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ileus

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21. Of those supposedly 30k
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 06:27 AM
Oct 2012

How many were suicides?

How many were the subjects engaged in gang and drug activity?

Do they count Self defense shootings?

Do they count accidental shootings?

Do they counts LEO shootings?



What are the real numbers?

The Issue That Goes Ignored [View all] SecularMotion Oct 2012 OP
Please show Reasonable_Argument Oct 2012 #1
Please vote for Democrats SecularMotion Oct 2012 #2
I do Reasonable_Argument Oct 2012 #3
So you only vote for candidates that are endorsed by the NRA? SecularMotion Oct 2012 #5
No Reasonable_Argument Oct 2012 #7
so then You are a One Issue Voter? Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2012 #42
Do you take abortion in to account? 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #47
Stop the qun accusation low balling RegieRocker Oct 2012 #14
Do you vote the Democratic party line or the NRA line? SecularMotion Oct 2012 #19
Who says anybody has to vote a straight line? Glaug-Eldare Oct 2012 #20
You wouldn't want to vote the 'Democratic party line' Francis Marion Oct 2012 #28
Et tu, Brutus? PavePusher Oct 2012 #30
Many elected Democrats suppport gun rights. ... spin Oct 2012 #41
Sounds similar to: do you vote republican or do you want the terrorists to win? 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #49
"Many of them", as in 2 or 3 every twenty years...eom Kolesar Oct 2012 #13
Hardly Reasonable_Argument Oct 2012 #15
Ohio Gov Strickland sold out to the NRA and they screwed him over because NRA wanted a Republican Kolesar Oct 2012 #17
That's a remarkable fiction you've constructed Reasonable_Argument Oct 2012 #18
You are simply using the NRA as a bogeyman. ... spin Oct 2012 #39
Dodge identified. Please answer the question. n/t PavePusher Oct 2012 #31
The sequitur... Callisto32 Oct 2012 #35
"That ban, which prohibits the manufacture of semiautomatic firearms for civilian use," Glaug-Eldare Oct 2012 #4
From the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 SecularMotion Oct 2012 #8
That's not what the article says. Glaug-Eldare Oct 2012 #10
You would think if the OP was going to argue a position he would educate himself on the position first former-republican Oct 2012 #26
Sorry, I'm not going to play the guns vs crime correlation with you. SecularMotion Oct 2012 #32
"Military grade" weapons are very rare and expensive rrneck Oct 2012 #38
With that attitude, you will get the responses you deserve-derisive ones. friendly_iconoclast Oct 2012 #45
TO: Secular Motion..... Db Owen97 Oct 2012 #46
Do you vote for Democrats? SecularMotion Oct 2012 #48
If I can honestly agree with their stance on issues .... Db Owen97 Oct 2012 #50
Please tell us why you are voting for President Obama SecularMotion Oct 2012 #51
What type of "improvements" would you support? oneshooter Oct 2012 #52
I disagree with a number of issues.... Db Owen97 Oct 2012 #53
That flow chart was a joke Reasonable_Argument Oct 2012 #11
Once again SM proves the level of technical and legal ignorance of anti-gunners. Clames Oct 2012 #23
That's the most disturbing part about the OP former-republican Oct 2012 #27
The most disturbing part of the gun forum SecularMotion Oct 2012 #33
how are they stale and what talking points? gejohnston Oct 2012 #34
Disturbing? Clames Oct 2012 #43
I answered your questions.... Db Owen97 Oct 2012 #55
B*llshit, that's not what the article said rl6214 Oct 2012 #54
I'm sick of people beating this long dead horse. Dr_Scholl Oct 2012 #6
Most Americans have a lower tolerance for carnage than you. SecularMotion Oct 2012 #9
Do we know what the actual poll question was? Glaug-Eldare Oct 2012 #12
Roflmao just like the majority RegieRocker Oct 2012 #16
Or so the pollers claim. ManiacJoe Oct 2012 #36
nothing's free discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2012 #40
Of those supposedly 30k ileus Oct 2012 #21
They don't really care Reasonable_Argument Oct 2012 #22
Those questions have been asked time and time again. Remmah2 Oct 2012 #25
How many of the 30,000 killed were victims of repeat offenders or gang violence? Remmah2 Oct 2012 #24
It's amazing the level of ignorance that the New York Times permits in opinion pieces slackmaster Oct 2012 #29
Am I the only one that caught this? Trunk Monkey Oct 2012 #37
guns don't kill people, criminals kill people. That's the issue being ignored. nt trouble.smith Oct 2012 #44
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