This last one didn't use an AR-15,and besides,any Firearm,or any Weapon is deadly if applied properly,even a Butterknife,and so are Pressure-Cookers!
Beware of those infamous Assault-Rocks!

<<A law enforcement source said that the shooting suspect legally purchased recently the two weapons used in the attack at the shooting center in Port St. Lucie near his Fort Pierce home. He had a Glock 17 handgun purchased on June 5, a Sigsauer MCX assault rifle purchased on June 4 on his person during the shootout, and investigators later found a .38-caliber weapon in his vehicle.

Owens noted that the rifle Mateen bought “has no major parts that interface with AR-15s in any way, shape, or form”:

The rifle used by the Islamist terrorist in Orlando was instead a Sig Sauer MCX carbine, a modular, multi-caliber (able to swap to different calibers, including 5.56 NATO, 300 BLK, and 7.62×39) rifle system that sometimes utilizes STANAG magazines common to more than 60 different firearms, but otherwise has no major parts that interface with AR-15s in any way, shape or form.

This of course will make no difference at all to the anti-gun politimedia, who don’t particularly care about factual accuracy and who likely wouldn’t be able to tell an AR-15 from a toaster oven if their lives depended on it.<<

and he held it legally!

If you look at the actual causes of death and injury in the US, it seems that changing the number of guns on the street isn't likely to have much effect on *my* personal risk.

Not sure that's entirely true... as a collective part of the general populace, the odds of your azz getting shot up goes up with every weapon sold

""A couple of new studies reveal the gun-control hypesters’ worst nightmare…more people are buying firearms, while firearm-related homicides and suicides are steadily diminishing. What crackpots came up with these conclusions? One set of statistics was compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice. The other was reported by the Pew Research Center .
According to DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. gun-related homicides dropped 39 percent over the course of 18 years, from 18,253 during 1993, to 11,101 in 2011. During the same period, non-fatal firearm crimes decreased even more, a whopping 69 percent

Last December, the FBI recorded a record number of 2.78 million background checks for purchases that month, surpassing a 2.01 million mark set the month before by about 39 percent. That December 2012 figure, in turn, was up 49 percent from a previous record on that month the year before. FBI checks for all of 2012 totaled 19.6 million, an annual record, and an increase of 19 percent over 2011.""
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/05/14/disarming-realities-as-gun-sales-soar-gun-crimes-plummet/#1dc8812d7de9

It's pretty simple math kind of like more apples means more apple juice?

I hope you get it now

Comparing the U.S. and Australia using gunpolicy.org

liberal camouflage... cars get safer, guns don't change... not a very good comparison...

What we need in in this country is a I.Q. test to be able to own a gun! All rednecks would never be allowed to own a gun! What a pity!!!!!

Well let's take a look at the messenger....

""Interests: gardening, fishing, camping, cooking, fleamarkets, SEX!!""

....seems you qualify.

Last edit for attacking other members.

soufie
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Hope I get what? You said increases in guns increases gun deaths. I showed you evidence from the DOJ that's shows guns ownership increasing and gun deaths decreasing. Here I'll show you again....

""A couple of new studies reveal the gun-control hypesters’ worst nightmare…more people are buying firearms, while firearm-related homicides and suicides are steadily diminishing. What crackpots came up with these conclusions? One set of statistics was compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice. The other was reported by the Pew Research Center .
According to DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. gun-related homicides dropped 39 percent over the course of 18 years, from 18,253 during 1993, to 11,101 in 2011. During the same period, non-fatal firearm crimes decreased even more, a whopping 69 percent

Last December, the FBI recorded a record number of 2.78 million background checks for purchases that month, surpassing a 2.01 million mark set the month before by about 39 percent. That December 2012 figure, in turn, was up 49 percent from a previous record on that month the year before. FBI checks for all of 2012 totaled 19.6 million, an annual record, and an increase of 19 percent over 2011.""
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/05/14/disarming-realities-as-gun-sales-soar-gun-crimes-plummet/#1dc8812d7de9

....I had no problem 'getting that' at all. Listen again.....Gun sales have increased and gun crimes have decreased. ....it isn't disputable. But go ahead anyway if ya want.

1) Its exactly because my risk is relative to that of the general public that I make my claim.

2) It is fantastically stupid to assume that the *actual* odds of my getting shot increase with each weapon sold. The odds of my *actually* drowning do not increase every time a pool is installed, nor do the odds of my getting hit by a car change in any meaningful way every time a car is sold. Once again you've illustrated a lack of solid reasoning while pushing your anti-gun agenda.

3) As I said - and as your own poster charts indicate - the number of guns on the street does not have much effect on my personal risk.

EACH of the following causes of death pose a GREATER risk than guns do: car accidents, falls, poisoning or drug overdose, vehicle accidents, stroke, cancer and heart disease.

In some cases, the ratio of risk is well over an order of magnitude.

So, like I said: Increasing the number of guns on the street has really no meaningful bearing on my personal risk. Its insane to think otherwise. Its like when 9/11 happened and a lot of people were personally *afraid* of terrorists - its not at all logical.

You seem to be quite devoted to your position on guns. Good luck with that.

I'm more worried about city folks getting their first gun after their first mugging.

Country folks grow up with guns, they know how to handle them, know how to treat them with respect and caution.

Sure, there is a tiny but visible handful of young male idiots who ride around drunk in their pickups shooting... #notallrednecks

That's funny, the country folk worried about the city folk getting weapons

The stats are clear, you're on pace and headed for 12000 gun related fatalities this year. More guns, more death!

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

That sounds like one for every thirty thousand people. We should be more afraid of obesity and cars.

That number probably also includes deaths in warring gangs.

And in those cases where an aggressor threatens an innocent person's life (with a knife, gun, or otherwise), and the aggressor is shot - that fatality is added to that tally... without consideration for the lives that were saved.