01-11-2010, 02:21 PM
I'm not arguing you don't have a constitutional right to bear arms, how exciting for you!
I challenge the bullshit argument that it doesn't matter how many guns there are in private ownership and it has no effect on the number of gun related deaths and crimes because thats bullshit.
Gun death rates are seven times higher in states with higher numbers of guns in ownership compared with states with lower gun ownership.
FACT.
More guns = more gun homicides.
Luckily the number of households with guns is coming down, 54% of households in 1977 compared to 33% of households in 2009.
However the number of guns being purchased has gone up because the average number of guns one person owns has gone up from 4.1 in 1994 to 6.9 in 2004.
Why anybody needs nearly seven guns is beyond me, unless you live in the Gaza strip or Baghdad.
I challenge the bullshit argument that it doesn't matter how many guns there are in private ownership and it has no effect on the number of gun related deaths and crimes because thats bullshit.
Gun death rates are seven times higher in states with higher numbers of guns in ownership compared with states with lower gun ownership.
FACT.
More guns = more gun homicides.
Luckily the number of households with guns is coming down, 54% of households in 1977 compared to 33% of households in 2009.
However the number of guns being purchased has gone up because the average number of guns one person owns has gone up from 4.1 in 1994 to 6.9 in 2004.
Why anybody needs nearly seven guns is beyond me, unless you live in the Gaza strip or Baghdad.
We need to punish the French, ignore the Germans and forgive the Russians - Condoleezza Rice.