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TX: America needs fewer guns, not more shooters
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Mark A. Taff
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Tragedies like this underscore the innate danger of all 265 million guns in circulation. America is comparable to other nations when it comes to mental illness rates and crime rates, but we lead the world in several deeply troubling categories: We have more guns in the U.S. than adults. We use our many guns to kill each other at a rate that’s 25 times higher than people in any other high-income country in the world. And our gun-related suicide rate is eight times higher than in other high-income nations.
Furthermore, our guns are rarely used for self-defense. |
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MarkHamTownsend
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"Furthermore, our guns are rarely used for self-defense."
WRONG!
Somewhere between 500,000 to 1,000,000 times EACH YEAR, honest law-abiding Americans use a firearm in self-defense, the majority of the time firing no shots.
And THAT'S not the only lie .... every time I read about how many times more often we use guns to murder (25X in this article) I KNOW those statistics have been cherry-picked.
Lying liars lie....all the time, every day of the week, and twice on Sundays. |
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