>>>Message : I don't care about you or your irrational fear, however, I care very deeply when a group of people who share your irrational fear attempt to restrict my liberty and my life.
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>>900,000 people shot to death in the USA since 1980. The fear is not irrational - your thinking is.
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>Where do you get these figures. That's pure BS.... Are you trying to tell me that as many people are killed by guns as by autos? No way...
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>There's an average of 43,900 people killed every year in auto accidents, which are far more pravalent that shooting deaths, and that number extrapolates to 1,0009,700 deaths, since 1980.
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>The latest year for which detailed statistics are available - 2012 - there were 12,664 murders in the US. Of those, 8,583 were caused by firearms. That's 1/5 of the deaths by auto, and 66% of gun deaths are suicide. Do the math. Your figures are no where near accurate. So even giving you the benefit of doubt, if we take 20,000 as the figure over the last 30 years, that's 360,000, 1/3 of the number you quoted. Quit being a knee-jerk liberal and do some research..
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>http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state
>http://premiumcomparisons.com/car-insurance-accident-statistics.php

Doh! I think it's either shootings or violent crimes committed with a gun - not murders - trying to find the info now. None the less 8500 just last year is still enough to me more than concerned.