Posted: 7/12/2012 9:08:38 AM EDT
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http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-is-atf-promoting-brady-campaign.html
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has produced a series of public service announcements encouraging people to report "gun crime". They appear to be aimed at reducing gangs and gang violence.
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http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-is-atf-promoting-brady-campaign.html The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has produced a series of public service announcements encouraging people to report "gun crime". They appear to be aimed at reducing gangs and gang violence.
Thanks for linking this. It is always cool to see my blog mentioned on Arfcom! |
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Well, because the ATF, DOJ, and the Brady Campaign are all buddies and probably golf together or give each other handjobs at their D.C. cocktail parties while they talk about how they're going to show all of us no-good God fearing gun clingers what's good for us.
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These raw numbers come from the CDC's WISQARS database for 2009. If you go deeper, you find that 59% of the deaths using a firearm are suicides. Only 36% are homicides or what the average person would call a result of violent crime. Of the 87 people that "gun violence" kills per day, 56 are self-inflicted. Only an average of 31 per day nationwide (or a few weekends in Chicago) are the result of crime. Looking at the "children" killed by "gun violence", we find that 2,420 out of the 2,966 deaths are for those aged 16 or older. This would include self-inflicted deaths, gang violence, legal interventions by police, accidents, and murders. Given that a 16 year old can be tried as an adult in most states, I think that is a more appropriate age cut-off than those under age 20. |