Last year nearly 11,000 people died in America due to Handguns

Exactly. Over 3 times as many people die in car accidents from improperly using cars. They are too accessible. We need to ban cars and have background checks for all people who want to buy a car

How many died from cholesterol from eating to much cheese?

Cars should be banned!

Ban cheese!

11000 out of 2,400,000 deaths. That's about 1 in 1000. Big whoop! The price of freedom. Gun deaths are so rare that they make the news all over the world.



Too bad that in every school there isn't a responsible person authorized to carry a weapon. Better yet, have two or three locked up around the school that can be reached.

lets hope we can raise that count.

11,000 a year is a lot. I wonder if there ever has been a study that divides the victims and perpetrators by cultural group, and whether the victims are actual victims of crime, or the result of a self defense action.

I have a feeling that the results of such a study would indicate those part of society that need better education, a better sense of enfranchisement and a reduction in the sense of entitlement.

I think it is really important to look at this problem dispassionately and not with prejudice founded upon the perceived rights of individuals. The problem is that no one in the US really wants dispassionate argument, because in general, they just know they are right and everyone else is wrong.

how many people live in those countries?

oh... 35,000+ die in car accidents in America each year as well...

Cite your source or I will assume that you are posting false numbers to make a point.

How many were hunting accidents?
How many were trigger pumping cops who kicked in teh wrong door?
How many were ciminals killed by potential victims who happened to have a gun to defend themselves?
How many were suicides?



What wbout motor vehical deaths ? Last year it was 32,367. [link to en.wikipedia.org]

Do you want to knee jerk ban cars?

Gun control laws make for easy prey for the criminals.

Last Edited by .5.. on 12/15/2012 10:26 AM

When he had his own teeth!

98,000 Died last year from medical malpractice .
BAN Doctors and Pharmacies. [link to www.thelancet.com]

This is really lame add up all the other objects used for murder. It ain't low. If guns weren't around something else would be used.

Not to mention over half were suicides.

I continue to pose this simple question, but have yet to hear any credible response from the mouth-breathing anti gun idiots out there:

Where are the numbers from Nazi Germany?

Where are the numbers from Stalinist Russia?

Pol Pot's Cambodia?

Mao's China?

This is actually approximately 1:200. But these are statistics for actual death not death per head of population. Deaths by gunshot per head of population would be 11,000 out of 350,000,000 or 11:350,000 or approx 1:35000. The accurate comparison between all these countries then would be a ratio of deaths per head of population, not an absolute number. Thus Sweden is 11:9,500,000 or 1:95,000 which makes it about one third as likely that a Swede will be shot to death with a handgun, than an American.

Last Edited by Prostetnik on 12/15/2012 10:34 AM

um...how many people died from auto accident? gonna ban cars too?

You European liberal socialists watch too many of our movies, and are dumb enough to think that's real life. How many people in your "socialist paradise" were killed slowly and cruelly by more barbaric methods?

you are liken the US of today with


?

Most of that 11,000 were black, so it doesn't matter!

Wikipedia?

lol your the fail.

818 people were shot dead in 2005 according too the RCMP's figures.

last year over a million lives were saved because home owners used their firearms to chase off criminals.

As If Luxemburg knows wtf is happening in Canada.

People think this place is a paradise. Well your local media is lieing too you.

This place is a hell hole, crack addicts everywhere, rampant use of Crystal Meth. We have an incredibly high amount of unreported domestic abuse. In a night I will see about 5-7 fights driving around. In high school people were being stabbed or beaten up everyday. My home town had many school lock downs from a nature trail rapist murderer.

Please don't speak for us.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

There are at least 11,000 European, Britons and Australians that should have been killed by a gun last year but weren't because of hand gun bans. Alas you must live with the assholes who were not killed. That is why you grow Queen marys, hitlers and mussolinis types that have and someday will kill multiple million. While at times we lose innocent we by far lose less innocent than what those have done. We get our killing done early. You let it linger until it is an out of control world disaster.

You take care of yours and we will take care of ours thank you and unfortunately we will again have to take care of you once again like we always do.

in the meantime


Last Edited by TidesofTruth on 12/15/2012 10:54 AM

as fukushima kills everybody

Car crashes kill 40,000 in the U.S. every year. Maybe we should ban cars.

[link to www.foxnews.com]

Car Crashes Kill 40,000 in U.S. Every Year

Imagine a plane full of people crashing, killing everyone on board, every single day. That’s how many people die on America’s roads daily, says the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

“Motor vehicle crashes in the United States result in more than 40,000 deaths per year,” says the Institute in the journal Injury Prevention. “That is, on each of the 6,209 consecutive days included in this study, an equivalent of a plane load or more of people died on the roads.”


Read more: [link to www.foxnews.com]

Last Edited by telling it straight on 12/15/2012 11:00 AM

300,000 died in the US from big pharma pills.

This is every year.

Canada had 52 handgun related deaths...

Population 35 million compared to USA with 350 million...so, if you look at the fact that America is 10 times larger, population wise than Canada you should have have under 600 handgun related deaths.

11000...think about that...11000

Its a sad fact that a once great nation lives in fear of its own neighbors...And I'm not talking Canada or Mexico...you're scared of yourselves. I can see some real strife coming down from this, because you now have a President who actually gives a shit. Harsh laws will be put in place over gun control. The redneck agenda will be willing to go to war over it...because that's what they are...Rednecks.

RIP America, you had a nice run.

even with your number! the U S wins


canada
818 out of 34.278.406


USA
11000 out of 314.167.157

so

canada
per 100.000 people 2,386 were shot


USA
per 100.000 people 3,501 were shot

btw.
Canada has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world.
There are almost as many rifles per capita in Canada as in the United States


apparently canada needs stricter gun laws too...


thx for proofing the point for more gun control! tard.

Looking at overall homicide rates, guns were just a better choice in the USA, however our overall homicide is not so bad.

[link to chartsbin.com]

No one seems to be able to answer that...

It comes back to two obvious and unassailable points:

1) When guns are outlawed only criminals will have guns. Yes, this includes the government.

2) I will not surrender my firearms.

I live in the States. Grew up here. A LOT of my fellow countrymen feel this way. It's ingrained in our culture.