12 Gun Stats that may help inform your opinion

@Ferise1 Again, you’re going for the personal insults because you know your argument is weak. It’s actually funny to see you folks get to that point, because it’s predictable.

And yet no mass shootings in those other countries ?

@Ferise1 Okay…😅

@Iwillwait In 2020, 45,000 people were killed with firearms, 24,000 were suicides. In 2020 also, 46,000 were killed in auto accidents with 4.5 million requiring medical care. 32,000 died from falls, 250,000 died from malpractice or medical mistakes. and 100,000 died from drug overdoses.

@Iwillwait Probably better than the number than eaten by sharks, but what's the point in comparing? Automobile deaths have nothing to do with firearm deaths. Nice try at deflecting the subject, though.

@ChipmunkErnie I wasn't deflecting anything. I asked a question. How do Gun Death stats compare to Automobiles? It's interesting for the point of argument sake or comparisons. Kinda like Cigarettes or Alcohol, which have destroyed so many families and caused more death than Cancer. (Those are all tolerated purely for Tax $ profit) I am not trying to evade anything Chip, I don't much care for guns, but I do care for our Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights. I believe the argument for a type of weapon to be banned or scrutinized such as a rifle is only opening up a doorway to a much different approach. Like.... Storming a Civilian's home and confiscating not just said fire arm, but all fire arms due to any reason written in whatever Bill they'll try and pass regarding the issue. There's always back-end padding of Bill that most will not read before Voting and "Viola!" , your Rights as you had them had all been taken away under the guise of what was to a simple legislation to control a type of Rifle under the pretense it would stop Mass Shootings. (that is just simply not factually true)

I appreciate your input and value you as a Member of this site. I was not trying to ensue a riot or huge debate, but only asked "What about XY&Z?"(Automobile Deaths) because the pretense was set forth that Gun Deaths were the leading cause if death in the US.

@Theyitis Your society is what it is due to the ability of protection and military force.

@Iwillwait You want to elaborate on that? I’m not getting your point.

@Theyitis help me sleep at night? Every damn one of them. Feed my family? Every damn one of them. Defend another human being from serious injury or death? 2 of them. Guns are not meant for evil. They are only used for evil by evil people.

@bijouxbroussard they certainly don’t act like it anyway - so depressing.

@Jill1990 They don't want it to happen, but they don't want to or aren't willing to pay the price of doing something about it.

@Ryannnnnn exactly - they make excuses and blame it on all kinds of things.

@Ryannnnnn This all so sounds good, but it's not real, the Police did not enter the building. The child with a weapon, make up what ever weapon you want, would be able to reload, and continue. Had it been a shot gun, two to three people would most likely be dead from every shell spent.

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@jerMIguy 😎

@Sidewinder So let's keep guns out of the hands of schmucks.

@OggggO Agreed.

@Sidewinder Agreed.

@Dlrannie well if thats so why dont you worry about your country and not my country.i bet at one time my country came to your country and protected your butt

@beaglehunter I’m merely commenting in regard to a question raised on the site - if you don’t like me having opinions then perhaps you should leave the site or block me.

@Dlrannie i do not intend to block you .you have a right to your opinions as do i.hear i have every right to own as many guns as i want.i have taken a safe hunters course and i hunt and EAT what i shoot i have a hand gun permit for all leagel reasons.was fingerprinted and a f.b.i. record check to get that.i have all but 1 locked up in a gun safe the 1 being on my person. i have never pointed it at anybody nor have i ever waisted any game i have shot and yes i am a voteing member of the N.R.A. and am proud of my country.the police can not be every place at the right time as we know and when they are some times they make a wrong dicison as we just saw in Texas.i am not trying to convince you to change your mind and you sure wont change mine.The bad part about this conversation is people blame the gun when they should blame the person and in this case also the police

@OggggO More than are being reported. Canada hides its stats.

@hippyjoe1955 Awfully convenient for you, huh?

@OggggO Not convenient simple truth. There are shootings on a daily basis. You never hear about them on the news.

@beaglehunter Texas is a heavily armed state. You can’t depend on a well armed populace either it appears.

@JonLosAngeles66 i dont know about where you got that info.if you were to read the n.r.a. mag.you would see newspaper reports of crime reports but you would call that b.s. even though it tells the name and town of the paper and the police force

@beaglehunter I saw a review of those. They include people hearing a noise and grabbing their gun and the noise goes away. Artificially inflated numbers. It’s like when the dog thinks he saved the family by barking at the mailman.

