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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (245278)8/7/2005 3:47:32 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1579853
 
Number of
Deaths Population Crude
Rate Age-Adjusted
Rate**
12,129 287,974,001 4.21 4.16

Check it yourself - webappa.cdc.gov

Select - Homicide and Legal intervention
Cause - Firearm

Sorry, dude, but if I wanted to play Jeopardy, I'd watch the show.

Here's the facts directly from the US Dept of Justice:

According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) in 2003, 449,150 victims of violent crimes stated that they faced an offender with a firearm.

Incidents involving a firearm represented 7% of the 4.9 million violent crimes of rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault.

The FBI's Crime in the United States estimated that 67% of the 16,503 murders in 2003 were committed with firearms.

For more information about weapons used in homicide see the Weapons Section of Homicide Trends in the United States and Homicide Trends and Characteristics in Data Online.

ojp.usdoj.gov

As with most gunowners, you've begun to believe all the spin coming out of the NRA and other gun advocacy groups. Like I said earlier, its all nonsense. Its patently obvious if one looks at the crime rates in Europe vs the US. But you don't want to know the truth so you all mask the truth in outrageous hyperbole and the average citizen buys into it because you've made it sound all so reasonable.

Guns kill and strong gun control laws work. Those are the facts!

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