Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Demand a Plan

Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns. That’s 48,000 Americans during the next presidential term.
Too often, the people pulling the trigger are able to buy guns because of gaps in our broken background check system. The shooter at Virginia Tech was a prohibited purchaser under the law, but he was able to buy the guns he used to kill 32 people because his mental health record was never submitted to the national database.
Five years after the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, new FBI data show that millions of records are still missing from the database. Every missing record is another tragedy waiting to happen.
Interactive Map

10 comments:

  1. Clearly, we need to deepen the red on that interactive map.

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  2. The mayors group just assumes that all states have the same rate of crazy people and base their performance off of that. I think it is safe to assume that states like California and New York have a much higher percentage of crazy people than states like Tennessee, Arkansas, North and South Dakota, etc. Therefore, I deem their "study" as a pile of junk in determining which states are performing better. In fact, the only real issue in the gun debate should be criminal use of guns. Why don't the mayors just rank the states based on the crime rates for guns? I am sure the data would show that the "best performing states" list would match up with the states that have the gun laws they desire and submit the mental records at the highest rates right?

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  3. Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns.

    This and their map is only slightly misleading.

    Vermont has a murder rate of 1.1/100K people and is listed as one of the worst, while California is listed one of the best with a murder rate of 4.9/100K people.

    From their site:Vermont
    27,292 gun background checks were conducted in Vermont in 2011 using this incomplete database, which fails to block gun sales to the millions of prohibited purchasers whose mental health records are not in the system.

    But Vermont only had 7 Homicides. MAIG is assuming that anyone with a mental health record is a prohibited person. They are also defining every 'gun death' as a murder and we all know that's not the case.

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    1. But murder isn't what the Mayors Against Guns care about. They hate private ownership of guns. It doesn't matter how safe a region is.

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    2. But they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, how can this be?

      On a positive note, Greg, I just got the Taurus Judge to go along with my Circuit Judge. Both are great and fun to shoot.

      For all you gun haters, I got both firearms online, with no background check, and had them delivered to me. I also ordered the ammo for them ONLINE.

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    3. Isn't freedom great, Bill? If only all gun transactions could be done as easily...

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  4. Actually, about 25 people died from gunshot wounds every day in 2011.

    How many armed citizens saved their lives every day in 2011 with their firearms? More importantly, how many armed citizens would have saved their lives and avoided brutal assaults every day in 2011 had most citizens been armed?

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  5. If they want to look at criminal rates, lets look at the number of MAIG members that are felons. If you do you'll find that if you are a member of MAIG you are 12 times more likely to be a felon than as just a member of the general population.

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    1. So you have a group of felons that wish to change the laws and disarm non-felons? Sounds like the felons want to control people. Wait! Isnt that what felons want to do in the first place??,, Control people?

      And they ask us to trust them. I dont think so!

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