How about buying American.
HOW MANY CHILDREN NEED TO DIE BEFORE GUN LAWS CHANGE IN THE USA
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How about buying American.
It's like a Mexican standoff in here
xavlamenace
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As long as people have the slightest interest nothing moves but when the fridge is empty then the earth starts to shake,thank or curse the vultures they have an insatiable appetite !
Three Berries
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The stat in the US is inclusive of suicide. The more pertinent comparison is total murder/homicide rate
Threeberries this is 20 years old. An epidemic has happened since then.
The stat in the US is inclusive of suicide. The more pertinent comparison is total murder/homicide rate
No not tobacco. No not opiates. Guns. This epidemic is guns.
Oh sorry @Three Berries thought it said chilwilli 
moose eater
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Up until about 1937 you could walk into a Western Auto Hardware in many places and purchase a Thompson Submachinegun over the counter, with no permits required.
When I bought my first class III select-fire weapon in the early 1980s, at that time, the only time a properly registered, 1968-NFA-compliant selective-fire class III weapon had been used in the commision of a violent felony, involved an off-duty cop wasting his spouse.
But cops are also known to have elevated rates of DV issues, as well as alcohol issues; especially back then..
Just sayin'..
When I bought my first class III select-fire weapon in the early 1980s, at that time, the only time a properly registered, 1968-NFA-compliant selective-fire class III weapon had been used in the commision of a violent felony, involved an off-duty cop wasting his spouse.
But cops are also known to have elevated rates of DV issues, as well as alcohol issues; especially back then..
Just sayin'..
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moose eater
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Alaska has few restrictions on concealed OR open carry (other than inherent federal and state laws governing felons possessing firearms, carrying in bars, etc.), and is among the top states for violent crime, including DV, rape/sexual assault, and aggravated assault, etc.
The stat in the US is inclusive of suicide. The more pertinent comparison is total murder/homicide rate
And we're certainly mostly a rural State.
Kinda' flies in the face of that whole, "An armed society is a more polite society" rap, as well as blaming the gun violence on race and cities.. Just not true.
If you translate raw data into per capita numbers, rural America is no Nirvana or safe haven of peace and justice. But 'we've' been through that dozens of times. Probably go through those stats dozens more. And those who see nothing wrong with our current situation other than to blame it on someone else, will continue on their path.
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RobFromTX
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Wasilla still keeping the crime rates up.
Man that was about the most standoffish place i went to when i was up there. I felt like i was on the set of some bodysnatchers film
moose eater
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Sarah Palin's town of Wasilla, the place where Baptists, Born-Again Fundamentalists, Meth cooks and tweakers all, strangely enough, seem to view the world through the same or similar weird lens, is still a bastion of violent felonious behavior.Wasilla still keeping the crime rates up.
But really, the whole State has a rep. We just like to blame it on others.
35 years ago a fellow who used to run a hydroponics store here (Mat Valley; 300 miles to my south) had broken down on the Sterling Hwy, north of Sterling, near the Kenai Peninsula Moose Refuge. Pretty rural. He went to get fuel and or tools, and when he returned, his truck had been torched.
Hundreds, thousands of stories of property crimes and violent offenses in this rural State.
The meth 'epidemic' and easily harvested catalytic converters hasn't helped, either.
Three Berries
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Just need to zero in on the cities. Legal gun ownership a problem?
moose eater
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Raw data is the tool of bait and switch games, and/or the unaware, whether willfully unaware, or just plain naive.
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xavlamenace
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Gun Control Act of 1968 still in the future. while most companies did it anyway, guns were not required to have serial numbers until then. Minute Market near me sold .22 LR ammo loose in a bowl by the register.
You always "forget" to post a link so no one can check your dodgy links.
The stat in the US is inclusive of suicide. The more pertinent comparison is total murder/homicide rate
This tells a different story.
How many US mass shootings have there been in 2023?
Explaining some of the key statistics behind gun ownership and attacks linked to guns in the US.
www.bbc.com
One thing I will agree is that I think the issue is more to do with culture than guns, however the notion that you can simply arm more people as a deterrent seems very flawed to me. Personally happy to live somewhere where very few own guns.
have there been any more since then? i've not heard. lots of "ghost guns" in the news, nobody that went through the process.
moose eater
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Where? what? how? Me not comprehend."error message appears here"
xavlamenace
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It's rather the opposite ,it's because almost no one has a weapon that we feel reassured !
Three Berries
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People won't buy guns if they feel safe.You always "forget" to post a link so no one can check your dodgy links.
This tells a different story.
How many US mass shootings have there been in 2023?
Explaining some of the key statistics behind gun ownership and attacks linked to guns in the US.
One thing I will agree is that I think the issue is more to do with culture than guns, however the notion that you can simply arm more people as a deterrent seems very flawed to me. Personally happy to live somewhere where very few own guns.
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