[Vision2020] How many more rounds are we going to let this go on for?

[Paul Rumelhart]

If people are so worried about guns, then why aren't we talking about 
handguns?  Handgun-related homicides are much more frequent than "long 
gun" related ones, by an order of magnitude (6501 vs. 774 in 2009), 
according to gunpolicy.org 
(http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states).  Not every 
rifle-related homicide is a spree shooting, either.

Not that I want the gun control advocates to go there, mind you, but 
that would at least make sense.  Otherwise, I have to conclude that it's 
the sensationalism of a spree shooting that has everybody incensed.  I 
guess nobody gets fired up about the 17 (on average) people of all ages 
that are killed by handguns every day in the U.S., probably because it 
doesn't dominate the media for months at a time every time it happens, 
like we see with spree shootings.

Paul

On 04/10/2013 06:20 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:
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> http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qFH1MtYhszs
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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