94,388 people have been shot in the US this year...

[MinM]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249185/Connecticut-school-shooting-Did-paranoid-gun-crazed-mother-trigger-Adam-Lanzas-school-killing-spree-Friends-say-believed-world-edge-collapse.html

[lunasun]

1. 2 in Japan !!

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/a-land-without-guns-how-japan-has-virtually-eliminated-shooting-deaths/260189/

[Bonobo]

4. Thank you...

And one of the most popular things for the boys here to play with are these.



They look absolutely real and the kids point them at you and no one is ever afraid. Hell, they could take them to a city and no one would assume they are anything but toys because no one has guns except the police.

At first it freaked me out. As an American, I learned to abhor them -until I realized it is, for them, like playing with toy space guns. That's how far guns are removed from life here.

[valerief]

2. Why don't we hear the 24/7 "news" bobbleheads spouting these statistics non-stop?

Cuz the weapons lobby wouldn't like it.

[doc03]

3. The NRA thinks we don't have enough of them. If only the kids

were armed in Newtown!

[Zorra]

5. Wow. That's really awful. Very powerful statistics.

If I needed to be any more persuaded, that would do it.

[texasmomof3]

6. 2.2 million people were injured in car accidents last year. Let's get rid of the cars too! n/t

[cynatnite]

7. Is 61 massacres since 1982 not enough for you, TEXAS MOM OF 3?

We do regulate cars and cars do get recalled on a regular basis to fix potential problems that could be deadly.

Why not regulate guns the way we regulate cars? You have have a license to own one. You have to carry insurance for it. You have register it every year. It has to have a title just like a car.

If you are going to equate cars with guns...let's treat them exactly the same.

[neverforget]

8. Go away. Seriously massive logic fail there.