Guns in Australia

[dbk]

Gun control is all about what makes a sensational news story.

In 2004, 10,654 people were killed in homicides using a gun in the U.S.
In 2004, 42,836 people were killed in automobile accidents in the U.S.

I understand that they are totally different in that we can't stop driving from place to place. But in alot of states you have to jump through hoops to get a handgun (which are used in ~80% of said reported homicides). Most states you can't carry without substantial troubles. But we'll give any jackass who shows up at the door a drivers license.

Gun deaths in 1991 were 16,378.
Gun deaths in 2004 were 10,654.

Automobile deaths in their total number have remained relatively constant even though vehicles have gotten dramatically safer during the same period of time. Deaths per 100 million miles have dropped, but automobile deaths still DWARF gun deaths. Yet which one is front page news?

Are we outlawing cars? Nope. I wonder if that's because cars don't kill people, drivers do...hmm...is there a parallel to be drawn here...

:bored

 

[dbk]

p.s, I wonder how many of those 10,646 deaths were caused by guns obtained legally :bored

 

[dbk]

p.p.s

Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez 23 and Enrico Garza 26, probably believed they would easily overpower a home alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two story home.


It seems the two crooks never learned two things, they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine. Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.


Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buck shot from the 11 year olds knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals. When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.


It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. The victim, 50 year old David Burien, was not so lucky as he died from stab wounds to the chest.

 

[californiacuda]

Warning to all you thiefs listening. DON'T GO A ROBBIN IN MONTANA!!!!!!!

 

[californiacuda]

Ops, I reread DBK's post. Maybe I should have put my warning in Spanglish.

 

[californiacuda]

In Califonia she may have been arrested. Sounds like the second guy was trying to get out of the house, so deadly force was not needed at that moment.

 

[Empty Pockets]

In Califonia she may have been arrested. Sounds like the second guy was trying to get out of the house, so deadly force was not needed at that moment.

It's doubtful even the people in Cali-FOOL-nia would have convicted her of any thing because of her age ... well, maybe littering. ( Still, it wouldn't have surprised me even though the kid would pbly never have been aware of that part of the law. "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." Ya. Right.)

I'm reminded of Archy Bunker's line in an episode of "All in the Family" where he and his daughter were arguing about the number of people killed by guns every year, blah, blah. He said, "Would yuhz feel beddah lil' goyl if they wuz tossed outta windahs?" Amen, Archy.

If an unloaded gun were placed on a table beside a box of shells and left alone, that gun would sit there 'til the end of time - or until it rusted away - and never kill a single person. It can't load itself, aim itself, or pull it's own trigger. IT TAKES A PERSON TO DO ALL THAT. Yet, the loons on the left blame the gun.

("GUN CONTROL" IS A TIGHT GROUP.)