Bloomberg pushes more gun control

[A-R]

“The time has clearly come to fulfill the intent of the 1968 law and the Brady Bill by creating a genuine credible background check system for the sale of fire arms,” Mr. Bloomberg said.
The mayor also said that Congress needed to require background checks of people who buy guns at gun shows. Mr. Bloomberg also urged President Obama to talk about gun control when he delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday night.

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About the only good thing about this is they picked a bad day to try to get media attention ... Russian terrorist attack, Rahm Emmanuel story, State of Union tomorrow, even Optah's long lost sister are getting better coverage.

[The Annoyed Man]

Won't that mook ever just shut up? I can't stand self-righteous social engineers.

[Purplehood]

Wow. 34 gun-deaths per day.

I wonder where he pulled that number from.

[surprise_i'm_armed]

Wow. 34 gun-deaths per day.

I wonder where he pulled that number from.

The other day some anti on the radio was blathering on and on,
and stated that "30,000 deaths a year are caused in the US by guns".
Divide 30,000 by 365 days in a year and you get 82 deaths a day!

I guess the anti's figure that fantastical hyperbole will get them the
gun control of which they dream.

SIA

[A-R]

Can't look it up right now but I think the 30,000 number is close. However something like 2/3rds of those are suicides, which - while tragic - any reasonable person understands would likely be commited some other way if guns didn't exist. The remaining 10,000 or so also is not split between "good guy" victims and "bad guy" deceased. Regardless the 10,000 number is significantly less than car wrecks, cancer, heart disease or deaths generally tied "obesity"

Again, can't look up actual numbers now but I think I'm fairly close on general assumptions here just off top of my head.