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  1. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    So in 30 years, there's been less than 75 mass shootings?
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    20 dead kids is a tragedy and a mass killing. It was not done with weapons of mass destruction.

    And no, 20 dead kids is not a compelling interest. It may be a social interest or your personal pet interest. It's not a STATE interest, nor is it compelling.

    A cannon isn't a weapon of mass destruction either. If you want to understand what a WMD is, read the FAQ on the FBI site: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/wmd/wmd_faqs

    And if you want to understand what "compelling state interest" means: http://definitions.uslegal.com/c/compelling-state-interest-test/
     
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    How do you think that number compares to other countries?
     
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  5. EL PRESIDENTE

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    as a percentage of total gun shootings, probably pretty similar....somewhere close to being statistically insignificant and/or near zero.
     
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    A lot less than Rwanda, Iraq, Somalia, and probably a few dozen other countries.
     
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    Please, no jokes in poor taste. This is a tragedy.
     
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    Rob Delaney:

     
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    Yay, we're doing better than countries with genocide! Take that gun haters!
     
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    That is no joke. Are those places not countries?
     
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    Only in that they have boundaries decided by the British.
     
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    Yes they are. And like every other stat you've posted in this thread, mentioning them is unrelated and 100% pointless.
     
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    Are you seriously using a single example and acting like it shows something? Are you seriously trying to claim that Canada doesn't have a MINISCULE gun-death per capita rate compared with the US?

    Actually, you're not serious, are you? You've been trolling all along. It's the only answer.
     
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    http://www.juancole.com/2012/07/300000-violent-gun-crimes-a-year-in-the-us-poster.html

    UK is actually considered one the most violent countries in Europe. They banned the right to carry firearms too.
     
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    i guess at the end of the day, im more concerned with murder than guns

    for instance russia has a much higher murder rate, and a much smaller percentage are gun related

    oregon has a similar murder rate to canada, what is oregon doing right that the rest of the country can emulate?
     
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    Canada has about 1/2 the per capita gun death rate we do.

    It's not "minuscule compared to ours," by any rational definition.

    You point to Canada as if it's some panacea. It's not.
     
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    that link says oregon has 298 violent crimes/100,000
     
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