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But, compared with gun owners, there are a miniscule number of murderers in the US -- there were 13,000+ murders in 2009, which doesn't take into account repeat offenders -- compared with an estimated 80 million people who own more than 250 million guns.
***** According to the Texas Department of Health Statistics, in 2007 (the last year that they have available) there were a total of 160,166 deaths.
Of those; 9,495 or 5.93% were accidental, 2,470 or 1.54% were homicides and 1,508 or 0.94% were suicides.
Of the 9,495 accidental deaths 68 or 0.72% were firearm related (0.4% of total deaths).
Of the 2,470 homicides 1,411 or 57.13% were firearm related (0.88% of total deaths). Couldn't find a good stat but I'm guessing there were more than 1,411 gun owners here in Texas and I'd bet that the 1,411 guns used were an extremely small percentage of the total owned legally or illegally.
Of the 1,508 suicides 1,020 or 67.64% were firearm related (0.64% of total deaths).
In Texas in 2007, 71,111 children were substantiated as abused or neglected (10.7 per 1,000 children). 46,806 were neglected, 9,817 were physically abused and 5,205 were sexually abused. 228 died as a result of abuse or neglect.
In Texas in 2007, there were 8,439 cases of rape reported.
In Texas in 2007, there were 73,426 aggravated assaults and 38,769 robberies.
Call me a gun lover or a gun nut but, based on the above, I'm much more worried about the people walking the streets than I am about gun that people have stored at home legally. I have no problem with any American citizen having a gun in their home, legally. Hell...after looking all of that up I may go get one this afternoon.
Al, you're a moron.
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