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Gun Control & RKBA

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19. Non-sequitur

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 08:50 PM

Nov 2012

Your source for that?

Chance of dying by firearm in the US, 10.27 per 100,000

UK? .46

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

"Guns don't kill, people who pull the triggers do, and all too often."

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Boulder libraries to allow guns [View all] GreenStormCloud Nov 2012 OP

Until such point as yet another homeless person tries SheilaT Nov 2012 #1

Do you mean to say those things don't happen at stores? GreenStormCloud Nov 2012 #4

Citations to past occurances, please. PavePusher Nov 2012 #7

Did you find that in Fiction or Creative Writing? Remmah2 Nov 2012 #9

That's because it happens so often huh? glacierbay Nov 2012 #15

Another possible advance for gun rights glacierbay Nov 2012 #2

Don't call 'em Bolder libraries for nothing. nt Eleanors38 Nov 2012 #27

OR... Heliman Nov 2012 #3

Duck ! rablrouzer Nov 2012 #10

which was also true before they had any controls gejohnston Nov 2012 #11

Non-sequitur rablrouzer Nov 2012 #19

post hoc ergo propter hoc gejohnston Nov 2012 #21

And if the felons had returned fire? rablrouzer Nov 2012 #18

Who says the felons were already fleeing? GreenStormCloud Nov 2012 #22

Should make people bring their "silencers" too. montanto Nov 2012 #5

LOL glacierbay Nov 2012 #6

Well played! n/t PavePusher Nov 2012 #8

Okay. I can go to work now. nt rrneck Nov 2012 #14

I've carried in our Library for 5 years without an incident. ileus Nov 2012 #17

When I go to our local library I am armed. GreenStormCloud Nov 2012 #23

One should always go around prepared... ileus Nov 2012 #24

Been carrying to Public Libraries for 15 years. oneshooter Nov 2012 #25