08-26-2015, 12:52 PM
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Let's do some business!
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Originally Posted by EonBlue
No, not really. My point is that those countries don't have the same problems with gangs that the US has. If they did their gun homicide rates would be similar. It is not law abiding gun owners committing the majority of the gun crimes - it is gangs.
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http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_06.pdf
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a staggering 80% of gun homicides are gang-related. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), gang homicides accounted for roughly 8,900 of 11,100 gun murders in both 2010 and 2011. That means that there were just 2,200 non gang-related firearm murders in both years in a country of over 300 million people and 250 million guns.
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