Yes you racist fuck most guns are obtained legally but mot guns used in crimes are obtained ILLEGALLY
Again, one more time, every time there's a mass shooting, the person who did the shooting had no problem getting a legal gun. Loughner, Holmes, Cho, Cruz... all walked into gun stores, put down a pile of greasy bills and got themselves a nice arsenal of death.
And shit, you guys want to get rid of FOID cards... one of the few restraints on cra-crays getting guns.
Yes...in a country of 320 million people, with over 600 million guns in private hands and over 17.25 million people carrying guns for self defense....
We had a total of 11 mass public shootings in 2017.....11. A total of 117 people killed, and that was an unusual year.
2018...12 shooters.... 93 killed....
Cars killed 38,000 people.....knives over 1,500........
The FOID cards don't stop the actual criminals who do all of the shooting except for the 117 from mass public shootings.....you know, the other 10,982 that were killed by criminals who ignored the FOID laws....
First of all, you keep referring to figures from Kleck. His figures, why the accuracy is suspect, let's say that the totals are fairly close. Let's say for argument sake that there are 17.1 million licensed CCW holders. The problem is, you assume all of them are carrying at the same time. In reality, about 3 mil are actually carrying at any given time. Here is why.
Do you go dancing with your gun? Is this a good idea? Ask a FBI agent about this. There are so many things that you really can't safely or legally carry your weapon. For instance, tomarrow, I am working on the neighbors truck. If I were to have the weapon, the damned thing would hook up on just about everything. You see, I have this invisible little man that walks around and does strange things to me like that, or at least it seems that way. I just got back from a parts run. If I felt the need to carry to do the parts run, I would not to the place that I felt the need to be armed. There are just too many places that don't require that. And just because it's not posted as a gun free zone doesn't mean that it's a gun zone. Most business will ask you to please leave your gun in your car if you are open carrying. It spooks many of the customers. Then there is the Post Office stop or visit the local Schools, IRS, etc.. Having a CCW doesn't mean that you MUST have your gun on you at all times and most don't. I forget where I saw the 3 mil number but it sounds about right.
Now for the CDC report that you keep saying that you are quoting. I found it and it doesn't say what either you nor Kleck says it does. And it goes until 2017 so let's use 2017 figures.
https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D76;jsessionid=408D66EFF178CB07FC712D81D4373CEF
2017 Unintentional 486 325,719,178 0.1 0.2
Suicide 23,854 325,719,178 7.3 6.9
Homicide 14,542 325,719,178 4.5 4.6
Undetermined 338 325,719,178 0.1 0.1
Legal Intervention / Operations of War 553 325,719,178 0.2 0.2
Total 39,773 325,719,178 12.2 12.0
Yes you racist fuck most guns are obtained legally but mot guns used in crimes are obtained ILLEGALLY
Again, one more time, every time there's a mass shooting, the person who did the shooting had no problem getting a legal gun. Loughner, Holmes, Cho, Cruz... all walked into gun stores, put down a pile of greasy bills and got themselves a nice arsenal of death.
And shit, you guys want to get rid of FOID cards... one of the few restraints on cra-crays getting guns.
Yes...in a country of 320 million people, with over 600 million guns in private hands and over 17.25 million people carrying guns for self defense....
We had a total of 11 mass public shootings in 2017.....11. A total of 117 people killed, and that was an unusual year.
2018...12 shooters.... 93 killed....
Cars killed 38,000 people.....knives over 1,500........
The FOID cards don't stop the actual criminals who do all of the shooting except for the 117 from mass public shootings.....you know, the other 10,982 that were killed by criminals who ignored the FOID laws....
First of all, you keep referring to figures from Kleck. His figures, why the accuracy is suspect, let's say that the totals are fairly close. Let's say for argument sake that there are 17.1 million licensed CCW holders. The problem is, you assume all of them are carrying at the same time. In reality, about 3 mil are actually carrying at any given time. Here is why.
Do you go dancing with your gun? Is this a good idea? Ask a FBI agent about this. There are so many things that you really can't safely or legally carry your weapon. For instance, tomarrow, I am working on the neighbors truck. If I were to have the weapon, the damned thing would hook up on just about everything. You see, I have this invisible little man that walks around and does strange things to me like that, or at least it seems that way. I just got back from a parts run. If I felt the need to carry to do the parts run, I would not to the place that I felt the need to be armed. There are just too many places that don't require that. And just because it's not posted as a gun free zone doesn't mean that it's a gun zone. Most business will ask you to please leave your gun in your car if you are open carrying. It spooks many of the customers. Then there is the Post Office stop or visit the local Schools, IRS, etc.. Having a CCW doesn't mean that you MUST have your gun on you at all times and most don't. I forget where I saw the 3 mil number but it sounds about right.
Now for the CDC report that you keep saying that you are quoting. I found it and it doesn't say what either you nor Kleck says it does. And it goes until 2017 so let's use 2017 figures.
https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D76;jsessionid=408D66EFF178CB07FC712D81D4373CEF
Unintentional 486
Suicide 23,854
Homicide 14,542
Undetermined 338
Legal Intervention /
Operations of War 553
Total 39,773
Now, let's remove Legal Intervention and War for a new total of 39230. The real figures means that more people are killed by guns than cars. And that's is according to that elusive CDC report you keep touting.
So, the CDC report does exist. It just doesn't say what your heroes say it does. They haven't given a good url to it to hide that fact they have been lying out their asses all these years.