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Re: Saturday Legal Briefs

Jan 13, 2013, 01:09

StreetPreacher

PropheT wrote on Jan 12, 2013, 23:17: NewMaxx wrote on Jan 12, 2013, 22:50: What was the statistic? Oh right...more people were killed last year by bludgeoning than guns in this country. Um...bullshit. Not for last year, but you get the idea that it isn't even a LITTLE close: FBI Expanded homicide statistics for 2007-2011 I seem to remember the quote you're talking about somewhere, though, and they didn't say "guns" they said a specific type of rifle. Assault rifles. More people are killed each year by bludgeoning (and bicycles, interestingly enough) than are killed w/ assault rifles, which comprise a fraction of 1% of homicides.

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Comment [quote="StreetPreacher"Jan 13, 2013, 01:09][quote="PropheT"Jan 12, 2013, 23:17][quote="NewMaxx"Jan 12, 2013, 22:50]What was the statistic? Oh right...more people were killed last year by bludgeoning than guns in this country. [/quote] Um...bullshit. Not for last year, but you get the idea that it isn't even a LITTLE close: [url=http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8]FBI Expanded homicide statistics for 2007-2011[/url] I seem to remember the quote you're talking about somewhere, though, and they didn't say "guns" they said a specific type of rifle. [/quote] Assault rifles. More people are killed each year by bludgeoning (and bicycles, interestingly enough) than are killed w/ assault rifles, which comprise a fraction of 1% of homicides. [/quote]

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