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Originally Posted by Some Guy
I still subscribe to the notion that guns don't kill people, people kill people. As Jesse Ventura said, "I have a safe full of guns at home and none of them are going off right now." The problem is our fucked-up society. Shitty parents who don't know how to raise a kid properly. People who should have never had a kid in the first place.
Most people get their views on gun control from the media and that's their biggest mistake, seeing how the media never tells the whole story. For example, did you know more people were killed last year by hammers than by guns? Maybe we should implement a hammer control act.
We don't need more gun control; we need a better mental health system. That, and more birth control. Heh.
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Look at this guy, tries to repeat moronic right wing talking points and can't even get that right.
More people were not killed last year by hammers than guns, not even close.
There is a meme sweeping the right wing blogosphere and mainstream media right now that cherry picks figures from FBI crime stats for 2011. Breitbart's website has an article up that reinforces morons preconceived NRA beliefs that guns are by far safer than common household tools like hammers. There is only one problem, the article intentionally takes one specific weapon, rifles, and dishonestly compares it to dozens of weapons; the FBI stats for blunt objects do not differentiate between hammers, clubs, tire irons, nunchuks, bricks, crowbars, baseball bats, beer bottles, billy clubs, poles, cinderblocks, irons, and dozens of other weapons that are used to bludgeon people or bash their brains out. It also conveniently leaves out every other type of gun murder.
A true comparison shows guns are responsible for more deaths than all other weapons combined.
Here is the Breitbart article
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...an-With-Rifles
Here are the actual FBI stats
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr...-data-table-11
Here are the facts; In America in 2011, 8583 people were murdered by one type of weapon, guns (an additional 18,000 + committed suicide with firearms). Less than half that amount, 4,081 were killed by every other weapon known to man including knives, blunt objects, poison, fire, pushing out a window, cars, hands, explosions, drowning, narcotics, strangulation, asphyxiation and the mysterious "other" category.
The truth is, the probability of being murdered by a gun in America is double that of being killed by any other weapon or method available to humankind...combined.