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Here are some fun statistics for us to 'enjoy'.
Gun crime statistics by US state
Seeded on Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:34 PM EST
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The UK has six hundred murders a year. The USA has over 9,000. That's 9,000 people, folks, many of whom were shot.
But let's continue to espouse the NRA mantra that 'guns don't kill people, people kill people'.
Yeah, right.
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#1 - Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:36 PM ESTThe other thing that that map makes me wonder is "What the hell is Alabama's problem?"
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There was a shooting in my neighborhood last night. We haven't had a shooting in years and then the streak was broken.
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#2 - Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:01 PM ESTTM2,
I was just browsing a similar examination of gun violence statistics. (Like minds...smile.)
Take a glance at Arizona's scorecard according to The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and then take a glimpse of where Arizona falls in gun violence ranking, 4.54 per 100k homicides, a 72.4 percentile of deaths from gun violence.
I do take heart with Speaker Boehner's committment to a Resolution tomorrow. We can only hope that the voices of Bloomberg's coalition of mayors will find an ear, or two, in the 112th Congress, to listen to their cause. In my mind, it is more than just about legal gun ownership, review of gun laws, and illegal gun trafficking.
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#3 - Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:06 PM ESTHere are some more fun numbers, and with awesome pictures to boot:
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#4 - Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:09 PM ESTFlorida isn't available on the map? I'm not seeing it there....
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#5 - Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:30 PM ESTGood question. And WA is covered up by that big honkin icon that serves no purpose. Oh well.
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Shootings are a daily occurrence in the Orlando metro, it seems, so maybe the bullets are flying faster than they can count?
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Well you can look on the bright side, gun deaths have been going down in the us for years.
Unlike some countries...
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#6 - Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:50 PM EST"Policy makers have targeted the legitimate sporting and farming communities with ever-tighter laws but the research clearly demonstrates that it is illegal guns which are the real threat to public safety."
That's inconvenient. I'd be willing to bet they had a second amendment to...lol
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