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Gun Control & RKBA

benEzra

(12,148 posts) Mon Dec 5, 2016, 10:50 PM Dec 2016

An inconvenient truth... [View all]

Rifle Homicides in the United States, 2005-2015

2005: 442
2006: 436
2007: 450
2008: 375
2009: 348
2010: 358
2011: 323
2012: 302
2013: 285
2014: 248
2015: 252

(Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reports 2005-2015, Table 20, Collated)

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An inconvenient truth... [View all] benEzra Dec 2016 OP

But....but....but....moral posturing is a political winner! pablo_marmol Dec 2016 #1

Well.. virginia mountainman Dec 2016 #2

You have to have the correct come-back for data like this SkatmanRoth Dec 2016 #3

The ole poodle shooter...LOL ileus Dec 2016 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author Duckhunter935 Dec 2016 #5

Guns kill people.....everyone with #gunsense knows that. ileus Dec 2016 #6

What kind of rifle? Throck Dec 2016 #7

That's all kinds of rifles discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2016 #8

In 2015 468 murders in Chicago, 2,900 shootings. Throck Dec 2016 #9

And this year, yagotme Dec 2016 #10

Shouldn't be too hard they know who they are...the 1400 people responsible for 80% of the gun jmg257 Dec 2016 #11

Problem is, yagotme Dec 2016 #12

How many are in prisons for drug charges? discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2016 #13

Don't know exact numbers, yagotme Dec 2016 #14