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Of the homicides, 37% state and 28% federal prisoners used a firearm. Basically two thirds of the murders were not done with firearms.
Most homicides are committed with knives and blunt objects (bats, hammers, feet, rocks).
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Originally Posted by Harry Hemi
I dunno, maybe if we can plug where the criminals are getting the guns, they can stop getting them and committing crimes with them? I thought pro-gun people were in favor of stopping criminals from getting the guns?
Plug where criminals get guns? Did you really just type that?
The easiest way to stop armed criminals is with a well armed citizenry. That "plugs" it right up.
Who cares? It doesnt matter where anyone gets a gun, its what they do with it.
I wonder how many of the "criminals" were in prison for non-violent crimes such as drug possession..in other words they were never really criminals and so what if they had a gun or where it came from.
Shall we look at where bank robbers get their getaway cars next?
How naive must someone be to believe that most drug offenders who have actually been sentenced to prison are "nonviolent?"
How naive must someone be to believe that most drug offenders who have actually been sentenced to prison are "nonviolent?"
Most are non-violent actually.
Back in my days of using heroin, I knew roughly 10-12 dealers, NONE of them were violent, they just wanted to sell dope, and usually doing it only to feed their own addiction, so most low level dealers are not 'getting rich' like many people assume, thats more the mid and top level guys, that do not use the drugs, they are the ones who are most likely to use violence, but these guys RARELY get caught, they are too well insulated, its the guys directly above them and those below them, that get arrested most of the time.
Drug dealing is nothing like how its depicted in tv shows and movies, its much more boring and mundane.
There is no way to keep criminals from getting guns. (And, if we could, they would be in jail for using knives, bats, clubs, rocks or whatever else they could get their hands on to maim, or kill, someone else)
Type in the words, 'guns stolen from....." and fill in any city or state or armory or gun shop or police and see where the guns are coming from.
when Obama said the safest places have the strictest gun laws, his stement was based on academic theory not reality. otherwise the streets of Maine would be running red with blood. this lie has done more to generate distrust in the government, its studies and statistics. Just run the words I mentioned and recoil in horror at the number of guns stolen.
Obama was referring to the corollary of 'no guns equals no gun deaths'. This theory is what the left is seeking when they pass ineffective gun laws which exempt criminals. the wish to achieve a state of NO private gun ownership by an imperceptibly accumulating burden of administrative laws and regulations. Meanwhile this demands innocent lives be sacrificed to achieve that theoretical goal.
When Hillary said 90something per cent of guns the drug cartels use came form US gun shops, she let slip her knowledge of Fast and furious program Holder oversaw.
I've never heard of an innocent bystander getting clubbed or stabbed in a drive by.
Have you heard of people doing driive-bys being afraid of breaking gun laws?
"Trevor, I'd love to use your AK for that drive-by, but the magazine you have holds more than 10 rounds. That's against the law. If you can come up with a legal magazine, I'd be more than happy to shoot some #!%×÷+$@ at that birthday party."
How naive must someone be to believe that most drug offenders who have actually been sentenced to prison are "nonviolent?"
Most drug offenses are for possession, most of these people are not criminals in their day to day lives. Of those addicts may be violent but only because they can't get their fix. e.g. knocking Grandma over for her purse. Hardcore criminals that are violent to the core make up small amount of drug arrests.
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