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As I posted in Vendzilla's thread earlier.
And all you guys call yourself webmasters lol! Enough with all the yapping.
Almost EVERY study undertaken admits that tough or lenient gun laws are tertiary considerations to population density and poverty as predictors of murder rates.
Further, the below data show just how small firearm crime is when compared to every other cause of death as reported by the FBI. But dont let the facts get in the way of your argument. Read the data, it is freely available and ANY 'webmaster' should they have a modicum of sense to find it, IF they really wish to.
Data from FBI Crimes and Statistics annual reports 2001-2011 (within the last 10 mins).
Murder by firearm (not including US Virgin Islands)
2001 - 8890
2002 - 9528
2003 - 9659
2004 - 9326
2005 - 10100
2006 - 10177
2007 - 10086
2008 - 9484
2009 - 9146
2010 - 8734
2011 - 8552 lowest since 1981
If you REALLY want to see a major decline in total firearm deaths, cure depression as 64% of ALL firearm deaths (not murder) are suicides.
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