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Keeping that family safe
On 7/11/2014 2:11 AM, jps wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:40:45 -0400, wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:02:33 -0700, jps wrote:
The vast majority are suicides, somewhere around 17 - 19,000 a year.
Murders are around 11,000 a year.
So you think if there were no guns, there would be no suicides?
Just look at Japan, one of your ideal countries. No guns and a much
higher suicide rate than the US.
The more you drill down on the numbers, the worse your case gets.
I have pointed out Australia many times. They got rid of most of their
guns and it had very little effect of on the slope of their murder
rate.
Well, we certainly did shift real quick there, eh? Went from 31,000
gun deaths a year coming out of my ass to, wouldn't it happen anyway?
And you're dead wrong about Australia, they've virtually eliminated
mass shootings from their society.
Well, we certainly did shift real quick there eh? Mass murders? He was
talking about the general murder rate... b
My point is, if guns make a country safer, we should be the safest
****ing country on the planet. They don't and we're not.
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