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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 09:49 AM Oct 2016

US gun violence in graphs.

We have more guns than most countries.


We also have more homicides than most similar countries.



Where there are more guns there are more suicides.


Guns kill a lot more people in the US than terrorism.

Yet we take our shoes off and are x-rayed to get on a plane and can't get get universal background checks.

As far as that goes, guns kill more people in the US than terrorists do in the rest of the world.


Guns now kill more people in the US than cars.

That's because cars have safety devices built in but guns are unchanged since the mid 1880s and the gun lobby fights smart guns tooth and nail.

More toddlers are killed with guns than police on active duty.

It's all good clean family fun, right?

Isn't it time to look into some sensible gun restrictions?
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US gun violence in graphs. (Original Post) flamin lib Oct 2016 OP
If these graphs and facts billh58 Oct 2016 #1

billh58

(6,641 posts)
1. If these graphs and facts
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 01:05 PM
Oct 2016

don't support more guns in more hands, they will be summarily dismissed by the Trumpian right-wing gun lobby as "typical grabber" propaganda.

They may even ask for a Special Prosecutor to put the presenter of these criminal lies and affronts to the Second Amendment in jail.

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