The Gun Fight in Washington. Your opinons?

The pattern is staggering. A number of U.S. cities have gun homicide rates in line with the most deadly nations in the world.

If it were a country, New Orleans (with a rate 62.1 gun murders per 100,000 people) would rank second in the world.
Detroit's gun homicide rate (35.9) is just a bit less than El Salvador (39.9).
Baltimore's rate (29.7) is not too far off that of Guatemala (34.8).
Gun murder in Newark (25.4) and Miami (23.7) is comparable to Colombia (27.1).
Washington D.C. (19) has a higher rate of gun homicide than Brazil (18.1).
Atlanta's rate (17.2) is about the same as South Africa (17).
Cleveland (17.4) has a higher rate than the Dominican Republic (16.3).
Gun murder in Buffalo (16.5) is similar to Panama (16.2).
Houston's rate (12.9) is slightly higher than Ecuador's (12.7).
Gun homicide in Chicago (11.6) is similar to Guyana (11.5).
Phoenix's rate (10.6) is slightly higher than Mexico (10).
Los Angeles (9.2) is comparable to the Philippines (8.9).
Boston rate (6.2) is higher than Nicaragua (5.9).
New York, where gun murders have declined to just four per 100,000, is still higher than Argentina (3).
Even the cities with the lowest homicide rates by American standards, like San Jose and Austin, compare to Albania and Cambodia respectively.

So school shootings and churches where unarmed law abiding citizens were gunned down by armed psychos is not reality?

I wish we could take all of you gun ban supporters

he research has been done. 87% of gun homicides occur in or near homes, on streets or in cars.

My bet off hand is that mass shootings of the kind that happen at Newtown occur far more in gun free zones then non gun free zones.

You mean you want to bet that mass shootings happen where large groups of people congregate? Wow.. That's really going out on a limb.

So if most commercial zones, malls and other public places are not gun free zones that means over 90-95% of gun homicides occur in areas that are not "gun free zones."

So we should only deal with mass killings when it comes to gun deaths? That seems a bit odd, don't you think Bill? Haven't you argued that an assault weapon ban is silly because long guns kill so few people?

By the way, here are the mass shootings for 2012.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/us-mass-shootings-2012/

Feel free to tell us which ones were in gun free zones. It looks like about half to me.

There are only 84 deaths total in mass shootings in 2012. That is a lot less than the total homicides by long guns which were 606. But you only want to deal with mass killings it seems. By the way, assault weapons were used or carried by the perp in 43 of the deaths out of the 84 total deaths. That would seem to point to assault weapons being used in the majority of mass shooting deaths during 2012.

That's funny Spurt. What is even funnier is that you actually think Hitler said that as quoted.

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Re: parados (Post 5272996)
parados wrote:

That's funny Spurt. What is even funnier is that you actually think Hitler said that as quoted.

Parasite, I find no evidence that the exact quote can be attributed to Adolf Hitler, but you can't disprove that he said it.
If Hitler isn't responsible for the exact quote, then it was derived from words Hitler did speak.

Parasite, I find no evidence that the exact quote can be attributed to Adolf Hitler, but you can't disprove that he said it.