Thread: Englands Gun crimes 4 times higher since ban
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Old 03-20-2008, 03:19 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CrazyFlamingos View Post
In just the 5 states attending this meeting there were 5,703 gun deaths:

Gun Deaths by State -- 2003

* Alabama: 765 deaths
* Florida: 1,940 deaths
* Georgia: 1,173 deaths
* Louisiana: 847 deaths
* Virginia: 811 deaths
* Washington, D.C.: 167 deaths

TOTAL: 5,703 deaths

Compare this to less than 60 gun deaths in the UK last year

Or just under 4,000 American lives lost in Iraq in the last 5 years.

Apparently Iraq is still much safer than the US.
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