Blues Man
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72.589%, to be more accurate, but either way, it's enough to be pretty scary.I'm sure when Tommy Jefferson wrote that, he went right home and fucked Sally Hemmings, proving the silliness of that thought.
Actually, 70% of murders are committed with guns.. so not so much. It's the great length we take to protect ourselves from the nuts with guns... The prisons, the security state, militarized police... Our solutions are worse than the problem.
11000 people murdered by someone with a gun
330000000 people in the country
.003% chance of getting murdered by a person with a gun
99.997% chance of not getting murdered by a person with a gun
Sounds pretty fucking safe to me
If you think it's that safe, why do gun nuts feel the need to be armed 24-7?
Because that only applies to being murdered with a gun and not stabbed, or beaten with a bat etc etc etc
And I know what it's like to be the victim of a violent crime where guns were not used.I still ended up in the hospital with cracked ribs, a grade 3 concussion, a fractured eye orbital that was almost bad enough for me to lose my left eye and permanently affected my vision and a lacerated spleen that had to be removed
All that damage and no gun was used just one thug with a bike chain wrapped around his fist and two other thugs kicking me with steel toed boots
There is real violence in this world and that has nothing to do with the unlikelihood of getting murdered by a person with a gun
I'll bet you didn't run your head nearly as often after that, did you? If you think you are safe from guns when 72.5% use guns, then you should feel really safe with the 27.5% that's left over.
Even with 70% of murders where a gun is used my chance of getting murdered by a person with a gun is still .003%