How many have to die before we put vital controls on guns?

[oobray]

Interesting that she compared our crime statistics with the U.K. In one instance she is correct, but it is very misleading. She stated that there are more gun related deaths in this country. Yes, that is true, however when you look at overal violence... According to the home office of the UK there were 2,420,000 acts of violent crime in 2005 and their population was 60,209,500. That gives them a per capita violence rate of 1 in 24.88.
Now, the US during that same period had 1,390,695 acts of violence and a population of 296,410,404. That gave us a per capita violence rate of 1 in 213.14!!!
That means that while the UK may experience less gun related violence, the overall violence of the UK is almost 9 times higher than the US!!! Next time someone starts talking about the great gun laws that the UK has, throw those numbers at them.
Sources:
UK Stats http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime-victims/
US Stats http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/


Oh, and I went ahead and took the liberty of sending her a very nice email. (I mean that literally, I was very nice). And the address worked, just so everyone knows.

 

[sm]

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0506wiewior0506.html

Linda (Kengott) Wiewiorkiewicz is a former Valley resident and former community columnist for this newspaper. She currently lives in Chicago and is an account manager at a large insurance firm. She is the mother of three children and has family in the Valley.

How many have to die before we put vital controls on guns?

Damn Margo! I hate when folks breathe my air and do stupid stuff like this...

It should read:

How many have to die before we put vital controls on idiots that have no idea about the real world that write stories?

or

How many have to die before we put vital controls on Tyranny infringing on WE the People?

 

[tom barthel]

I've noticed the gun free zones seem to have more violent crimes against persons. A few years ago, a violent armed criminal was stopped by two ARMED STUDENTS after he fired several shots. I don't remember how many were shot by the bad guy. That was Va. Tech before it became gun free. Who knows what the outcome would have been if a few honest students were armed during the last incident.

 

[Kaylee]

How many have to die before we put vital controls on guns?

"At least one more, Ms. Wiewiorkiewicz. "

 

[mordechaianiliewicz]

What amazes me is that she has the brass.... um, uh-humm, to talk about Arizona when she doesn't even live there. When will liberals escaping their cesspools quit taking the same horrible policies with them?

I remember a guy at a gun shop I like to go to. I said that states do have rights in this matter. He responded that gun laws are like the plague, we need to contain, and make sure that stuff stays in Cali.

 

[SoCalShooter]

Linda (Kengott) Wiewiorkiewicz is a former Valley resident and former community columnist for this newspaper. She currently lives in Chicago and is an account manager at a large insurance firm. She is the mother of three children and has family in the Valley.

Apparently just moving to Chicago rotts your brain.