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aaangel wrote:

nuff said!

Yes Hillary, I understand that you don't need a gun, but most of us don't have 20 armed guards everywhere we go.

The next thing you know, she'll be asking why starving children don't just eat cake.

She says that guns kill 33,000 people a year in the U.S. Looking at total deaths involving guns over the last 3 years, this is pretty consistent.

That includes 21,000 suicides. I would argue those folks are killed by themselves, not by a gun. The gun is simply the tool chosen for that task. There are plenty of other tools available.

Of the remaining 12,000, a scant 500 or so are "unintentional deaths" so much for the epidemic of toddlers shooting people. 270 are from "undetermined causes", 600 or so are justifiable gun homicides (I guess the whole "stand your ground" thing isn't all that impactful either.

That leaves a little over 11,000 gun homicides a year (I'm presuming this includes righteous police shootings since there is no way these can all be included in the 600 justifiable homicides. But even if these are all criminal acts, what percentage of the killings would not have happened if no guns existed? There are knives, bricks, hammers, and various other tools that could just as easily be used. Let's be generous to the liberals and say half of all gun homicides would have just been assaults if guns never ever existed. That leaves 5,500 deaths that could truly be linked to the existence of guns, at the absolute most.

Every life is precious, but we are no where even remotely close to the point where we need to consider infringing on a fundamental individual right. We just aren't.

That tax refund needs to hurry up and get here so I can stock up before the rhetoric really heats up and we start seeing shortages.....