Gun Control & RKBA

Harmony Blue

(3,978 posts) Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:37 PM Dec 2012

Do we have a gun crisis? [View all]

Gun related murders are down, but gun shooting sprees are up. Normally, you would think there would be a correlative decrease, but this very unusual.

While politicians argue over the manufactured Fiscal cliff crisis (notice that no one is talking about this anymore) we have a real gun crisis in the United States. If estimates are correct that there are 300+ million guns floating around what are the practical solutions to enforcing current regulations on the books or do we need more? Do we need to educate the populace more before they are allowed to own a weapon?

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Do we have a gun crisis? [View all] Harmony Blue Dec 2012 OP

we have a social crisis gejohnston Dec 2012 #1

Best reply so far. Thanks. (n/t) spin Dec 2012 #9

Yes, we have a gun crisis. DanTex Dec 2012 #2

Gun assaults are *not* up- check out the stats on aggravated assaults in the US. friendly_iconoclast Dec 2012 #3

LOL. You do realize not all aggravated assaults involve guns, right? DanTex Dec 2012 #4

when did they go up? gejohnston Dec 2012 #6

Over the last decade... DanTex Dec 2012 #7

Source? krispos42 Dec 2012 #8

That's because it isn't. Clames Dec 2012 #10

Data from the CDC. DanTex Dec 2012 #11

Okay, thanks n/t krispos42 Dec 2012 #13

Good post Tumbulu Dec 2012 #5

No. We are in an era of the CelebroPunk which Eleanors38 Dec 2012 #12