Five people and a dog, wow.
What about the countless accidental shooting stories?
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Tusk knows where you live, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 19:52,
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Accidental shootings happen. So do accidental deaths in pools, parasailing, etc.
More people are killed in auto accidents each year, but we don't ban cars or drink.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 19:55,
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No we don´t ban cars.
We do however have seatbelts, alcohol limits and drivers licenses.
I really don´t give a toss about gun control in the US, because a) it´s way to late for that and b) its not for me to opinionate on another countries laws.
What does piss me off no end is the way yanks (not you, mind) somehow feel the need ridicule those countries that do have gun control.
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Tusk knows where you live, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 20:01,
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Right, you do have those controls, just like we have many laws controlling guns.
Those who break those laws are responsible for the deaths. I just believe in the right to defend myself and my family.
I don't ridicule your gun control, but Norway has extremely strict gun control and just suffered a mass shooting. The UK did a few years back. Israel and Switzerland allow automatic weapons on the street and have few mass shootings. Once one gets beyond the hysterics of politics, one must ask why?
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 20:05,
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It may be the way media report it, or how I pick it up, but,
It seems to me mass shootings appear more frequently in the US then anywhere else, where they seem to be more exceptional incidents.
Also, at the risk of sounding flippant, the number of people killed in these mass shootings appear insignificant compared with the total number of fire arm killings.
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Tusk knows where you live, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 20:10,
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Right. The majority of firearm killings tend to be among urban types in cities with strict gun control, like Chicago and New York.
Like drugs, where there is a market, they will find their way in.
On the positive side, I saw a Department of Justice statistic that said that the prime beneficiaries of "justifiable homicide" (self-defense) are black men.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 20:24,
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