There are no murders in my county and surrounding counties, yet most households are armed, concealed carry etc.
Must be your people are defective.
Must be your people are defective.
Quote from sle:
Actually, how about looking at the total number of gun-related deaths per capita. Not surprisingly, US in that ranking is only behind 3rd world countries. Any reasonable argument in response to this data?
Quote from Ricter:
While we're on this subject...
The teacher shooting in Nevada, while most tragic, does hold one lesson for us: it's not enough to merely have a gun on you, you need to have it in hand at all times, so the other guy can't get "the drop" on you. Teachers should be pointing with their gun, not a laser pointer.
Teacher: "Who has the answer?"
Timmy: raises hand.
Teacher: pointing (with gun), "Yes, Timmy?"
Timmy: craps pants.
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
The US really is two countries. One, a white, largely european, Christian country of generally responsible people.
The other is a largely black or hispanic underclass that has been encouraged by government policy to live dysfunctional, irresponsible lives characterized by soaring percentages of out of wedlock births, single parenting(if you can even call it parenting), functional illiteracy, an aversion to legitimate employment and high degrees of gang activity and crime.
I am quite confident the data on the first America compares favorably with any european country. The data from the second is more reflective of africa or latin america.
Unfortunately, the policy of our government and policy elites is to facilitate the growth of the second america while making life as difficult as possible for the first.