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I saw her Facebook page before it was removed. Lots of gun loving, as you would imagine, but she is also a sovereign citizen. She had all kinds of dedications to "hero" LaVoy Finicum and the criminal Bundy family. Figures.
WISQARS reports that firearm accidental mortality was 586 people in 2014, the peak was 1999 at 824, the low was 2013 with 505. That said 2014 was the third lowest year since 1999, and that is through increased "proliferation of them in the hands of the very people..."
WISQARS again reports that firearm accidental injury 2013 was 16,864, peak was 18,941 in 2003 low was 14,161 in 2010, it's around the middle for the range of 2013 to 2001 (different data set). That said 2013 experienced the same "proliferation of them in the hands of the very people..."
Yet we know guns sold are at the highest levels ever seen, whether you think this is selling more to fewer, or more to more is up for debate. However the total number of firearms in the US is higher than a 1:1 ratio, and the accidents and mortality are not tracking the increased numbers. Even if we look at households the numbers reporting they possess guns is pretty stable in the face of increasing population, therefore the gross number of households who have guns is increasing at the rate of population, thus more opportunity for accidents to happen.
What has changed is two things, media reporting, and social media. Where previously in the 1990's through 2000 reports were local, now they're national and even international (even though the reporting agency is local). Social media also blows up the storm about these events, like this thread.
Neither of those changes are the result of gun owners, but of sensationalizing of these events. People who are gun owners who don't have any rational basis for owning a gun (they're not at high risks of crime, don't hunt, are not target shooters) are going to fall back to the purpose of the 2nd Amendment as expressed by Madison and Jefferson as a justification. That said they don't need to justify, the right is inherent, there is no need to qualify why you exercise a right.
Don't you dare to bring facts and truth into our discussion!
More children are drowned in home swimming pools but nobody gives a crap.
I saw her Facebook page before it was removed. Lots of gun loving, as you would imagine, but she is also a sovereign citizen. She had all kinds of dedications to "hero" LaVoy Finicum and the criminal Bundy family. Figures.
I think a new Facebook page was created by someone because the jokes and ridicule cannot be contained. The kid wasn't even buckled in his seat and the gun was loaded? Unbelievable. It appears she has a record too.
What would happen to the average suburban gun owner if he or she had to give up their gun(s)? People often cite "protection" as a reason for possession, so I'm curious about whether people are threatened on a regular basis. Is the gun a necessity for survival?
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