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Days Since Last Shooting II

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geezer said:
That’s debatable. The gun nuts I know that do the most shooting are wealthy people. A single box of 30-06 ammo lasts me 2 years. Although when I picture Leroy M. Redneck out on the weekend with his AR, his only larger expenses than ammo are probably beer and gas. So it’s debatable.
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I think that concealed carry reciprocity is going to be part of the bill.
 
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I saw a good stat on Twitter the other day: murder rate per 1,000 guns. Given the large amount of guns we own we were way down the list.
 
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Drew S. said:
I saw a good stat on Twitter the other day: murder rate per 1,000 guns. Given the large amount of guns we own we were way down the list.
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What makes that a good stat? I bet given the large amount of McDonalds we have, we are way down on the list of heart attacks per McDonalds too. But I'm not sure why that would be a good statistic.
 
5mn_Major said:
Misleading. That's because at 8 guns per gun owning house hold the US tops the world in gun ownership. In fact just 19% of Americans own half the guns...and 3% own the other half.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...half-of-americas-guns/?utm_term=.d06006eea16f
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I know. That was the point of my post if you read the second sentence I wrote. The graph made it look like the US was a lot better than other countries when it comes to gun violence, but it was obviously due to the fact we own significantly more guns than most everyone else.
 
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Handyman said:
Well gee...I think that map speaks volumes!
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Yeah, it says that when you put people in close proximity to others, they'll kill each other more often than if they have space to be by themselves*. Except in New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada, then they'll just kill each other for the heck of it.



*not the actual causation
 
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