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90-percent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 08:46 AM Original message |
Interesting facts that need confirmation |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
1. For one thing, the Japanese don't build subsidized highways |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
2. I've been to HIroshima |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 09:08 AM Response to Original message |
3. That works out to 39,461 deaths by firearm per year over that time period. |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 11:54 AM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Another study reports a MUCH higher rate |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-14-10 04:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Looks like that study was done around 1997. The statistics I cited were from 2000 through 2006. |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-14-10 04:42 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I agree with you |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
4. Or corporate policy? |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 09:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Without reaping a shitstorm from US car boosters... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:17 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Government policy encouraged outsourcing |
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divvy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
6. Guns Kill. That is what they are for. |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
7. If they need confirmation they are NOT facts. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
9. Detroit's ruin is due to "government policy"? |
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starroute (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
10. There were 416,800 US military deaths in World War II |
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90-percent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 11:03 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. thank you for your response |
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starroute (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 11:24 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. That 64,000 figure does seem unlikely |
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90-percent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Yes |
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90-percent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 01:39 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. more info |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
16. Oh my god |
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