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Category: Gun Ownership
From 2000 through 2007, inclusively, approximately 780 thousand people in the United States took a bullet. Most of them were wounded by another person in an act of violence. A fairly large number were wounded by accident, killed by a bad guy, or killed themselves....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:06 PM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
Because you wanted to know: First observation: Far more men are killed in this manner than women. Boys with their toys. Presumably, women are being killed by something else. Second observation: There may be a trend towards decreasing rates of death by accident involving firearms....
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:07 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
Since this came up I thought you might like to see the data. NOTES: It would be interesting to look at the ratio of fatal to non fatal over long time spans (before/during/after transition to high quality trauma treatment in the US); I would like...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:35 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
Yet the 11-year old girl lies in a coma, the bullet removed from her brain on Friday, with a poor prognosis....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:40 AM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: teabagginig morons
Two local stories you might be interested in from my neighborhood. First, a girl high school wrestler advanced yesterday but was beaten today in the state tournament in Iowa. Why is this interesting? Well, first, this is not a girl wrestling on a girl's team....
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:50 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
We all know it to be true. There are only two punishments: Unemployment or death!
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:34 PM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
... they weren't scared, but the guy trying to rob them sure was. ... Wally was sitting at his computer when the man entered his home. "He just stood there in that doorway, standing there with a shovel," said Wally. "I thought, 'what the hell...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:01 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
And most of them are boys with their toys...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:57 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
Since he is a minor his name has been withheld. The 14 year old boy in South Carolina called the police to tell them that he had attacked his father, his grandmother, and his great aunt. He told the police he'd be there when they...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:59 PM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
Gun nuts in the Arizona State Legislature have introduced what they insensitively and stupidly call the Gifford-Zimmerman act, named after the wounded Congresswoman Gifford and her slain aid, requiring the state to train politicians and their staff as part of the process of arming them....
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