OPINION: A Nation Gone Gun Crazy: Young Children Shooting Machine Guns

By Freedom States Alliance , Working to Prevent Gun Violence - December 08, 2008

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We are a nation that is out of step with other industrialized countries when it comes to the issue of kids and guns. While most nations recognize that absolutely no good can come of exposing children to guns at a young age, we live in a gun culture that promotes romantic notions of generations of families hunting and shooting together. In light of the recent tragic death of an 8-year-old boy, Christopher Bizilj, who unintentionally killed himself while shooting an Uzi at the Westfield ... Read the Full Article
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A little more recent, still too easy.
  • Pottering
    Still too easy? You couldn't get it right first time!

    You obviously have an aversion to the latest available data don't you? First it was 12 year old data, but when that was exposed you switched to 5 year old data.

    At least you recognise a good overall result when it is before your eyes, a 7.3% decline.

    You ask "a handgun could of stopped a rape or two? ", but answer me this. Of the 291,000 rape/attempted rape/sexual assaults in the US in 2005 what per cent of victims attacked or threatened the offender with a weapon (according to DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States tables)? No, don't bother answering, I'll tell you; 0.0%!

    So YOU reckon that despite a country with much more liberal gun laws than Australia reporting 0.0% of weapon defense against rape/attempted rape/sexual assault, in Australia we might have benefited if guns had been involved! Pull the other one.

    Here's a possibly more telling stat; in those 291,000 rape/attempted rape/sexual assaults firearms were used by the perpetrators in 6.5% of incidents.

    0.0% using guns as defense against rape/attempted rape/sexual assault, but 6.5% using them to commit rape/attempted rape/sexual assault (according to DOJ). It seems pretty clear the role guns play in rape in the US, it's all one way traffic! In Australia they play essentially no part, and never have. I'm not that keen we emulate your performance.

    - PotteringAU February 19, 2009 5:43AM

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