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And people still claim we don't have a problem with guns in America!
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Here's the shocking claim: Since President John F. Kennedy was shot down in late 1963, more Americans have been killed by gunfire in this country than died in all U.S. wars.
The Virginia Center for Public Safety, a gun control advocacy group, repeated that assertion, which has been made before, in fliers handed out at a Jan. 18 rally in Richmond. And PolitiFact decided to run the numbers with the latest data.
why would they include suicide (at 63%!)? if they're going to include suicide, why not also include the # of people who killed themselves by jumping off something, hanging themselves or took a bottle of pills?
why would they include suicide (at 63%!)? if they're going to include suicide, why not also include the # of people who killed themselves by jumping off something, hanging themselves or took a bottle of pills?
and if they didn't have a gun, they would have opened up their veins in a bathtub or 567 different ways people kill themselves.
Like I said, it is very disingenuous to include people inflicting harm on themselves as part of a blog on gun violence. But hey, to each his own. Huffington post has their koolaid drinkers just like any other extremist blogging site.
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