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Originally Posted by harry black
There are over 14,000 gun murders each year in this country and doing nothing about it should be unacceptable to all! Doing nothing when you're murder rate is 10 times higher than, for example, Japan, is not an option. The amount of firepower allowed to be possessed by the average citizen for protection or hunting should be limited. Failing a background check at a gun dealer and being able to walk across the street and successfully buy a gun at a gun show makes no sense. Does it? All guns should be registered (like automobiles) so that they can be tracked in the event of a crime. Is this not common sense? Will these changes not have the potential to reduce street crime in this country? If not please explain why not??
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Actually, statistics from 2013 are that there were approximately 33,000 deaths by gun in that year. Of those approximately 21,000 were suicides and a small percentage were accidents and justifiable homicide. That leaves about 10,000 homicides. I don't know how many of those were murders but that's irrelevant.
Ten thousand people is .00003% of our population. Is that a lot?
You state that our murder rate is 10 time higher than Japan. Even if that's true, you're not stating the murder by gun rate. The definition of murder in both countries also needs to be considered.
Only about 3% of criminals who use guns in their crimes obtained them legally.I agree that sales at gun shows need to be regulated, but that's still not going to stop criminals from obtaining guns illegally. More laws are not going to stop crazies and criminals from getting guns.