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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth

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To: American Spirit who wrote (114805)	2/18/2008 11:18:31 AM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Read Replies (1) of 173976

I figure more Americans have been killed by guns, many more, since 1950 than all Americans who died in all the wars we have fought since 1776. In years of the late 1980's early 1990's US gun deaths easily exceeded 35,000 a year; from murder, accidents, homicides and suicides. _Homocide is slightly different than murder but the person is still dead.- One could argue that some of the people would have died from other means , but guns provide instant opportunity so the death levels would have been quite a bit less. Gun deaths have gone down in this decade, in large part due to better medical services, and also due to declines in drug related shootings. Actually we also have a severe problem with prescription abuse, this is replacing gun deaths as the biggest cause of accidental death; however, this does not excuse the horrible toll of guns. When compared to any industrial country we are so far off the charts negatively , it is totally embarrassing. How can we let the NRA dictate the gun agenda. Most people, including me, would just want to get rid of automatics and killer bullets and have tighter licensing laws.

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