FBI: More People Killed by Hammers, Clubs than with Rifles of Any Kind
hangsleft
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Posted 4:21 pm, 08/13/2019
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I've owned a hammer and never built a deck.
What's your point?
I could say that many Europeans countries have the same violent video games and rarely have a mass murder.
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CowBoysFan
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Posted 4:06 pm, 08/13/2019
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Explain to me how I have owned firearms (handguns, rifles and shotguns) my entire adult life and they have never killed anyone or anything?
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hangsleft
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Posted 1:06 pm, 08/13/2019
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Hammers made for nailing
Planes made for transportation
Guns made for killing
Fox reminds me of the old commercial "this is your brain.....this is your brain on drugs....any questions?"
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Umpire
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Posted 12:24 pm, 08/13/2019
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YOU JUST GOT YOUR *** HANDED TO YOU AGAIN.
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Foxnose
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Posted 12:21 pm, 08/13/2019
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Brains were made for thinking but you don't seem to use your's (if you got one) for that. What are you a collector?
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Umpire
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Posted 11:59 am, 08/13/2019
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HEY CUPCAKE,
AIRPLANES WERE INVENTED FOR TRANSPORTATION.
GUNS FOR KILLING.
NOW, GO BACK AND HIDE UNDER THAT ROCK OF YOURS.
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Foxnose
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Posted 11:55 am, 08/13/2019
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Basement boy, when is the last time you saw someone kill 2996 people almost instantly with a gun. Should we outlaw airplanes?
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Umpire
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Posted 6:01 am, 08/13/2019
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HEY JOEY,
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW ANYONE KILL NINE PEOPLE WITH A HAMMER IN 32-SECONDS?
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MarieLaveau
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Posted 7:01 pm, 08/12/2019
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Now,.... All that info makes alot of sense to one that owns a Fire Arm in home/ carrying, yet Don't know how to use it...
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antithesis
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Posted 6:43 pm, 08/12/2019
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I came to this thread with the intention of saying the same thing: why the focus on rifles? Handguns are by far the leading cause of violent homicides.
And I honestly can't think of any reason for a civilian to own a handgun other than to shoot at other people. I know that gun advocates cry "self defense," but handguns are used 44 times more often to commit a crime than for self defense:
Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that living in a home where guns are kept increased an individual's risk of death by homicide by between 40 and 170%. Another study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology similarly found that "persons with guns in the home were at greater risk of dying from a homicide in the home than those without guns in the home." This study determined that the presence of guns in the home increased an individual's risk of death by homicide by 90%. Claims that guns are used defensively millions times every year have been widely discredited. Using a gun in self-defense is no more likely to reduce the chance of being injured during a crime than various other forms of protective action. At least one study has found that carrying a firearm significantly increases a person's risk of being shot in an assault; research published in the American Journal of Public Health reported that, even after adjusting for confounding factors, individuals who were in possession of a gun were about 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not in possession. The gun lobby has often cited to a thoroughly debunked statistic that guns are used defensively 2.5 million times per year in the United States. That discredited estimate came from a 1995 study that suffered from several fatal methodological flaws, including its reliance on only 66 responses in a telephone survey of 5,000 people, multiplied out to purportedly represent over 200 million American adults. The authors of that discredited study themselves stated that in up to 64% of their reported defensive gun use cases, the guns were carried or used illegally, including cases where the victim was actually the aggressor. A study published in 2013 by the Violence Policy Center, using five years of nationwide statistics (2007-2011) compiled by the federal Bureau of Justice found that defensive gun use occurs at a dramatically lower rate, about 98.5% lower than the gun lobby has claimed. The V.P.C. also found that for every one justifiable homicide in the United States involving a gun, guns were used in 44 criminal homicides. This ratio does not take into account the tens of thousands of lives lost in gun suicides or accidental shootings every year.
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Joseph T.
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Posted 4:52 pm, 08/12/2019
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Fine call the FBI and have they separate all the blunt objects
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Foxnose
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Posted 4:52 pm, 08/12/2019
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Guns and hammers are way down the list. Leading cause is scissors. Just ask Planned Parenthood
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hangsleft
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Posted 4:47 pm, 08/12/2019
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I did read the article, where they cherry picked one particular type of gun.
So let's pull out one type of blunt object since we are comparing only one type of gun.
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MarieLaveau
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Posted 4:34 pm, 08/12/2019
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Decapitated and ruled Natural causes is certainly the most scary.. Well ya deceased anyway soooo, What difference does it make?
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Joseph T.
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Posted 4:18 pm, 08/12/2019
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I pick the one firearm for which the article I link to was about which was rifles. The article was not about pistols but if you had read the article you would have known that.
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hangsleft
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Posted 4:09 pm, 08/12/2019
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Handguns = 7032
Firearms (type not stated) = 3096
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hangsleft
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Posted 4:06 pm, 08/12/2019
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Total firearms: 10982
So you picked out one type of firearm - LOL. Good try.
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