5 Mind-Blowing Facts Nobody Told You About Guns

pauldun170 · 03-27-2013, 12:58 AM

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What about the people who actually buy guns? Statistics tell us that fewer people are buying guns, but those people are buying more of them. To the grad students on the anti-gun side of the debate, this looks like a bunch of crazy rednecks, stocking their militia for the coming war on Obamacare. Why else would the NRA be fighting to get states to legalize silencers if they don't want to shoot people and keep it a secret?
But people familiar with gun culture will recognize it as something far sillier: a bunch of grown men collecting firearms like little girls collect Barbie dolls ....

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_20396...#ixzz2Oi1qXGIc

Homeslice · 03-27-2013, 04:49 AM

Then there's the US government, buying up ammo in the deliberate attempt to drive up prices

Twobanger · 03-27-2013, 05:27 AM

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Take another look at the graph of murder by weapon type. Notice what's missing? Assault rifles. They barely chart -- even when lumped in with "other guns."

In reference to the charts in that story, if they ever get a handle on black on black gun crime, the total (gun) murder rate would be cut by over fifty percent.

LeeNetworX · 03-27-2013, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Twobanger

In reference to the charts in that story, if they ever get a handle on black on black gun crime, the total (gun) murder rate would be cut by over fiddy percent.

Fixed.

shmike · 03-27-2013, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by LeeNetworX

Fixed.

Twobanger · 03-27-2013, 04:23 PM

Twobanger · 03-27-2013, 06:33 PM

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/a/SB100...?mg=reno64-wsj

The statistics are staggering. In 2009, for example, the Centers for Disease Control reported that 54% of all murders committed, overwhelmingly with guns, are murders of black people. Black people are about 13% of the population.
The Justice Department reports that between 1980 and 2008, "blacks were six times more likely than whites to be homicide victims and seven times more likely than whites to commit homicide."

defector · 03-28-2013, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Twobanger

"blacks were six times more likely than whites to be homicide victims and seven times more likely than whites to commit homicide."

Yeah, but white people are like 99% more likely to be a mass murderer.

So we still got that going for us!

OneSickPsycho · 03-28-2013, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by defector

Yeah, but white people are like 99% more likely to be a mass murderer.

So we still got that going for us!

CasterTroy · 03-28-2013, 12:02 PM

Damn 1%ers

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Twobanger Canyon Carver Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 252	http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/a/SB100...?mg=reno64-wsj The statistics are staggering. In 2009, for example, the Centers for Disease Control reported that 54% of all murders committed, overwhelmingly with guns, are murders of black people. Black people are about 13% of the population. The Justice Department reports that between 1980 and 2008, "blacks were six times more likely than whites to be homicide victims and seven times more likely than whites to commit homicide."