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Re: America is 'sick in the head with guns'

By: weco in FFFT | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 20 May 12 6:01 AM | 56 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Food For Further Thought 		Msg. 42265 of 65535
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I get busy, forget to chase the guy down on Current.. Growing up on the ranch, Dad, plus 2 older brothers, guns were always around, used for hunting, plinking, I still have a few, clunkers, ones my elder brother didn't trade off on bigger, better... Many tales of his shenanigans with various agencies.. His kids are just as invested, supplied.. How many jobs at a major company where there were show & tell days, everyone brought in the latest cannon?.. Garages with multiple gun safes are pretty common, lots of reloaders, lots of trading, shuffling... Old friends were gunsmiths for years and years... Annual hunts were an excuse to go play in Idaho, Nevada... Shotgun News was always on the job... Several fellow employees held dealer licenses for many year until the paper became a headache.... How many cases of 7.65 ammo can fit into a barn, garage... A lot of it was really cheap at the time..

Guns won't ever go away, but they need to get off it being a sacred game, do some real safety training, controls... a lot aren't registered, never will be... I'll likely urn mine over at the next buyback, no need for 'em... Wall hangers, really... Cenk hit the mark, how many others have the guts to do that?


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Re: America is 'sick in the head with guns'
By: clo in FFFT
Sun, 20 May 12 4:13 AM 		Msg. 42261 of 65535

Thanks for posting this weco, I watched the show & the stats were stunning & worth repeating.

Citing the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies's Small Arms Survey, Uyger pointed out that the United States is the most heavily armed nation in the world, with 90 guns per 100 people. Yemen is in second place, but only has 60 guns per 100 people. David Hemenway, director of the Harvard University Injury Control Research Center, authored a paper in 2011 called "Risks and Benefits of Guns in the Home," which stated that children in the U.S. are 11 times more likely to die in a gun-related accident than children in other developed nations.

The Centers for Disease Control's statistics for gun fatalities in 2009 include 11,493 homicides, 18,735 suicides and 554 accidental deaths, a combined 31,347 gun deaths for the year. 

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