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To: simplicity who wrote (695726)	1/27/2013 8:34:17 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579697

The reasons the accidental gun show shootings were covered so gleefully by the mainstream media are (1) they furthered the media's anti-gun agenda, and (2) they were so unprecedented. Gleeful? Hardly. I think most people, including the media, found it pathetic and disconcerting You would be more safe at your average American gun show than you are walking down any street for an hour in inner-city Chicago. Really? Five people wounded in one weekend in just three gun shows: edition.cnn.com Nope, I am not sure one is safer in a gun show. Sorry. Your 'statistics' regarding gun violence are (purposefully?) skewed. Rather than referencing some vague generalities regarding 'how it's been for the last 40 years' how about addressing a concrete example of how well gun control works. Look up (if you don't already know) the statistics regarding the strength of the gun control laws in Chicago, and the number of per capita gun murders there in any given recent year -- then compare those statistics with the number of per capita murders (even injuries) at all American gun shows in any given year, or the per capita gun murders in any city that doesn't have anti-gun laws on the books -- and then get back to me. Purposely skewed? Its the reality. We have 300 million guns in this country. There is hardly the need to skew the stats. Numbers don't lie. People who move them from one column to another, or use them selectively, do. You and your colleagues are out of touch. Its why you keep losing elections.