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We were 12th overall in national gun deaths, but the ironic thing is that the other 11 have oppressive gun control legislation. We were behind just to name a few, Mexico, Brazil, and South Africa, all of which have some of the most draconian gun law on the globe. That was total criminal, defensive, and accidental and most of which in the U.S. indeed were suicides.
As well if we took out criminal on criminal violence and put into it's own catagory those numbers would change dramatically. Plus it's interesting that anti-gunners only want to include "gun deaths" when comparing against international statistics, especially when overall murder rates are not favorable to many heavy ban countries.
I think we all understand people like Catawba want to restrict guns because of the politics of honest gun owners.
the dems hate the fact that every real pro gun group generally supports conservative politicians and while that might mean some dems, its mainly republicans. So the dems figure if they can kill off or diminish legal gun ownership, they will drain the power of the pro gun groups