Except the innocent lives that are killed within those social groups.
And as long as weapons are being manufactured in places like China and Russia, criminal elements will continue to obtain them.
Of course, there were no killings before firearms.
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Tue 16 Dec 2014, 20:54,
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_disasters_by_death_toll
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Tue 16 Dec 2014, 21:32,
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So roughly the same number of deaths from war in all the time before 1800 as since?
Do you have similar figures for non-war-related murders?
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Ghoti Fingers, Tue 16 Dec 2014, 21:56,
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