Gun violence lands US lowest life expectancy among rich nations

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    Maybe we should stop importing the world's criminals. We could defend our borders. And we could get tough on gang-on-gang violence. But what would be the fun of that? If we eliminated thug-on-thug crime I bet we would be at about the same murder rate as any other place.

    The places that are the worst to live in are the places that have been controlled by Democrats for a very long time. Liberalism, like its twin brother socialism, always fails the people it claims to love and protect.
     
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    Cars that meet the governments fuel standards are, in fact designed to kill you. The additional deaths that result from cars made lighter to meet idiotic government fuel standards kill more people than long guns do.

    If what's his name in the White House really wanted to save one child he would overturn decades of government fuel standards. Tens of thousands would be saved.
     
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    Define 'liberal', in three sentences.
     
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    Gorilla Sales Skyrocket After Latest Gorilla Attack



    http://www.theonion.com/articles/gorilla-sales-skyrocket-after-latest-gorilla-attac,30860/
     
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    Murder murder murder murder murder. You think I am talking about drunken driving or incest, forelock-tugger?
     
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    I, like you, don't know what you're raving about.

    forelock-tugger, is that some silly colloquialism from the minor, unimportant countries?
     
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    If there's such a correalation, how come violence has decreased in the US over the past twenty years despite the overturning of the assault weapons ban and increasing gun ownership? The US has always had more homicide than other countries, both by guns and not by guns. How can you blame guns for the higher rate of non-gun murders? You can't just look at a few cherry-picked statistics; you need to look at the big picture.

    Who does the checking? The most well-armed institution in the history of planet Earth. Gun control isn't anti-violence; it empowers the government's monopoly on violence.
     
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    And we might also mention that the USA has thousands, maybe tens of thousands of gun control laws in place NOW. Some of the toughest, and probably unconstitutional gun laws are in Chicago. And we know how fabulously well that is working. We need to address the problem, people, crazy people, not the tools they use.
     
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    It means a grovelling peasant who can't think for himself and obeys his masters like a drunken clown, probably. What you call a Republican in your colonial dialect, I think.
     
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    Or a citizen in yours.

    In any case, I'm not a Republican. I once was a Democrat, but came to my senses before it was too late.
     
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    http://cavnews.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/five-year-old-girl-suspended-for-terroristic-threat-to-shoot-classmates-with-pink-bubble-gun/

    Five year old suspended and called a terrorist for saying she was going to shoot her friend with a bubble gun! C'mon people! Is it getting so bad that kids can't play cowboys & indians or cops & robbers anymore? Most of us grew up playing these games but not very many of us are acting like terrorist or shooting anybody.

    Granted! We need to figure out ways to stop the crazies but we don't need to ruin are kids childhood by doing it. I hope this school is flooded with letters protesting this treatment of a five year old girl.

    From some of the posts in this thread, I would have to wonder if one of the members is the teacher who started this little girls problems.
     

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