Progressives' Ridiculous Gun Control Argument - Susan Brown - [page]
http://townhall.com/columnists/susanbrown/2013/01/16/progressives-ridiculous-gun-control-argument-n1489939/page/full/.....” The article failed to present an honest assessment of facts and figures, most likely to incite an emotional, rather than rational response, hence inspiring me to go fact digging, which led me to the FBI's Expanded Homicide Data Table number 8. According to the FBI, in 2010, there were 8,775 gun homicides. Of those, 6009 were from handguns, 358 from rifles, 373 from shotguns, 96 by "other" guns, and 1939 "not specified." This breakdown doesn't bode well for those promoting re-regulation of assault weapons. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, most mass murders are committed with "firearms that would not be restricted by an assault weapons ban." The same FBI report disclosed that knives and cutting instrument deaths (1704) quadrupled rifle deaths and 540 people died from blunt objects, similar to the Golden Globe award Anne Hathaway just received and labeled as a "lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self -doubt." Knock yourself out, Anne. Anyway, I digress. If one applied the same twisted logic as Vice President Biden who recently said, "If only one life is saved, it's worth it," then I suppose we need to ban big shiny club -like award objects. Or maybe we need to ban the use of appendages, since almost twice the amount of people who died from shotgun wounds were killed by hands, fists or feet. While we're at it, we need to do something about falling because, according to the CDC, 24,792 people died as a result, in 2009.”.....
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