Big Gun

Honestly, I could care less if his name is on the WOF or not. It's not going to change history of what he did so in the end I don't give a rats if his name is up there or not.

I've seen this before and thought this might be a good place to share since the weekend events. There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. The U.S. population is 324,059,091 as of June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.00925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death: • 65% of those deaths are by suicide, which would never be prevented by gun laws. • 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified. • 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – better known as gun violence. • 3% are accidental discharge deaths. So technically, "gun violence" is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Now lets look at how those deaths spanned across the nation. • 480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago • 344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore • 333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit • 119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years) So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause. This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 and Alabama had 1. Now, who has the strictest gun laws by far? California, of course, but understand, it is not guns causing this. It is a crime rate spawned by the number of criminal persons residing in those cities and states. So if all cities and states are not created equal, then there must be something other than the tool causing the gun deaths. Are 5,100 deaths per year horrific? How about in comparison to other deaths? All death is sad and especially so when it is in the commission of a crime but that is the nature of crime. Robbery, death, rape, assault are all done by criminals. It is ludicrous to think that criminals will obey laws. That is why they are called criminals. But what about other deaths each year? • 40,000+ die from a drug overdose–THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THAT! • 36,000 people die per year from the flu, far exceeding the criminal gun deaths. • 34,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities(exceeding gun deaths even if you include suicide). Now it gets good: • 200,000+ people die each year (and growing) from preventable medical errors. You are safer walking in the worst areas of Chicago than you are when you are in a hospital! • 710,000 people die per year from heart disease. It’s time to stop the double cheeseburgers! So what is the point? If the liberals and the anti-gun movement focused their attention on heart disease, even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths would save twice the number of lives annually of all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law enforcement, etc.). A 10% reduction in medical errors would be 66% of the total number of gun deaths or 4 times the number of criminal homicides ................ Simple, easily preventable 10% reductions! So you have to ask yourself, in the grand scheme of things, why the focus on guns? It's pretty simple: Taking away guns gives control to governments. The founders of this nation knew that regardless of the form of government, those in power may become corrupt and seek to rule as the British did by trying to disarm the populace of the colonies. It is not difficult to understand that a disarmed populace is a controlled populace. Thus, the second amendment was proudly and boldly included in the U.S. Constitution. It must be preserved at all costs. So the next time someone tries to tell you that gun control is about saving lives, look at these facts and remember these words from Noah Webster: "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed." It’s not the lack of laws, it’s lack of Morality."

The op is ragging on someones opinion because it differs from his original post, which was opinion, too funny!

And if the oline was looking tremendously good, your retort would be concern for the dline as Oliver was our 1st pick. To this I say whatever, it's only a couple of days into camp!

Wish I could give you a 1000 thumbs up!

No it's not!

He sure did and the Barr is investigating the sources of this whole sham was great.

He also seems a bit nervous to me, like he is hiding something.

8-8 this year is on the fence for keeping McD and I do think he is retained but 8-8 again next year and he is a goner.

Why? He's not better than Brown, Foster, Beasley or Jones.

223K people are talking about this Shut up Justin and go back to your own country!

She needs to go asap if that is true.

Yes sir, born and raised Rochester west side.

And to think dummies out there defend her!

Hmmm......she illegally gained citizenship to the US, she is anti American, she is secretly raising funds for IsIs terrorist groups and whatever else anti USA she partakes in. Why would she want to become part of the US political scene? What is her real agenda? and liberals everywhere voted and still defend this idiot. Kick her the eff out, she absolutely does not have the USA as her best interest. I think she may be a muslim mole or plant. I wish Trump could find espionage info about her!

Hmmmm...... this is interesting. https://neonnettle.com/news/6487-democrats-consider-eliminating-ocasio-cortez-s-new-york-district-in-2020

I just watched this, she is a real joke. She has no business being in congress. Was very pleasing watching an intelligent competent knowledgeable person put here in her place and leave her speechless. She's dumb, she needs to go after her term is up.

Geary is an idiot! Don't like him one bit! It's hard to admit but I can stand Schopp better than I can stand this dummy!

So you are saying you go for the party and the atmosphere of the event not the team itself. Gotcha! Me I root for the team and would go to their games if they were on the moon, or a mile underground, I wouldn't give a rats ass what they played in I'm still going to be there cheering them on! That said give me a building with a roof, I like being more comfortable than not.

Maybe for you.

You build it with a roof and people who don't want a roof will still go. You build it without a roof and the people who don't go because of the weather still won't go. The answer is simple, build it with a roof and everybody will go.

Because it has worked so well for the last 25 years. Just build it with a roof. Build it and they will come!

That is a baseball mph reader, can't even call it a radar gun because it isn't a gun, IDK what it is, handheld something I've never heard of and my son was a pitcher in college and i've used some different radar guns. Maybe it was Bradys golf ball off his tee shot.

Well, that's just absurdly wrong!

Other than games, I don't really watch other TV football stuff. No pregame No halftime No post game I do listen to some of the Bills pregame on GR Much rather read about it, watch a few highlight videos and converse about it. The TV personalities annoy me.