helpatron56:

seriousblathering:

“According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 4,062 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.”

Tell me again how gun restrictions are a bad thing?

Because in most metropolitan cities where gangs are a problem (the major contributors of gun homicide statistics), usually 50-60% of gun murders are related to gang warfare. Criminals killing criminals. They can’t be prevented because the police doesn’t want more people getting shot trying to stop them, and they’re already dealing with drugs and trafficking women - they’re able to get guns illegally.

Another chunk of homicides are crimes of passion, which unfortunately are rarely stoppable and happen all over the world.

Another results of gun violence are justifiable homicides by the police and armed citizens.

Pass more gun restrictions (there’s already 20,000 gun laws on the books) if you want to *feel* safe. But nobody will be safer, and there won’t be less people dying.

Specially if there’s anything from 700,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses.

I’m pretty sure this person pulled all of these statistics directly from their ass.

1) The majority of gun deaths in America are NOT gang related. In 2010, out of over 31,000 firearm deaths in this country, 62% were suicides, 36% were homicides, and 2% were unintentional. (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012).

2) Over 80% of the suicides were committed using a gun.

3) Suicide rates are actually higher in rural areas than urban ones.

4) Your little add-on about “defensive gun uses” is so grossly off that it’s almost unbelievable. According to a recent study done by the Harvard Injury Control Center, a gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used to kill or injure in a domestic homicide, suicide, or unintentional shooting than to be used in self-defense!

Say what you will, but facts are undeniable. The United States, with its many guns and highly permissive gun laws, faces a far more serious problem of lethal firearm violence than any other high-income country in the world. The longer we sit around and do nothing, the worse it is going to get.

(Source: The New York Times)

The suspect said he was going on to Nairobi from Amsterdam and needed the gun “to protect himself from animals while in Kenya,”

A perfectly intelligent, law-abiding citizen.

Authorities searched Wednesday for a 45-year-old man they say is suspected of killing his wife and two young daughters in a home he owns near the rural Northern California town of Shingleton.

Delightful.

Just days after a five year old killed his two year old sister with a gun made for children, the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting pushed firearms into the hands of youth, including on-premises sale of weapons marketed explicitly to kids, an official NRA publication, and a “Youth Day” at the conference. […]

See kids? Evil villains really do exist!

Eric Holder has told Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback that a new state law attempting to block federal regulation of some guns is unconstitutional…Brownback bit back, claiming that “Kansans hold dear their right to bear arms and are protecting the state’s sovereignty.”

If you’re from Kansas…and I am…you should find this embarrassing…and I do.

More than embarrassed, this makes me angry. Say what you will about Kansas, or the Midwest in general, but I love my hometown. It was nothing like what most people imagine ‘Kansas’ to be.

Men like Sam Brownback, a small-minded, parochial redneck with absolutely NO vision or impetus to make a real difference, are what make states like Kansas look so out of touch, bigoted, and ultimately irrelevant.

There’s a group in Tennessee raffling off an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle—the same weapon used by Adam Lanza to mow down 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn.—in order to “resist Barack Obama, the federal government, and even a few in Tennessee’s state government, who are determined to destroy our 2nd Amendment rights!!”

This makes Tennessee look like a wasteland, full of impossibly moronic zealots. If you’re from Tennessee, this should make you angry…

“The [Alabama State] Senate passed legislation Tuesday declaring that “All federal acts, laws, orders, rules or regulations regarding firearms are a violation of the Second Amendment.” It also says federal laws in violation of the Second Amendment shall be considered null and void in Alabama. The vote was 24-6.”

If you’re from Alabama, you should find this embarrassing. If you don’t…well, that’s even more embarrassing.