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I will point out that your link gives stats for the USA only. I believe Ms. Jackson was talking about world-wide deaths. I do not know where she got her facts (if fact it is), but this website gives the same number:
It does seem like a very high number, but, then again, the AK-47 is everywhere, and since 55 million or so people die each year, from various causes, it could be possible. This link claims that 1,000 people die each day (worldwide) from gunshots:
I will point out that your link gives stats for the USA only. I believe Ms. Jackson was talking about world-wide deaths. I do not know where she got her facts (if fact it is), but this website gives the same number:
It does seem like a very high number, but, then again, the AK-47 is everywhere, and since 55 million or so people die each year, from various causes, it could be possible. This link claims that 1,000 people die each day (worldwide) from gunshots:
Of course, 1,000 per day would equate 365,000 or so per year. So, it is, at least, possible that she is correct.
That second link was vague -- real vague -- about the gun deaths per day:
"Small arms, commonly known as firearms or guns, are used to kill as many as 1,000 people each day."
I get a "file not found" reference when I click on the link under the footnote. I realize the AK-47 is pretty widely used in third world countries, but I'm still not buying 250,000 deaths per year. And even the AK-47 link was not too heavy on reference sources.
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If Sheila Jackson Lee were white and gerrymandering didn't exist she would be lucky to work behind the layaway counter at WalMart.
Why we let stupid people like SJL into public office baffles me, she's the epitome of stupid and she's an elected official.
That's the sad part -- just like Maxine "The Mentalist" Waters, and her special brand of Idiocy.
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The AK was the revolutionary weapon of choice so worldwide yeah 3 years of civil war in Syria,a client state of Russia the Chinese,N.Korean copies Arab militaries,jihadists all use them.It is the wild west out in the real world boys & girls thank God & our Revolutionaries for our Second Amendment rights!
The very thing comrade Jackson and these Democratic Socialists fear...free speech free will and independently armed.
That second link was vague -- real vague -- about the gun deaths per day:
"Small arms, commonly known as firearms or guns, are used to kill as many as 1,000 people each day."
I get a "file not found" reference when I click on the link under the footnote. I realize the AK-47 is pretty widely used in third world countries, but I'm still not buying 250,000 deaths per day. And even the AK-47 link was not too heavy on reference sources.
That's the sad part -- just like Maxine "The Mentalist" Waters, and her special brand of Idiocy.
Well, no one said 250,000 deaths per day.
I realize that the 'fact' proclaimed by Ms. Jackson is not well-documented at all.
My point is thus: do not reject some opinion merely because you may not like the person saying it. It is lazy thinking.
Since the AK-47 is so popular throughout the world (the articles about the inventor kept estimating 70 million to 100 million AK-47s produced) it may possibly be true. However, I doubt that any 'firm' figure can be established.
I really don't see her point has if it were not the AK-47 then it would be another weapon.I guess her next speech will be about the car death by brand; now exciting.
I really don't see her point has if it were not the AK-47 then it would be another weapon.I guess her next speech will be about the car death by brand; now exciting.
Lol.
"So glad GM killed Pontiac off, bcuz those Catalinas were dropping people like AK's!"
Sheila Jackson Lee was a slave who came here in shackles...leave her alone!
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