Very difficult to get data on people killed by illegal immigrants. But the numbers on people killed by rifles (not the subset of AR15s) is obtainable and about 340 a year from 2007 to 2017. Given that this is all rifles, the number for AR15s is probably less than 340. So if you believe that the number of people killed by illegal aliens is over 340 a year, and this is not such a stretch as one might have thought, then the claim is correct. If you do not believe it, then it is not. But I've not been able to find reliable data on it.
Mollie Tibbetts murdered by ILLEGAL alien
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Very difficult to get data on people killed by illegal immigrants. But the numbers on people killed by rifles (not the subset of AR15s) is obtainable and about 340 a year from 2007 to 2017. Given that this is all rifles, the number for AR15s is probably less than 340. So if you believe that the number of people killed by illegal aliens is over 340 a year, and this is not such a stretch as one might have thought, then the claim is correct. If you do not believe it, then it is not. But I've not been able to find reliable data on it.
i kid, this applies to AAA who made the claim. I'd venture to say most people killed by rifles are likely in the "assault" category. You don't hear many hunting rifle accidents/murders/self defense/suicides happening.
I think you are probably correct, most of the rifle deaths are AR15 related, though there could be other categories of semi automatic rifles as well (like AR10s for instance). But not to get hung up on a technicality, the majority -if not all- of those likely should be counted in comparison purposes.
I see. You are not surprisingly okay with Canada just putting a Prime Minister in place with a third of the popular vote even though you can and have typed off into oblivion about how Trump's presidency is illegetimate because he did not get the popular vote.
You are all hack- all the time. If it is American it sucks. If it is Canadian you begin to sefl-stimulate.
"A preference for parliamentary government." Yeh, and everything is going so swimmingly well in Britain right now with the parliamentary gymnastic of the day to undermine the will of the people. Oh, my bad. If it is not American it is good. America sucks. Welcome to the world of Peizoe.
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All of us are fallible . Either those seeing grave dangers in Trump are right, or those who see him as a somewhat harmless fool capable of only temporary and limited damage are right, or those who see him as a hero and conqueror of the "Deep State" are right, but all of us can not be right.
Which is why we should be focused on solving problems and issues, and not people and actors on one side of the aisle or another.
This is a profoundly democratic result. that's what's important, even though "democracy is the worst form of government".
You have me confused with someone else. I have never "typed" or claimed that! Nor would I ever. I could make a strong argument for illegitimacy on other grounds however, but why bother? He is the President. We must deal with the present dangerous reality. By the way, having a President that did not receive a plurality of votes, is a profoundly undemocratic result. But we are all in agreement on that trivial point. We have an undemocratic system of electing our Presidents in the U.S., but that's the way we do it here. It's according to our Constitution. It's constitutional, but it is not democratic. I have, indeed, written reams on that topic.
Have you ever noticed how easy it is for each of us to imagine we have read something we haven't? I think it is a symptom of our preconceptions taking charge of our brains and blocking new information that is inconsistent with what we, often incorrectly, have already stored away in our brains.
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There is an alternative way to interpret what's going on in Britain. It can be seen as a marvelous example of democracy under the parliamentary system. So much better to handle controversy this way, I believe. Though admittedly a democratic solution is bound to work out like kissing your sister,i.e., not wholly satisfactory.
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I see. Electing a leader in Canada with one third of the popular vote = "profoundly democratic."
Electing a leader in the U.S with anything less than the popular vote = Illegitimate Presidency
Okay, I am following you. Things have not changed.
Canada good. America sucks.