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In reply to the discussion: It's very simple: If you want new gun control laws, you need the cooperation of legal gun owners. [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)Do we really want to see where slavery would have gone if not stopped? Hell, race relations are abysmal now. As far as hell, why don't you count the amount of people that have died due to American gun violence in the past 30 years, not counting the fact that many of "our" guns end up in places throughout the world where people got shot up, all so that the people who pay the NRA can still make money.
or, look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_gun_deaths_are_in_the_US_every_year
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state
OK, so we dont just kill 600,000 in four years, no, we just let 30,000 people die every year. Like Stalin said, "a million deaths is a statistic."
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