you say naught but word salad.
your degree in smartology will grant nothing to anyone. only blood, sweat and tears build homelands. if you'd ever worked a day in your life you'd know that, but you're too busy engaged in "other activities".
btw any indian who likes can live anywhere in...
none at all. there is no such thing as "in the USA", except in your pointy head social studies textbook.
"the uSA" is mostly empty space at all times, with nary a soul around.
in a few spots around these States, i might find 90% of all violence period.
all of the below never happened in just one march week.
http://gunssavelives.net/self-defense/video/video-abused-wife-in-va-shoots-husband-during-attack/
http://gunssavelives.net/self-defense/video/video-in-resident-shoots-and-kills-1-of-2-armed-robbers/...
A widely-known study conducted by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz in the 1990s found that there were somewhere between 830,000 and 2.45 million U.S. defensive gun uses annually. A National Crime Victimization Study (NCVS) which asked victims if they had used a gun in self-defense found that about...
some more wonkishness:
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.fourexamples.asp#times
* "In homes with guns, the homicide of a household member is almost 3 times more likely to occur than in homes without guns."[12] [13]
* Reasons for elimination: This statistic is based on a three-county study...
none of this includes the uncounted and unmeasurable number of times any sort of weapon is used to fend off or deter an attacker. these details will somehow be missed, despite the olympian gaze of the liberalist gods, who surprisingly cannot see all and know all and be everywhere at once, unlike...
now, for those who need to see the obvious, and cant google by themselves-
Crime and Self-Defense
* Roughly 16,272 murders were committed in the United States during 2008. Of these, about 10,886 or 67% were committed with firearms.[11]
* A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found...
you live in a world of abstractions. yes i, a 90 lb woman, need a gun to defend myself against a 200 lb unarmed man. YES I DO GODDAMN IT.
gang bangers, criminals and other assorted villains "know" each other hence the damnable lie that we are 'more likely to be shot by someone we know'.
and...
its not an NRA estimate, its an FBI statistic. And it takes no imagination at all to know that some counties have few examples and certain counties have MANY MANY MANY because that shit happens all the time ive seen and experienced in person, homeboy. but unlike you i dont sit around daydreaming...
it's always there. all this 'measured' comparison and cite to statistics... like anyone should care. i dont need to 'read the right books' or have some 'special mind' break it all down for me. everything anyone wants to know is out there on the street, daily.
so here's a quick question: how does any law make a difference? how'd the war on drugs go? how about vietnam?
millions of times every year across America, people defends life with firearms. the next one you save could be your own. the terrible shame is that mother wasnt carrying a rifle or...