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Old 02-22-2008, 10:35 PM  
Darkland
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I find it incredible to see so many retarded people spouting off about gun control and the damage to a society who STILL has the right to bear them. I suppose it comes mostly from the uneducated or the populace of countries that DON'T have the right to bear arms. Let me show you a few things:

I couldn't find a recent statistical sheet but this one from 2001 will do...

"In the U.S. for 2001, there were 29,573 deaths from firearms, distributed as follows by mode of death: Suicide 16,869; Homicide 11,348; Accident 802; Legal Intervention 323; Undetermined 231"

While deaths from firearms made the top 10 leading causes of death, it came in dead last, there are a few myths to disspell.

Major Cardiovasular Diseases - 936,923
Malignant Neoplasms - 553,091
Chronic Lower Resperitory Dis. - 122,009
Diabetes Mellitus - 69,301
Influenza and Pneumonia - 65,313
Alzheimers - 49,558
Motor Vehicle Accidents - 43,354
Renal Failure - 36,471
Septicemia - 31,224
Firearms - 29,573

For starters most of those numbers attributed to homicide with a firearm aren't carried out with a legally purchased firearm. They are purchased off the street or stolen.

This does not mean that homicides can't be committed by a person who legally bought the firearm because it does happen but those numbers are no where near as high as the crimes committed with illegal firearms.

US citizens CAN NOT buy fully automatic weapons.

ALL crimes committed with these types of weapons CAN NOT be attributed to an out of control gun culture. PERIOD.

Whether you like it or not, if a criminal wants a weapon they WILL get one and it WILL NOT be through legal means. PERIOD.

Look at some of your own countries where there is little or no legal means for owning a firearm. There are STILL crimes committed with firearms. Is THAT due to an out of control gun culture? No. It's not. Its due to people with criminal intent NOT lack of gun control.
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