From the FBI's website, we can find the number of children between the ages of 0-5 who have been murdered with firearms.
A clear reading reveals that children's deaths are not primarily by firearm, but rather from personal attack or "unknown."
To save the children, we probably should ban all knives, blunt objects, personal items that could be used to hit like, presumably, hands, since hands are a weapon used to beat a child.
Probably the best way to save the children is to not have any.
But the abortion friendly crowd is already working on that angle.
Huh.
Funny we've yet to hear the save the children rationale used to prevent abortion.
Here's the chart from the FBI website:
FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports: 1980-2010 Table: Year of incident by Weapon used for United States Selecting: Age of victim = 0 to 5
Object
Count Firearm Knife BluntPersonal Other Total
1980 63 38 40 272 200 614
1981 49 34 56 264 192 595
1982 79 38 56 307 190 670
1983 47 41 41 300 200 629
1984 68 40 43 288 154 593
1985 65 56 35 266 175 597
1986 64 39 48 352 222 725
1987 54 34 44 289 224 643
1988 77 30 46 334 217 704
1989 84 41 37 313 236 711
1990 86 25 40 360 205 716
1991 82 27 46 390 266 810
1992 83 28 62 355 204 731
1993 99 24 61 394 236 815
1994 74 29 37 417 245 802
1995 90 21 38 376 235 760
1996 75 27 44 428 239 813
1997 67 18 39 358 207 689
1998 67 22 51 337 227 704
1999 66 23 52 298 211 650
2000 55 24 59 315 172 624
2001 71 19 39 341 212 681
2002 69 16 35 310 189 620
2003 56 22 43 324 201 645
2004 50 23 51 291 194 609
2005 48 25 48 294 191 606
2006 54 21 50 295 205 625
2007 56 18 48 317 202 642
2008 60 23 60 310 225 677
2009 68 15 66 278 161 588
2010 58 29 55 275 193 611
Total 2084 868 1473 10045 6428 20898
As a Tea Party member from the very beginning of the movement, I believe we conservatives brought this upon ourselves.
ReplyDeleteAs a former member of the Military, I believe that people should have to go through extensive training to be gun owners (though I do think that there should be many ways for citizens to get this training). What this looks like to me is that our resistance to background checks, and preserving loopholes to it so large you could drive a Mac truck through, are finally coming back to bite our rights in the butt.
And trying to keep all firearms treated 'equally' was also a huge mistake. Handguns are one thing, but if you want to own a military weapon privately, you should have to pass a military-style tactical training equivalent to do so.
I could go on (I also think magazines for civilian use have no reason to be more than a dozen rounds each), but I think most of you get the point. The almost inevitable, unreasonable, impending "assault" weapon ban was brought on entirely by our own stupidity.
I don't disagree with some of your thoughts. I'm not sure, to be serious, that Obama's really serious about much of this, considering he's put the Vice Doofus in charge who in 2008 declared Obama would not take his Baretta.
ReplyDeleteWhat disgusts me about all this, considering that overall violent crime has gone down as more law abiding people have obtained weapons, is that it is an emotional appeal that is completely irrelevant to the real problems.
Thanks for your input.