 and FP-10...
Possibly those don't rhyme well.



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