@firefly,
hawkeye says of firefly's stories of people murdered since the Newtown massacre:
Quote:there are 315 million people in this country, you are hiding in the stories of a few very select individuals yet again.
No, she's not at all. And there aren't "a few very select individuals" either. There are many, many.
About 12,000 gun homicides in the US every year. That's about 240 a week. That means about 500 people have died by gun violence in the US since Newtown.
About 18ooo gun suicides every year. That's about 350 a week.
About 100,000 people wounded by gunshot every year. That's about 2000 a week..
That is NOT "a few very select individuals".
Do the math. That's around 130,000 people murdered by guns in the US since 9/11. That's forty times as many as died at the hands of the terrorists who brought down the Twin Towers. They were pikers by comparison. The REAL terrorists are the people with guns, who use them on other people, and there are a hell of a lot more of them in this country than Islamic terrorists. "To take away my guns, you'll have to pry them out of my cold, dead fingers". It's about time to take them at their word and start prying.