We Are More Afraid Than Ever of Gun Violence, But the Truth Is the Murder Rate Is at a 50-Year Low

[beevul]

58. Yes. You do.

You know what a rhetorical question is?

As a matter of fact I do, and I will let you know if I ask one. Not the other way around.

So now you were just asking random questions?

This question pertains to one of your claims. There is nothing random about it at all, as you well know:

How many of those states have a rate that is a function far more of low population than actual murders?

Well the answer to your question is no.

That would be an answer to a question I didn't ask. I asked this:

How many of those states have a rate that is a function far more of low population than actual murders?

The combined population of over half the United States and with a murder rate that averaged to more than the national average is not some trick or the light or slight of hand.

Oh, but how it is expressed most certainly is, as everyone on both side of the gun debate knows full well.

The percentage of gun owners killing all those Americans is also beside the point.

Like hell it is. The 80 to 100 million gun owning Americans who aren't shooting anyone get a say in this too.

If you have to suffer to save thousands of kids a year - and by suffer I mean have your toy taken away - then so be it.

I'm pretty sure it isn't even "thousands" of kids a year, but reaffirm my faith and come back citing a report that counts 19 year olds as 'kids', wont you?

You have just self identified yourself as an anti-gun extremist, well outside the American mainstream.

There's no justification got 300M guns being in the wild in a country of 300M.

Yes there is. Its a free country and people desire them. No other justification necessary.

And even less when you simply look at all the innocent people that die so you can own a gun.

Nobody dies "so I can own a gun" any more than anyone dies "so I can own a car". You are well off the rails now.

I simply don't care about your desire to have one.

I'd say your repeated posts and nonsensical arguments indicate that you care very much about it. To the point of hatred.

I don't think it should be a right and would indeed support the police knocking on your door and taking it away.

Like I said, You have just self identified yourself as an anti-gun extremist, well outside the American mainstream.

Your right to a toy doesn't supercede citizens rights to live in safety.

My right is NOT in conflict with citizens rights to live in safety, the unlawful actions of others is.