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It was stated that gang violence and homicides are excluded else the US would have like 100-150 k deaths per year through gun violence alone.
Btw. Im actually for having guns but even more for tight enough gun controls that no wrong people get it. Also i believe strongly that there is no need to have "war making" weapons legal. (Semi to full automatic weapons)
Go hunting and on shooting tournaments all you want i just dont want to see ppl with g36 or uzis running around on the street thanks.
Stated by whom? I would love to see you back up that bullshit number. Either you aren't bothering to look very hard or you don't have a clue how statistics work and are just repeating what some gun control freak said. I have produced statistics to back up my arguments, now you give it a try, but I know you won't because you can't, because those numbers are a fabrication.
The right to bear arms is NOT about hunting and target shooting, it is about having the people be armed so that the government can be prevented from turning completely tyrannical, and preserving the individual's right to self defense. All the gang violence in the world can't match the death and suffering created by an unchecked tyrannical government. It would be great if we could keep the "wrong" people from getting guns, but that is just a fantasy like the tooth fairy, and indulging that fantasy will cost MORE LIVES. Just because it is a positive concept does not mean it is viable to be implemented in REALITY. There are so many holes in your logic it is not even funny, but that is a common theme with gun control freaks who are motivated wholly by emotions and just skip over the inconvenient logic part required to actually attain those goals.
1. Collect underpants
2. ? ? ?
3. Profit
You cry and cry about #3 but never have a viable plan for #2.
The figure is wrong because that is actually not a yearly figure.
Its for a decade. The yearly death tolls through gun violence in the US is 10-15+ k.
So actually all your arguments boil down to a possible tyrannical government that wants to put people in gulags?
Is it 2016 yet?
If you are scared for that reason and want to be armed with heavy weapons then i can only tell you that the us political system and society is broken.
So lets break this down.
1. You admit to spreading false information about gun violence.
2. You still haven't provided any sources.
3. You still haven't explained how we get to your utopian ideal of keeping the guns away from the "wrong" people.
4. You cast tyrannical governments as a thing of the past while simultaneously calling the US political system "broken".
The fact is you are misinformed about the facts, and the only reason you are even correcting yourself is because I am calling you out on it. Either you are ignorant or purposefully disingenuous. In either case you don't have a right to open your mouth about subjects you are not informed about as if you are. This demonstrates to me your emotions dictate your logic and not the other way around. You have a bias and try to arrange your facts around it, but then skip over the part where you actually study the facts.
As far as governmental tyranny being a thing of the past, frankly that is just an idiotic concept held by future victims of genocide. The ONLY thing that prevents that past reality from becoming a future reality is the vigilance and preparedness of the worlds populations to confront it. Pretending it is not an issue is exactly how every single act of mass genocide begins, by lulling the population into a false sense of security by telling them that they are just so advanced and civilized that the violence of the past is behind them, never to return. Human beings are still just animals, only some happened to be more domesticated than others. Forget this at your own peril. This fact has no nationality, it is a HUMAN problem.
"Between 1993 and 2000, the gun homicide rate dropped by nearly half, from 7.0 homicides to 3.8 homicides per 100,000 people. Since then, the gun homicide rate has remained relatively flat. From 2009 to 2014, the most recent year data are available, the number of gun homicides has hovered around 11,000 and 12,000 per year."
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/21/gun-homicides-steady-after-decline-in-90s-suicide-rate-edges-up/So the actual annual rate of homicides in the USA is between 11,000 and 12,000 and has been falling for many years as gun ownership rates also climb. If the prevalence of guns is responsible for these homicide rates would it not be growing not falling? You, as many others have fallen victim to this disingenuous media circus portraying gun violence as a growing problem rather than a shrinking problem without ever even bothering to check for yourself. Once again this number still includes gang related shootings, but you feel that terrorist relating shootings should some how not be included in the European gun homicide rates. This is just classic cherry picking.