03-20-2008, 02:13 PM
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| Congressional Representative Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Alabama Gender:  Posts: 2,468 Points: 12,752, Level: 73 | Level up: 76%, 98 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by garysher  I dread to think about the number of firearms injuries in the US, do you have any statistics on that?
To quote your article again:
"Firearms murders (in the UK) have never gone over the 100 figure in the past eight years, although they did reach a peak of 95 in 2001-02 before starting to decline."
To put this in perspective the number of firearms murders for this year in Los Angeles is 93, as of last Monday
That's 93 in 11 weeks in Los Angeles alone!!!!
LA has a population of about 8 million, the UK population is about 60 million.
I'm not sure what it will take for you to appreciate just how out of control the gun problem is in America, and the horrific price you are paying for this allegedly God-given "right".
Other industrialised nations look on in disbelief.
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Gun Deaths in Alabama in 2003: 765
Mayors Against Illegal Guns: Regional Coalition Meeting November 30, 2006 Atlanta, Georgia Gun Deaths in Alabama in 2004: 679 Legal Community Against Violence Alabama's population is approximately 4.5 million.
Population of Alabama Right now America spends $700 billion every year on foreign oil. That's our money going overseas when it could be staying here. We have to stop this.
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