* Maxprop wrote, On 4/18/2007 7:10 PM:
It's far more than a few dozen, Every year in the US more than 30,000
are killed by guns in murders, suicides and accidents, over 65,000 are
injured.

I'd think it's worth looking at.

Gun control, as proposed by its advocates might result in saving a few dozen
lives each year. The vast majority of gun deaths in this country are
inner-city gangs and thugs shooting each other. Look it up.

It looks like you're taking stupid lessons from Joe. You should
really look at the stats sometime. First of all, half of the gun
deaths are from suicide, and the suicide rate in inner cities is
actually quite low. However, I appreciate that those against gun
control assume that anyone who would commit suicide by gun would find
another way, but that another debate, so I'll move on.

Although the large cities certainly have more than their share of
murder, almost half of all homicides are in communities under 100,000
population, a full third in communities under 50,000.

There were a lot a family murders - over 1800 were in the immediate
family, plus 600 boy/girlfriends. Also, there were 400 fiends and
neighbors.

Or looking at it another way, 2000 of the victims were women who were
not likely to be gang members.

Several thousand were murders during a felony, half of those
robberies. And the largest category is "arguments."

When all are tallied, it turns out that of 14,860 homicides in 2005,
only 754 were considered "Juvenile gang killings" and another 96 were
"Gangland." You can argue that there are large number of "not
specified" and "unknown," but there's no way you can jiggle the
numbers such that the "vast majority" are inner-city gangs.

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/offens...rtable_09.html


Gun control laws will have no effect on the inner city gangs. They possess
their guns illegally as it is.

True. Here in Boston, when the gang's arsenal runs low, they take a
road trip to VA or NC.

Washington DC has the toughest gun control
laws in the country. It also is perennially a leader in gun deaths.

True. They only have to take a subway ride to buy a gun.

Here's a question for you: if guns aren't used outside of inner
cities, why does everyone out of the cities need a gun for protection?