Kevyn wrote:
What would you think about an age limit for children blasting machine guns? Would twelve be unreasonable, or would that infringe on the second amendment rights of nine year olds? As they say a well armed playground is a polite playground.
You people are complete imbeciles. One careless instructor, one kid, and almost ninety million gun owners are guilty. Using your logic, you are guilty of the Theatre shooting in Colorado. The shooter was a Democrat, and a former Obama campaign worker. Therefore, all Obama v**ers are guilty of murder.
Our murder rate is 4.1/100,000. Perhaps you would care to move to Jamaica, where gun ownership is illegal, and even possession of ammunition, with no gun to fire it from is an automatic jail sentence.
Their murder rate is 39.8/100,000, ten times that of the US.
The US may be high in gun murders, but is in around 70th place worldwide for murders.
In the past 20 years, despite all the sensationalism and publicity given to some shootings, firearms murders in the US have declined by 50%. That is TOTAL number, not per capita. That's right, you progressive morons; in spite of a huge population increase, in spite of a huge spike in the number of privately owned firearms, and especially in spite of several million concealed carry permits being issued, the bloodbath you predicted never happened.
Matter of fact, something else you i***ts never address, [undoubtedly because of it's RAAAAAACIIIIIISST!!! connotations], is the FACT, as per FBI statistics, there were 9000 odd firearms murders in the US last year. About 7000 of the victims were black. Something like 94 -95 percent of the perpetrators were black. In other words, nearly 70% of both the victims and the murderers came from a group that represents around 6% of the population. B****s are 13% of the population, however, virtually all the crimes are committed by black males 15-45 years of age, about 6% of the populace. That's not quite right. The perps were in the 6%, the victims were of all ages. My bad.