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2016 Postmortem

DCBob

(24,689 posts)

1. you need to include the correction on the 100,000 deaths..

Reply to sellitman (Original post)

Sun Jul 22, 2012, 02:36 PM

Jul 2012

its not "100,000 Americans that die every year due to domestic gun violence"

corrected:

"despite the 10,000 Americans that die every year due to domestic gun violence"

or

"despite the 100,000 Americans that are shot or killed every year due to domestic gun violence"

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Jason Alexander's Rightous Rant on Gun laws. [View all] sellitman Jul 2012 OP

you need to include the correction on the 100,000 deaths.. DCBob Jul 2012 #1

wow - is that domestic gun violence stat real? That is a pretty sad commentary. DrDan Jul 2012 #2

I also made a bit of mistake.. here's the exact statistic from the Brady campaign. DCBob Jul 2012 #3

Effective plasmicmike Jul 2012 #8

NRA, Faux and other RW media have done a great job of demonizing any attempts of sanity. DCBob Jul 2012 #12

Sadly, when the government decides to spy on Americans w/o warrants, rhett o rick Jul 2012 #4

For that matter... Fredjust Jul 2012 #5

you'd throw away tons of (liberal) votes with the line about hunters. dionysus Jul 2012 #6

You are correct sellitman Jul 2012 #7

My deer-hunting, McGovern-voting father would disagree with you. Arkana Jul 2012 #10

GEORGE IS GETTIN' UPSET! Arkana Jul 2012 #9

Why single out assault rifles? plasmicmike Jul 2012 #11