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In reply to the discussion: Several Dead In Southern California Shooting Spree [View all]Botany
(70,635 posts)"Gun violence is concentrated in urban areas with high levels of poverty, drugs and gangs."
Just because we have shootings in urban areas does not make rural or suburban areas
immune from the hideous disease of gun violence which takes 30,000 lives per year.
Newton, CT. 12/14/12, Webster, NY 12/24/12, & Hazard, KY 1/16/13 (all non urban areas w/recent
mass public killings)
Owning a gun does not make you or your family safer. The more guns a population has per
capita the more gun deaths they have per capita.
http://www.vpc.org/press/1302gundeath.htm
20 babies were killed w/a military assault weapon that shoots a .223 round @ >3,000 ft/sec
and is made to tumble after hitting a human which in turn causes massive trauma and if
if not treated shock and then death ... and yet gun nuts keep talking about their 2nd amendment
rights and freedoms?