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What do we do to prevent another Las Vegas?
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<blockquote data-quote="Obliquinaut" data-source="post: 71879653" data-attributes="member: 399724"><p>Well, I sure would like to provide those to you but you see the NRA effectively quashed any real investigation of the link between gun ownership and threats to Americans for the last 17 or so years. I really would like to have the data but, well, you know the Truth-Police at the NRA don't want anyone to really investigate.</p><p></p><p>We <em>can</em> look at the numbers we do have:</p><p></p><p>Gun homicides in the US: 3.16 per 100,000 people (<a href="http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>) , which is about 60 times higher than the rate in the UK but puts us in the same bracket as Nicaragua! </p><p></p><p>Per Capita Gun ownership is now about double what it was in 1968. About 35% of us homes own 192 million firearms (<a href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32842.pdf" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>). Now, granted homes with guns in them have actually been declining recently (<a href="http://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_Trends%20in%20Gun%20Ownership_US_1972-2014.pdf" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>), probably due to a decline in hunting. America still has among the highest rates of per capita gun ownership (<a href="http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/home.html" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>).</p><p></p><p>I guess we'll never really know if it is dangerous for a nation to have SO MANY guns because a small group of gun-industry lobbyists through the NRA have effectively kept the topic radioactive for any legislators to tackle it and for any researchers to study it.</p><p></p><p>Oh well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Obliquinaut, post: 71879653, member: 399724"] Well, I sure would like to provide those to you but you see the NRA effectively quashed any real investigation of the link between gun ownership and threats to Americans for the last 17 or so years. I really would like to have the data but, well, you know the Truth-Police at the NRA don't want anyone to really investigate. We [I]can[/I] look at the numbers we do have: Gun homicides in the US: 3.16 per 100,000 people ([URL='http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states']SOURCE[/URL]) , which is about 60 times higher than the rate in the UK but puts us in the same bracket as Nicaragua! Per Capita Gun ownership is now about double what it was in 1968. About 35% of us homes own 192 million firearms ([URL='https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32842.pdf']SOURCE[/URL]). Now, granted homes with guns in them have actually been declining recently ([URL='http://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_Trends%20in%20Gun%20Ownership_US_1972-2014.pdf']SOURCE[/URL]), probably due to a decline in hunting. America still has among the highest rates of per capita gun ownership ([URL='http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/home.html']SOURCE[/URL]). I guess we'll never really know if it is dangerous for a nation to have SO MANY guns because a small group of gun-industry lobbyists through the NRA have effectively kept the topic radioactive for any legislators to tackle it and for any researchers to study it. Oh well. [/QUOTE]
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