Excellent Break Down of Our Rights to Have Guns

[John Boy]

Kyle Grundle posted the following regarding our rights to have guns:
There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. The U.S. population is 324,059,091 as of June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:
• 65% of those deaths are by suicide, which would never be prevented by gun laws.
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified.
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – better known as gun violence.
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths.
So technically, "gun violence" is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100.. Still too many? Now lets look at how those deaths spanned across the nation.
• 480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago
• 344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore
• 333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit
• 119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years)
So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.
This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 and Alabama had 1.
Now, who has the strictest gun laws by far? California, of course, but understand, it is not guns causing this. It is a crime rate spawned by the number of criminal persons residing in those cities and states. So if all cities and states are not created equal, then there must be something other than the tool causing the gun deaths.
Are 5,100 deaths per year horrific? How about in comparison to other deaths? All death is sad and especially so when it is in the commission of a crime but that is the nature of crime. Robbery, death, rape, assault are all done by criminals. It is ludicrous to think that criminals will obey laws. That is why they are called criminals.
But what about other deaths each year?
• 40,000+ die from a drug overdose–THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THAT!
• 36,000 people die per year from the flu, far exceeding the criminal gun deaths.
• 34,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities(exceeding gun deaths even if you include suicide).
Now it gets good:
• 200,000+ people die each year (and growing) from preventable medical errors. You are safer walking in the worst areas of Chicago than you are when you are in a hospital!
• 710,000 people die per year from heart disease. It’s time to stop the double cheeseburgers! So what is the point? If the liberal loons and the anti-gun movement focused their attention on heart disease, even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths would save twice the number of lives annually of all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law enforcement, etc.). A 10% reduction in medical errors would be 66% of the total number of gun deaths or 4 times the number of criminal homicides ................... Simple, easily preventable 10% reductions! So you have to ask yourself, in the grand scheme of things,

why the focus on guns? It's pretty simple:
Taking away guns gives control to governments. The founders of this nation knew that regardless of the form of government, those in power may become corrupt and seek to rule as the British did by trying to disarm the populace of the colonies. It is not difficult to understand that a disarmed populace is a controlled populace.
Thus, the second amendment was proudly and boldly included in the U.S. Constitution. It must be preserved at all costs. So the next time someone tries to tell you that gun control is about saving lives, look at these facts and remember these words from Noah Webster: "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed.

[Subdeacon Joe]

I approach it somewhat differently.  

Several anti-civil rights outfits, including Prevention Magazine have inadvertently helped our cause.  They estimate that something like 44% of all households have at least one firearm.and doing histrionic hand wringing about the "almost 1,000 accidental gun deaths!!!!!"  Now, even one accidental death - accidental death by any means - is one death too many.  But, OK, 44% of all US households, call it about 140,000,000 people with ready access to firearms.

If we take all deaths by means of firearm by all causes; murder, accident, suicide, justifiable, we have about 32,000 deaths.  Add in the injuries, about 90,000, again all causes.  So we end up with about 122,000 injuries and deaths.  

Now, assume that each of those deaths or injuries is a single event caused by a single individual - a false assumption on its face, but I'm giving the antis every possible advantage - we have 122,000 events by 122,000 individuals out of a population with ready access to firearms of ~140,000,000

individuals.  That works out to about .087% of all people with easy access to firearms. 

 

Not even 1/10 of 1%.  Hardly the "epidemic of gun violence" we hear being trumpeted by those who are trying to strip away our civil rights. Even if we were to cut it down to an estimate of 100,000,000 gun owners (I know, the usual guesstimate is 80,000,000 but I've been seeing that number used for 20 years, common sense says it has to be more now) we get roughly .122% - call it 1/8 of 1%.  Again, hardly an "epidemic."