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Re: Killing animals for entertainment

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 11 Jan 13 4:00 AM | 70 view(s)
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murky - yes.

but i think the fact that the industrial country with the most guns per capita also leads in gun homicides per capita is not a coincidence.

admittedly, there are other ways to kill people.

but if i am to weigh the great excitement for apparently sane people in obliterating animals for joy with an assault weapon and allowing children to be obliterated by crazy people with assault weapons, i am gonna think the lesser sacrifice is with the animal killers.

perhaps they could go off and masturbate to get their kicks. i mean, come on. leave the ducks and deer alone.

here's where i hope a gun loon says they don't need an assault weapon to kill a duck. cos if you don't, then there are even more reasons to get rid of them.


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Re: Killing animals for entertainment
By: DigSpace in ALEA
Fri, 11 Jan 13 3:03 AM 		Msg. 12437 of 54959

I used to know these numbers pretty well, but who knows ... in any event, as memory serves gun deaths are suicide>homicide>accident>self-defense, but that the most likely deadly use of a gun in the US was suicide.

for 2012:

In the U.S. for 2010, there were 31,513 deaths from firearms, distributed as follows by mode of death: Suicide 19,308; Homicide 11,015; Accident 600.

http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNSTAT.html

deadly use in self-defense generally runs about 1% of deadly use.

So, mostly, by far, handguns in the US are used for suicide. As memory serves 5-10% of homicide with guns are "justifiable", but those are pretty stale memories.

PS - I'm not pro-gunning this issue - get rid of the bloody things is where I stand, just pointing out that some correlations are a bit murky.

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