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Gun Control & RKBA

TeddyR

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8. "People killed more people"

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2015, 11:29 PM

Nov 2015

Fixed it for you. Guns didn't magically jump up and shoot someone. A human pulled the trigger, either to kill themselves or someone else. Quit blaming inanimate objects for something they didn't do.

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Between 2001 and 2013, guns killed more people [View all] SecularMotion Nov 2015 OP

Apples and oranges, as usual. N/T beevul Nov 2015 #1

Suicides, too? Those "other " deaths were not voluntary. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #2

Bad Bad....mean guns! ileus Nov 2015 #3

Now i'd love to see the same stat for other countries. yodermon Nov 2015 #4

So when did Iraq and Afghanistan become the 51st and 52nd states beardown Nov 2015 #5

No, gun deaths are increasing about 1-1.5% a year. nt flamin lib Nov 2015 #9

Proper, secured storage would go a long way ManiacJoe Nov 2015 #6

We know that suicide rates remain stubbornly high hack89 Nov 2015 #7

"People killed more people" TeddyR Nov 2015 #8

Read my sig line. nt flamin lib Nov 2015 #10