Your point being? Killing people is whole point of guns.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 07/02/2013 12:02:24 AM
i know this topic has been exhaustively discussed here, but i thought this was something worth sharing as a means of putting something more concrete into the discussion.
Slate magazine has released an interactive map of all of the gun deaths in the US since the killings in Newtown. keep in mind this webpage is only linking homicides, i haven't seen any suicides in their map other than murder-suicides, but i also have not gone through all 1600+ links to test this theory. i find it interesting that since december 14th of last year, every state has had at least one gun related death except for north dakota. i guess the positive news to come out of this is that we are down from our usual average of 40-ish gun deaths per day in 2012, but the year is still fresh....
Slate magazine has released an interactive map of all of the gun deaths in the US since the killings in Newtown. keep in mind this webpage is only linking homicides, i haven't seen any suicides in their map other than murder-suicides, but i also have not gone through all 1600+ links to test this theory. i find it interesting that since december 14th of last year, every state has had at least one gun related death except for north dakota. i guess the positive news to come out of this is that we are down from our usual average of 40-ish gun deaths per day in 2012, but the year is still fresh....
The winter has been worse. Not as many people going outside, and therefore, not meeting as many other people.
And this is all pointless. The number of dead people from a particular method has absolutely zero significance. What is important is who they were and why they were killed. Most of the time, those would probably have happened without the guns anyway. The only significance of your post is to prove how easily people are impressed by numbers and pictures.
And by the way, if there are that many murders going on, we should start rolling back the gun "control" laws, so that law-abiding people have better chances to defend themselves.
Cannoli
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Deus Vult!
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1600 gun deaths and counting since Newtown massacre
- 06/02/2013 05:40:29 PM
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That is a tragic number but the laws they are proposing would have stopped very few of those deaths
- 06/02/2013 05:53:48 PM
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how many responsible owners are going to be selling out of the trunk of their car?
- 06/02/2013 06:02:43 PM
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You will never stop or reduce violence. Ever
- 06/02/2013 09:01:15 PM
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Perhaps, but we can still limit the damage done by controlling access to guns. *NM*
- 06/02/2013 10:38:06 PM
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There's a gigantic difference between the "stop" and the "reduce" you so casually equate. *NM*
- 06/02/2013 11:21:31 PM
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Is there? Without guns the rate of violence will fall heavily?
- 06/02/2013 11:35:27 PM
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Yes, there is.
- 06/02/2013 11:40:57 PM
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there are ways to reduce the violence but new guns laws are not one those ways
- 07/02/2013 04:29:01 AM
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best that we enforce the current laws then, as obama has directed in his executive orders
- 08/02/2013 05:59:22 PM
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violence, probably not as much as we would like. dead by gunshot? most assuredly so
- 06/02/2013 11:45:39 PM
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that is true but that is no excuse for feel good laws that do nothing but restrict rights
- 07/02/2013 04:24:34 AM
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I like how you say 'something more concrete' to describe 'nothing new'
- 06/02/2013 10:38:35 PM
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i guess in this case "more concrete" means "not just swept under the rug anymore"
- 06/02/2013 11:38:52 PM
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I don't believe it has ever been swept under the rug in our lifetimes
- 07/02/2013 12:40:55 AM
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we will have to continue to agree to disagree then
- 08/02/2013 06:06:38 PM
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This has more to do with resenting all the "...and another thing!" threads on the subject of late.
- 09/02/2013 12:18:27 AM
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Your point being? Killing people is whole point of guns.
- 07/02/2013 12:02:24 AM
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