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Originally Posted by RayinPenn
Why there are too many guns...
I work in the what was just rated the most violent small city. I see, read about and have experienced what guns can dow very day. I road that LIRR train that Collin Fergerson shot and killed all those people almost every night home. That night I missed it, caught the train behind it but Myself and 2 other commuters jumped off our stalled train to the Merlon ave. station. I did see the bloody carnage.
Every year in the U.S., an average of more than 100,000 people are shot
Every day in the U.S., an average of 289 people are shot. Eighty-six of them die: 30 are murdered, 53 kill themselves, two die accidentally, and one is shot in a police intervention, the Brady Campaign reports.
Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 335,609 people died from guns -- more than the population of St. Louis, Mo. (318,069), Pittsburgh (307,484), Cincinnati, Ohio (296,223), Newark, N.J. (277,540), and Orlando, Fla. (243,195) (sources: CDF, U.S. Census; CDC)
One person is killed by a firearm every 17 minutes, 87 people are killed during an average day, and 609 are killed every week. (source: CDC)
Too many guns in too many irresponsible and unbalanced hands. As scary a place as Israel can be they have gun control laws that are stricter and more intelligent then here in the states ..ours clearly are not working...
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Thanks for posting. That gun could have been picked up by a child.
Or, it could have been found by some "unsavory character" who would know what to do with it.
With so many on illegal drugs nowadays, druggies not in their "right minds".......who knows the damage that might have been done.
I "get" your message and the alarm you felt when finding it.
Thanks for posting. We also would have been alarmed to find it.