Living under the gun: Bill Moyers
At least 12 are dead in Aurora, Colorado, gunned down by a mad man at a showing of the new Batman movie filled with make-believe violence. One of the guns the shooter used was an AK-47 type, assault weapon that was banned in 1994. The National Rifle Association saw to it that the ban expired in 2004. The NRA is the best friend a killer’s instinct ever had.
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Whatever the relationship between the availability of guns, violent crime and self-defense, we know that those developed nations that exhibit much less violent crime than the United States have about one third as many guns per capita. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country
Consider.
Germany’s cumulative police force fired 85 bullets in all of
2011.
NYC police fired 84 shots at a single murder suspect in April, 2012.
Source: The
Atlantic
Peace must be cultivated.
It is not cultivated by the ad libidum acquisition of firearms.
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