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2405 shot dead since Tuson
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:06 am
by philip964
Hmmm not sure whats up today, I guess it is beat up on gun owners day.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/1288 ... Nob3RkZWFk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Nothing in the story seems to be about the headline. Just about being anti gun. To bad the student hurt at Virginia Tech did n't work in the other direction and see that having gun free zones means your a sitting duck and that more needs to be done for the insane.
"In the House, New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, whose husband was killed in a 1993 mass shooting on a Long Island train" Hmmm arn't guns already illegal in New York, another gun free zone. She is a big anti gun advocate. BTW she also voted against a ban on late term partial birth abortions. She is also against the death penalty for criminals. So I guess to her some human lives are more valuable than others.
Re: 2405 shot dead since Tuson
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:23 am
by RPB
All told, an estimated 2,405 Americans have been shot and killed since Tucson,
Does this figure include our military? Criminals who were shot when people defended themselves and when police had to shoot them?
I think someone here once said "Statistics are like bikinis, they hide more important things than they reveal."
Re: 2405 shot dead since Tuson
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:41 am
by Beiruty
How many died in car accidents?
Re: 2405 shot dead since Tuson
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:45 pm
by VoiceofReason
I have a big problem with that number. Who came up with it and how?
Re: 2405 shot dead since Tuson
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:55 pm
by RPB
VoiceofReason wrote:I have a big problem with that number. Who came up with it and how?
Cat walked across his calculator and it looked good enough.
Someone probably took some old Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data , multiplied number of people shot per day times number of days. In other words, they probably made it up.
Re: 2405 shot dead since Tuson
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:48 pm
by WildBill
RPB wrote:VoiceofReason wrote:I have a big problem with that number. Who came up with it and how?
Cat walked across his calculator and it looked good enough.
Re: 2405 shot dead since Tuson
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:03 pm
by philip964
Geez, gun deaths going on tour.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/ ... T020110216" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This tour keeps a running total since Tuson. It started Feb 12 with 1300 with 24 added by mid morning.
Re: 2405 shot dead since Tuson
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:34 pm
by Rex B
RPB wrote:VoiceofReason wrote:I have a big problem with that number. Who came up with it and how?
Cat walked across his calculator and it looked good enough.
Someone probably took some old Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data , multiplied number of people shot per day times number of days. In other words, they probably made it up.
93.8% of all statistics are made up on the spot
Re: 2405 shot dead since Tuson
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:01 pm
by The Mad Moderate
Rex B wrote:RPB wrote:VoiceofReason wrote:I have a big problem with that number. Who came up with it and how?
Cat walked across his calculator and it looked good enough.
Someone probably took some old Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data , multiplied number of people shot per day times number of days. In other words, they probably made it up.
93.8% of all statistics are made up on the spot
including that one...
