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In reply to the discussion: Just remember ~ The pen is mightier ... [View all]geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)15. Since we are engaged in posting propaganda,
Dan Gross, head of the Brady Campaign used the number of daily gun murders as proof that "gun violence rates are not" going down. But the rate of gun murder is at its lowest point since at least 1981: 3.6 per 100,000 people in 2010. The high point was 7 in 1993. However, non-fatal gun injuries from assaults increased last year for the third straight year, and that rate is the highest since 2008.
Federal data also show violent crimes committed with guns including murders, aggravated assaults and robberies have declined for three straight years.
Rep. Donna Edwards said that "since Columbine, there have been 181 of these school shootings." Thats an inflated figure. She used a list of "major school shootings" supplied by the Brady Campaign that included incidents that were neither shootings nor at schools. By our count, the list shows 130 school shootings since Columbine that resulted in at least one student or school official being killed or injured still unacceptably high, but about a quarter fewer than claimed.
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Of course you ignore the reality that guns CAN in fact be used for self defense.
eqfan592
Dec 2013
#9
Given that it references a nation that hasn't existed in over 20 years, I'd say it's a bit older. nt
eqfan592
Dec 2013
#19
Googling the image, it seems that HCI/Brady started making annual (?) versions of
petronius
Dec 2013
#29
Hell, looking at those numbers, there doesn't even appear to be a correlation between...
eqfan592
Dec 2013
#18
I know that I can do that. However I don't feel that I require that much firepower.
In_The_Wind
Dec 2013
#56