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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

UPDATED: Celebrating Gun Appreciation Day

32 dead, 63 wounded
By Will Collette

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Last Saturday, gun owners across the United States celebrated Gun Appreciation Day, their own macabre answer to rising public demands for action to curb gun violence.

At least five people were shot at actual “Gun Appreciation Day” events – those NRA folks sure know how to party. David Waldman decided to look a little deeper at what else took place on January 19th to highlight how much we Americans love guns and shooting people.

A simple Google search, which he posted on the Daily Kos, provided the following results (and aren’t you just proud to see Providence top the list) of gun “incidents” that occurred on January 19, 2013:




Posted by Will Collette at 9:00 AM
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3 comments:

  1. Perhaps the social net warrants acceptability in lieu of combat pay in combat America.Our love of fire arms exceeds our desire for healthcare and longevity Is modern life style so boring that we live in a virtual realities as colonialist and cowboy avatars? If so, our educational,moral and ethics systems has failed each and everyone of us when we tolerate this monstrous absurdity.

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  2. In 2010/11, 32,885 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the United States—

    An estimated 2.24 million people were injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes.

    The Consumer Product Safety Commission says there are 200,000 people are injured each year by using lawn mowers, 16,000 of those are children and as Will has mentioned many times, lawn mowing is not legal in our little enclave.

    "Gun-related violence is most common in poor urban areas and frequently associated with gang violence, often involving male juveniles or young adult males."

    Two-thirds of all gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides. Of the 30,470 firearm-related deaths in the United States in 2010, 19,392 (63.6%) were suicide deaths, and 11,078 (36.4%) homicide deaths.

    The relationship to gun laws and gun deaths is relatively nonexistent.. The gun homicide rate in Louisiana is by far the highest in the US. It's gun laws are virtually non existent.

    Maryland is #2 in the US and CA is number 4. Both states are heavy with firearm laws. I think you know what should be obvious. Those states on the bottom (least) gun control regulations don't prove much but tend to have less gun laws.

    Wouldn't it make more sense or at least be more practical to address Global warming or even inner city poverty? Obamacare?

    Davespop

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  3. Davespop - again with the right-wing cliches.

    Of course it's true that you can get killed or maimed by cars, lawnmowers, falling Coke machines, trains, planes, scissors, chainsaws, knives, and on and on.

    But all of these devices were made for purposes other than killing. The purpose of an assault rifle or a Saturday Night Special is to kill. No one commutes to work in an AK-47. No one mixes a salad with a .45 with a high-capacity clip.

    This is a complicated subject that has no single or simple or quick answer. You do not help by throwing in cliches for misdirection.

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