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Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 6042 **10/3/15 7:47 pm**

Here are a few facts for you (taken from Kristof's column in the NYTIMES:

1. More Americans have died from guns just since 1970 than in ALL of our wars going back to the American Revolution.

2. In America, more preschoolers are shot dead each year (82 in 2013) than police officers are in the line of duty (27 in 2013), according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FBI.

3. More than 60 percent of gun deaths are suicides, and most of the rest are homicides. (Just in case you're thinking that people would just kill themselves some other way, you're wrong. It SIGNIFICANTLY cuts down on suicide. That means someone might live long enough to see the light at the end of the tunnel.)

4. Daniel Webster, a public health expert at Johns Hopkins University, notes that in 1999, the government listed the gun stores that had sold the most weapons later linked to crimes. The gun store at the top of the list was so embarrassed that it voluntarily took measures to reduce its use by criminals — and the rate at which new guns from the store were diverted to crime dropped 77 percent.

Here's the deal, IF we can reduce murders by even 10% is that not worth it? Some claim we can reduce it up to 50%.

And what if we could save just a handful of children dying? Wouldn't that be worth it?

You are acting so defensively that you seem to think I want to take guns away. I DO NOT! Here's the link to the article. It says much more and has some very good ideas. I encourage you to at least see if you have an idea that might make a difference...instead of just arguing that we do nothing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-a-new-way-to-tackle-gun-deaths.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fnicholas-kristof&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 6385 **10/3/15 9:21 pm**

I am not arguing , i do however believe that when everyone is armed the number of mass killings by these demon possessed people will fall. this is the only way to curb these criminals.

Laws wont do it - Politicians wont do it - Liberals wont do it - Conservatives wont do it - we the people must do it.

Case in point - If an armed citizen sees someone about to assassinate a person or a group of people then the citizen should blow the assassins head off.