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Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:20 am
by LawL
Americans are lining up to buy guns in unprecedented numbers in the wake of the Newtown school shooting and the debate around tightening gun controls, with federal background checks on prospective buyers running at record levels.
The FBI’s latest list of the top 10 highest days since 1998 in terms of the number of gun background checks initiated tells a dramatic story. The record was set with 177,170 requests for NICS checks on Friday, 21 December - exactly one week after the Newtown massacre.
Over 1600 people have died so far since the schoolhouse massacre in Newtown, Conn., on the morning of Dec. 14.
A new study commissioned by Mayors Against Illegal Violence concludes that there have been 43 mass shootings in 25 states over the past four years - or nearly one per month.
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/287541.html
Obviously these figures of death will all drastically drop now due to even more Americans being armed, as we all know that the best way to stop people killing each other with guns is for more people to have guns.
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:22 am
by GONNAFISTYA
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:00 am
by SoM
i can't own a gun for 2 more years, legally
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:11 am
by GONNAFISTYA
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:20 am
by Psyche911
Shit, I can't be the only one without a gun. That's just asking for trouble. brb
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:11 am
by LawL
SoM wrote:i can't own a gun for 2 more years, legally
You'll just have to stab people for now.
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:15 am
by SoM
i can't have a knife aswell, legally
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:02 am
by scared?
Lol convicts...
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:10 am
by SoM
lol poor ppl
i win
confirmation from lawl
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:16 pm
by bitWISE
I don't need a gun. I can kill people just as easily with a hammer.
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:18 pm
by Ryoki
Not that i have trouble believing the story but... the Iranian national press agency? Really?
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:28 pm
by LawL
Some Iranian men are pretty hot bro.
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 4:06 pm
by scared?
Yeah I fucked one once...had to jump out window when family came home...
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 6:01 pm
by seremtan
Ryoki wrote:
Not that i have trouble believing the story but... the Iranian national press agency? Really?
i wonder if the needle on your sceptic-o-meter would be twitching so much if it were a story about Iran from a US media source
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:44 pm
by Psyche911
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/07/us/lapd-a ... ?hpt=hp_t1
Well, now we have a former military/former police officer running around the county killing people with a 50 cal. rifle.
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:48 pm
by Doombrain
Well I think loading your guns with guns should stop this type of thing.
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:21 am
by seremtan
Psyche911 wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/07/us/lapd-attacks/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Well, now we have a former military/former police officer running around the county killing people with a 50 cal. rifle.
another day ending with a 'y' then
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:14 am
by YourGrandpa
Another slow news day in America.
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:54 pm
by Denz
You don't see mass shootings in Utah because everyone is packing.
Utah is an open carry state. Everyone that has gun legally can carry a gun visible to everyone. Normally people don't but we also have a concealed firearms law which means with a permit you can carry a loaded firearm concealed.
Talk about the wild wild west modernized.
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:56 pm
by LawL
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:57 pm
by scared?
That's not the reason there hasn't been a mass shooting in Utah. They are just rare enough where it hasn't happened everywhere...
Dipshit...
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:07 pm
by Ryoki
Denz wrote:You don't see mass shootings in Utah because everyone is packing.
Yeah, ok.
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:13 pm
by GONNAFISTYA
Denz wrote:You don't see mass shootings in Utah because everyone is packing.
Utah is an open carry state. Everyone that has gun legally can carry a gun visible to everyone. Normally people don't but we also have a concealed firearms law which means with a permit you can carry a loaded firearm concealed.
Talk about the wild wild west modernized.
Hello cowboy western reject. The year 1830 called and wants its attitude back.
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:34 pm
by bitWISE
As far as general gun-crime statistic go though, Utah actually is one of the better states. Not saying their laws are the reason why or supporting them, just pointing that out.
Re: Record number of Americans buying guns
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:58 pm
by Eraser
So what's the exact value of that statement in light of this discussion?
