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    What Is An Acceptable Amount of Gun Homicides?

    At present, the USA has roughly 11,000 gun homicides per year, the large majority of which are localized within cities controlled by Democrats. That translates to roughly 0.003% of the population. That seems really low, but apparently gun control advocates disagree.

    So at what point will gun control advocates be satisfied? 5,000? 1,000? 0?
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    You are forgetting all the suicides and accidents. They are part of the gun violence problem as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    You are forgetting all the suicides and accidents. They are part of the gun violence problem as well.
    Their life, their choice. Get over it. If somebody decides to perform a 4th term self abortion, who are you to prevent them?

    Stop trying to derail threads because you get spanked in other threads. Stick to the topic.

    This one is about an acceptable death toll.

    You are an example to other posters - act like it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    You are forgetting all the suicides and accidents. They are part of the gun violence problem as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    At present, the USA has roughly 11,000 gun homicides per year, the large majority of which are localized within cities controlled by Democrats. That translates to roughly 0.003% of the population. That seems really low, but apparently gun control advocates disagree.

    So at what point will gun control advocates be satisfied? 5,000? 1,000? 0?
    No gun homicides are acceptable, we know that is not realistic, I think the only answer can be is the least as possible.

    The most gun homicides are ironically the most controllable, Inner city gun deaths. Democrats dont even talk about it
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    I do not think you can just put a random number on it. Maybe the goal needs to be set annually or every 5 years and say "We want to try and decrease gun-related fatalities by X%" and try to find strategies that address the many issues that cause gun-related fatalities.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    I do not think you can just put a random number on it. Maybe the goal needs to be set annually or every 5 years and say "We want to try and decrease gun-related fatalities by X%" and try to find strategies that address the many issues that cause gun-related fatalities.
    Gun violence shouldn't be the goal.

    Violence or social dysfunction should be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    You are forgetting all the suicides and accidents. They are part of the gun violence problem as well.
    I did not forget them. I intentionally excluded them from the topic because I want to focus on homicides. If you want to discuss gun suicides, then start your own thread.
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