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| CNN report on guns; Anyone watching? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 9 2013, 08:15 AM (1,026 Views) | |
| Sea Dog | Dec 9 2013, 08:15 AM Post #1 |
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Japan has four gun murders per year. Wonder why they don't want five thousand like America? |
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| colo_crawdad | Dec 9 2013, 08:25 AM Post #2 |
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I did not see that program, but I did see the Denver Broncos score 51 points against Tennessee. GO BRONCOS! |
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| Sea Dog | Dec 9 2013, 08:30 AM Post #3 |
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Actually, the program is probably a waste of money. Doubtful if it changes the minds of any gun nuts. |
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| Brewster | Dec 9 2013, 08:55 AM Post #4 |
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It's even worse than that, Sea. On top of the 5,000 murders, there's another 25,000 accidents, suicides and God knows what else every year. |
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| Neutral | Dec 9 2013, 09:03 AM Post #5 |
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Yawn |
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| Summer | Dec 9 2013, 09:36 AM Post #6 |
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here's some more facts - In 2011, guns were used to murder 8,583 people living in the U.S., according to the most recent FBI data available. Among those murdered by guns, there were 565 young people under the age of 18, and 119 children ages 12 or younger -- the latter number nearly equivalent to six Newtown mass shootings. And these figures include only homicides. “It’s staggering,” said Lindsay Nichols, an attorney with the California-based public interest law firm and gun-control advocacy organization the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. “We are all shocked by the news in Newtown, Conn., but when you think about it, it is equally tragic and equally horrific every day so many families suffer this loss and that every year there are so many funerals of children that family members have to attend.“ Just Tuesday, Paul Sampleton Sr. found the body of his 14-year-old son, Paul Sampleton Jr., bound and shot dead in the family’s Grayson, Ga. home. Police suspect the boy may have interrupted a robbery. The Sampleton family will mark a very different kind of Christmas this year, then bury their son next Friday. Then there are the stories of children killed in gun accidents and suicides. In 2010, the most recent year for which detailed Centers for Disease Control data is available, 129 people between the ages of 1 and 19 died in gun accidents. Another 749 took their own lives using a firearm, most of which were owned by a parent. This year, in the days leading up to the mass shooting in Newtown, 12-year-old Demetri Phillips was shot and killed by a friend while playing with a gun in their shared home on Dec. 6. Two days later, Craig Allen Loughrey, 7, died in a gun store parking lot. His father’s gun went off inside the family truck and struck the boy, strapped into a booster seat, in the chest. The problem isn’t exactly new. In 1997, the Centers for Disease Control found that in the U.S. the rate of death among children 15 and under due to gunshot wounds was nearly 12 times higher than those in 15 other developed countries. Child deaths caused by guns have dropped since that time, along with other types of crime. But the number of children and teens killed in 2008 and 2009 in the U.S. alone could fill 229 classroom with 25 students, according to a report released by the Children’s Defense Fund this year. In 2009, of all the people 18 and under that died due to a firearm injury of any kind, 43 percent were black and 20 percent were Latino, making gun violence a disproportionately common event among teens of color, according to the Children's Defense Fund report. On Friday, National Rifle Association vice president Wayne LaPierre proposed a program that would put armed guards and perhaps other adults with guns in every school, saying “good guys” with firearms were the surest way to protect the nation’s children. Nichols, of the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, described the NRA’s proposal as preposterous. “I think it’s an absurd and dangerous idea,” Nichols said. “But as with so many of their proposals I think its real aim is to encourage the sale of more firearms. The biggest donors to the NRA are firearms manufacturers. Besides, arming and equipping all these people he wants to put in schools, having guns where kids see them daily is a tool to market weapons to the next generation.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/21/child-gun-deaths-newtown_n_2347920.html |
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| Sea Dog | Dec 9 2013, 09:55 AM Post #7 |
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Sooner or later, as with drunk driving and smoking, public perception will change. Remember when people bragged about how drunk they were when driving home and smoking was considered the cool thing to do? |
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| Neutral | Dec 9 2013, 10:01 AM Post #8 |
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| Banandangees | Dec 9 2013, 10:33 AM Post #9 |
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Be real careful driving back to Part Dover from the sunny south next spring Sea. 32,885 were killed and 2.4 million injured in car accidents in the US in 2010.... plus, there are people with guns out there. I wonder how many were killed and injured in Japan via car accidents. I would guess about the same ratio as with guns when compared to the US. |
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| colo_crawdad | Dec 9 2013, 10:49 AM Post #10 |
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It is porobably a great idea tat we have such ready access to handguns. Without that access, a guy named Zimmerman might not have been able to kill an unarmed teenager whom he had expressed a desire to kill in earlier recorded 911 calls..
Edited by colo_crawdad, Dec 9 2013, 10:53 AM.
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