On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 1:01:34 PM UTC-5, iBoaterer wrote:
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:55:56 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:



So in your narrow mind, the only gun violence is "mass shootings"?? Gee,

then we have a really low number of gun violence incidences, but what do

we do about the 100's of thousands of others?



100s of thousands?



Cite that



No problem!!



http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/guns.cfm

From that site:

"Firearm-related crime has plummeted since 1993."

"According to the 1997 Survey of State Prison Inmates, among those posessing a gun, the source of the gun was from -

- a flea market or gun show for fewer than 2%
- a retail store or pawnshop for about 12%
- family, friends, a street buy, or an illegal source for 80%"

Where's that 90% you claim are stolen? No cite for that?


http://www.nij.gov/topics/crime/gun-...ce/welcome.htm

Funny, if you drill down on this data, it separates deaths by handgun and "other guns". Since assault rifles aren't handguns, we must include them in with rifles and shotguns in "other guns". And the data shows not only that handgun deaths occur at around 4X the rate as all "other guns" combined, but also that the rate of deaths for all types have reduced sharply since the '90s, which is exactly what I quoted in another thread.

Even more interesting is that the "other guns" death rate number roughly equals "knife" in deaths. JPS, pay attention.

Thanks for not reading or understanding your own links enough to realize they don't support your statements at all.