@Changeisgonnacome Yes, by buying a gun.

@SinlessOnslaught the risks to others and yourself-. Caused by buying a gun- you act like they
Aren't there.

@Changeisgonnacome What risks?

@faithfulhusband Yeah probably... I'm buying one.

@faithfulhusband sounds like they're highly misogynistic.

@faithfulhusband If they get it at gunpoint it’s called [b]rape[/b].
But whatever floats your boat. 🙄

@JonLosAngeles66 hit the system with cold hard truth will make it boil faster so good work keep em coming!

@exchrist whatever-. Silence is golden-. Solutions are noisy and messy. Final solutions are even worse. Problems must be eternal for the quiet.

@JonLosAngeles66 Guns are not allowed in schools, so no law abiding citizen could have done anything in that school. However it was packed full of police who were ordered to do nothing while babies were being slaughtered. Apparently even they couldnt stop it.

@Theyitis While the police sat on their butts and did nothing?

@TexChik Wait, I thought Republicans were the law and order party. You going to just throw the cops under the bus here?

@Theyitis The facts threw the cops under the bus.

@ProfessorPlum77 so many deflections, but still don't know why you are out of touch with current events and trying to pretend that certain realities have not happened. But please, keep deflecting, bonus points if it is racist or xenophobic.

@SW-User OK, will do. 🙂

@SW-User With all these deflections, it's a good thing I chose to wear my heavy-duty flak jacket, today.

@windinhishair because of we the people but they may try to change that too.call slow joe maybe that guy he tried to shake hands with can help

@beaglehunter You're not making any sense again.

@Changeisgonnacome they could elect someone else, but they don't. If Greens had a majority in the US, you wouldn't even have to make such statements.

So since [i]voters[/i] don't elect the Greens, now what? What is your actual helpful suggestion?

And I thought only right wingers obsessed over Nancy.

@SW-User They may be primitive, but at least they're non-polluting.

@SW-User SICK are you in u.s.s.r

@beaglehunter I mean if you're going back in time then meeting someone who can see the future is just as plausable at that point.

@beaglehunter Have you ever loaded a musket beaglefucker? How many shots per second were you able to achieve? Modern guns did not exist when the constitution was written. They are a completely different weapon that just happens to have the same name.
The constitution doesn't even specify guns either. It's just the hill repedocans choose to die on.

@canusernamebemyusername i have loaded a muzzle loader many times and have shot a few deer with it yes.you can argue your point as long as you want that is your right as is mine. freedom of speach is a great thing and it would make you look a lot better to change some of your language.how ever if you want to talk like that i could return the same by telling you whos mother i did that to but i have a bit more class.

@redredred It is too much trouble to read an article when CNN tells me everything I need to know.

@redredred Hey, maybe read your own damn source:

[quote]Uvalde was a mass school shooting; the 26 previous tragedies at schools this year were not.

The difference is significant. Education Week, which tracks all school shootings, defines them as incidents in which a person other than the suspect suffers a bullet wound on school property. Many of the 26 previous shootings involved disputes between students in parking lots, or after athletic events, and all of them resulted in one or zero deaths.[/quote]

There have in fact been 27 school shootings this year.

@redredred [c=800000]That sounds more accurate. If there were as many as they are claiming, the politicians would have the National Guard on duty at every school in America. [/c]

@RedBaron just reminding people of some facts. Not opinions. You can draw your own opinions.

@JonLosAngeles66 Opinions don't matter because opinions won't stop the mass shootings that produce your numbers. Neither will gun laws. The scary thing is that nothing can be done to stop them.

@beaglehunter I posted a link at the bottom.

@RogueLoner definitely our responsibility- To disarm our cops.

@Changeisgonnacome disarm the ones in texas as they dont seam to want to use them when they should

@pdockal you cant convince the gun haters that its not the gun its the moron that probably should have had a mental exam before buying it.i have ownd guns for more years than i want to admit to diferant cal. and gauges and actions and have yet to see one aim and fire by itself.all these people that are blaming guns please dont keep it a secret i want to get one that will do it

@MarmeeMarch So, the news will consist of "Something happened to someone at someplace but it's a secret." "Our next story is that something happened to lots of people at someplace but it can't be discussed."

@MarmeeMarch so you're saying we should not try to do anything. Okay.