10-30-2015, 06:25 AM
(10-30-2015, 02:48 AM)crash Wrote: You found one guy in the last month, well done. I'm sure there are a few more throughout the year too. But it still doesn't pale in comparison. Try harder..
Hey . . . it just happened to be a link in the article FU posted.
Just found it ironic that a boatload of prohibited firearms and a slingshot found their way into OZ.
And that a guy was killed, by a firearm in broad daylight, and the suspect eluded capture.
We are a gun culture . . . like Switzerland.
I refuse to apologize for this heritage and to the callous and selfish actions of thugs and criminals.
Hell . . . our judiciary allows illegal immigrants to possess firearms.
Our US Supreme Court upheld the right of a Negro to own and carry a firearm, publicly, BEFORE Lincoln freed the slaves (unfortunately, the Chicago niggers took this right to the extreme).
We are a gun culture.
I am appalled we have a homicide rate of approximately 5 per 100,000 people (3.2 of the total 5 per 100,000, with firearms). I will not defend or suggest we shouldn't try and reduce it. However, in 1993, the per-capita murder rate with firearms was 6.6, with an estimated 190+ million firearms, in the US.
In 2011, the rate was 3.2, with an estimated 320 million firearms.
More guns . . . lower rates? Odd.
I am less concerned that I will be a victim of gun violence than I am of being a victim due to a distracted driver.
We aren't Brazil . . . or Honduras . . . or Russia . . . where gun ownership per capita is almost nil, compared with the US, and it's damned near impossible to legally own a firearm. So why are their gun homicide rates off the chart?
Until the attack in Newtown, Connecticut, the three worst K– 12 public school massacres in the world all occurred in Europe . . . countries where strict gun control laws were already in place.
The world focuses on the US mass-killings with firearms . . . as if they only happen here. How 'bout our neighbors on the other side of the Atlantic? Here's a few from 2001 to 2010 in countries with strict gun control:
- Zug, Switzerland, September 27, 2001: a man murdered 15 members of a cantonal parliament.
- Tours, France, October 29, 2001: four people were killed and 10 wounded when a French railway worker started killing people at a busy intersection in the city.
- Nanterre, France, March 27, 2002: a man kills eight city councilors after a city council meeting.
- Erfurt, Germany on April 26, 2002: a former student kills 18 at a secondary school.
- Freising, Germany on February 19, 2002: Three people killed and one wounded.
- Turin, Italy on October 15, 2002: Seven people were killed on a hillside overlooking the city.
- Madrid, Spain, October 1, 2006: a man kills two employees and wounds another at a company that he was fired from.
- Emsdetten, Germany, November 20, 2006: a former student murders 11 people at a high school.
- Southern Finland, November 7, 2007: Seven students and the principal were killed at a high school.
- Naples, Italy, September 18, 2008: Seven dead and two seriously wounded in a public meeting hall (not included in totals below because it may possibly have involved the mafia).
- Kauhajoki, Finland, Sept. 23, 2008: 10 people were shot to death at a college.
- Winnenden, Germany, March 11, 2009: a 17-year-old former student killed 15 people, including nine students and three teachers.
- Lyon, France, March 19, 2009: ten people injured after a man opened fire on a nursery school.
- Athens, Greece, April 10, 2009: three people killed and two people injured by a student at a vocational college.
- Rotterdam, Netherlands, April 11, 2009: three people killed and 1 injured at a crowded cafe.
- Vienna, Austria, May 24, 2009: one dead and 16 wounded in an attack on a Sikh Temple.
- Espoo, Finland, Dec. 31, 2009: 4 killed while shopping at a mall on New Year's Eve.
- Cumbria, England, June 2, 2010: 12 people killed by a British taxi driver.
- Dunblane, Scotland in 1996: 16 kindergartners and their teacher were shot.
We are a gun culture . . . most of Europe is not.
Like Europe, we are a nation of laws.
And like Europe . . . we, too, have criminals.
I'm not Avis . . . I don't need to try harder.
An aside: Hope all is well and you consider a "tiny house".