Well? How many?
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FACT:In 2005 (the most recent year for which data is available), there were 30,694 gun deaths in the U.S:
12,352 homicides (40% of all U.S gun deaths),
17,002 suicides (55% of all U.S gun deaths),
789 unintentional shootings, 330 from legal intervention and 221 from undetermined intent (5% of all U.S gun deaths combined).
-Numbers obtained from CDC National Center for Health Statistics mortality report online, 2008.
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How many car accidents per year is too many?Originally Posted by Saboteur
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Not the same, cars are mostly a necessity. Guns are a luxury.
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So change it to alcohol, which is far more of a luxury than guns. How many deaths from drunk driving/cirrhosis/alcoholism is too many?
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Tobacco 400,000
Diet/Activity 300,000
Alcohol 100,000
Estimated Behavioral Causes of Death
CAUSES OF DEATH
Tobacco, McDonalds, and Alcohol, That is it. Mandatory exercise will now be held in front of the great leaders statue
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What percentage of this was criminal on criminal?
HOw many of these shootings involved victims without a felonious past.
If the savages wan to kill each other who cares.
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This new rhetoric to tone down the rhetoric is simply empty rhetoric.
A car as well as a gun is a tool.
Guns are NOT a luxury... this is just dumb.
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This new rhetoric to tone down the rhetoric is simply empty rhetoric.
Not quite, guns are a right, cars are a privilege.
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This new rhetoric to tone down the rhetoric is simply empty rhetoric.
Fair play, but ask yourself this question then.
But let's not be coy here, what's the sole purpose of any gun?
Do cars play such a roll? Alcohol? Tobacco?
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