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TheYankeeMarshal has an interesting idea to deal with Obama's executive orders and gun control in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgAncNGh-Hs

Skiprr wrote:

AndyC wrote:And why do only the gun homicides count?

Pretty ridiculous to focus solely on one object when we should be looking at ALL homicides - unless one has an agenda, of course.

They shouldn't. Total homicides per 100,000 population should be the measure.

But we also need to note there are no consistent standards for violent crime reporting among countries. As John Lott has often noted, there simply is no way to accurately compare crime stats. And areas in the U.S. that skew our numbers up are areas that strictly regulate firearms, like Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, D.C., etc.

We can't even get standardized reporting here in the US. Recently it came to light that some city (Chicago?) didn't report a crime as a homicide until they had a conviction.

Edit: Here is the CDC report, Deaths: Final Data for 2010, which is the latest year available.

The 15 leading causes of death in 2010 were:

1. Diseases of heart (heart disease)
2. Malignant neoplasms (cancer)
3. Chronic lower respiratory diseases
4. Cerebrovascular diseases (stroke)
5. Accidents (unintentional injuries)
6. Alzheimer’s disease
7. Diabetes mellitus (diabetes)
8. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis (kidney disease)
9. Influenza and pneumonia
10. Intentional self-harm (suicide)
11. Septicemia
12. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
13. Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disase (hypertension)
14. Parkinson’s disease
15. Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids

Assault (homicide) dropped from among the 15 leading causes of death for the first time since 1965.

Here is the true impact of the "gun problem".

There are 312 million people in the US.

According to the CDC, there are roughly 32,000 deaths a year in the US and declining from Gun Violence.

This means you have a 0.00010256410256410300% chance of death by gun.

Let's break those numbers down:

60% are suicides. That's 19,200
3% are accidental. That's 960
4% are justified. That's 1,280
33% are homicides. That's 10,560
80% of homicides are gang related. That's 8,448

That leaves 1,712 in a society of 312 million people.

If you don't hang out in the hood, are not planning to commit a crime, and if you do not plan on committing suicide, that chance drops to 0.00000548717948717949%

America DOES NOT have a gun problem.