Bloody weekend: 24 shot in 24 hours prompting Mayor Bloomberg to call for tougher gun laws (New York: house, neighborhoods)
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talking gun ownership with non owners or anyone with no real knowledge other than believing their own bull-sh*t is akin to those who have no kids but can tell everyone who does how to raise them.
exactly my point about those with no knowledge of things but lots of comments that shoot from the hip..
nypd paid 200 bucks per handgun not 100.. there has been no change in the number of guns siezed each year over the last decade. between 5k and 7,000 each year.
I believe hand guns in the buy back went for about $100--hardly profitable. Either way, seems like getting any gun off the streets cheaply is worth it. By that logic, you'd have to turn in somewhere in the number of 3-5 illegal handguns in order to buy a better one. I don't know about you, but I like that deal.
exactly my point about those with no knowledge of things but lots of comments that shoot from the hip..
nypd paid 200 bucks per handgun not 100.. there has been no change in the number of guns siezed each year over the last decade. between 5k and 7,000 each year.
I made the correction in my previous post prior to this post, but thanks for making my point. It's a step in the right direction imo and it definately contributes to decreasing the number of gun related crimes.
350 guns off the streets of the Bronx in a single weekend, sounds like progress to me.
Like I mentioned before, we have enough gun control laws on the books, the problem is enforcement and punishment. I believe some of the criminals caught had related criminal history. My argument remains, had they not been on the streets, none of this would have happened.
talking gun ownership with non owners or anyone with no real knowledge other than believing their own bull-sh*t is akin to those who have no kids but can tell everyone who does how to raise them.
So in otherwords, I need to know what it feels like to be shot in order to know that I don't want to be shot?
"In Canada, there were 542 homicides in 2000 resulting in a national rate of 1.8 homicides per 100,000 population. By comparison, there were 15,517 homicides in the U.S., resulting in a rate (5.5) three times higher than Canada’s."
So in otherwords, I need to know what it feels like to be shot in order to know that I don't want to be shot?
thats silly, but to have opinions about things you really need a better understanding as to how things work.
most folks comment about every subject under the sun and do so with wives tales, myths , things they heard that are just wrong and then actually believing their own bull-sh*t.
before i judge about which is more lethal a gun or a knive i better understand ballastics and the effects on the body.
before i comment about the gun laws in nyc you should have experience understanding them to see how they play out and what they even are..
the list goes on and on but i guarantee you that maybe no more than a few here even know what nyc gun laws even are but they will comment all day long on them and how they arent tough enough. im not even sure what that statement is supposed to mean.
with a city of 15 million and 34,000 permits i would say there is already enough laws in place to even prevent honest citizens from getting a permit...
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