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Gun Control & RKBA

Human101948

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1. Because gunz make our country is a bad joke...

Reply to beevul (Original post)

Sat Jan 16, 2016, 05:03 PM

Jan 2016

A number of gun advocates consider ownership a birthright and an essential part of the nation's heritage. The United States, with less than 5 percent of the world's population, has about 35–50 percent of the world's civilian-owned guns, according to a 2007 report by the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey. It ranks number one in firearms per capita. The United States also has the highest homicide-by-firearm rate among the world's most developed nations.

http://www.cfr.org/society-and-culture/us-gun-policy-global-comparisons/p29735

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Nebraska eyes preemption. [View all] beevul Jan 2016 OP

Because gunz make our country is a bad joke... Human101948 Jan 2016 #1

Do you have a comment relevant to the article linked to in the OP? friendly_iconoclast Jan 2016 #2

Oh my God, I am cut to the quick. Human101948 Jan 2016 #5

More an editorial 'we', I suppose. Nonetheless, the question remains... friendly_iconoclast Jan 2016 #6

And still without recognition of an obsessive complusive culture... Human101948 Jan 2016 #7

A propensity for threadjacking, along with a unearned sense of self-importance? friendly_iconoclast Jan 2016 #8

You love it. It gives you a chance to bloviate and feel superior... Human101948 Jan 2016 #9

The gibes of the politically ineffectual carry no sting friendly_iconoclast Jan 2016 #14

just another one that the only thing Duckhunter935 Jan 2016 #10

Only because you hate 'gunz'. beevul Jan 2016 #3

As Washington said: discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #11

We're #1, we're #1! DonP Jan 2016 #4

Constitutional rights are our birthrights. Nt hack89 Jan 2016 #13

The only joke is what passes wind for a gun-control "movement." Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #15

We have preemption here in Oregon, save for one aspect (open carry). Lizzie Poppet Jan 2016 #12