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Old 02-15-2018, 03:53 PM   #9761 (permalink)
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Interesting, Florida ranks 30th in guns per capita. Connecticut (Sandy Hook) is 25th. Colorado (Aurora) 20th. Illinois (Chicago) is 35th, California 40th, and New York is 50th.

Wyoming has 19.2 times more guns per capita than Florida yet only averages 1.4 times more gun related murders.

So is the issue the number of guns?
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Old 02-15-2018, 03:56 PM   #9762 (permalink)
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Wyoming has a much smaller and spread out population. Booooo bad stats
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Old 02-15-2018, 03:56 PM   #9763 (permalink)
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This will never end until America stops seeing the middle class as an ideal, but as a cultureless disease that offers human beings nothing but sterile consumerism. I mean taking away the guns might stop the killing, but that's just a band-aid for the underlying existential nightmare.
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Interesting, Florida ranks 30th in guns per capita. Connecticut (Sandy Hook) is 25th. Colorado (Aurora) 20th. Illinois (Chicago) is 35th, California 40th, and New York is 50th.

Wyoming has 19.2 times more guns per capita than Florida yet only averages 1.4 times more gun related murders.

So is the issue the number of guns?
Every mass shooter had at least one gun.
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This will never end until America stops seeing the middle class as an ideal, but as a cultureless disease that offers human beings nothing but sterile consumerism. I mean taking away the guns might stop the killing, but that's just a band-aid for the underlying existential nightmare.
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Old 02-15-2018, 04:02 PM   #9766 (permalink)
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Old 02-15-2018, 04:11 PM   #9767 (permalink)
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other developed countries have a middle class similar to ours

are Americans really that much more violent than Australians for instance

probably not, Australia cracked down hard on guns though
Is their middle class particularly happier than ours though? If we gave them guns would they shoot each other? At least the lower classes in this country shoot each other over money and influence. That at least offers a potential tangible gain.
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Old 02-15-2018, 04:32 PM   #9768 (permalink)
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imo americans are just retarded

nothing to do with guns

you're just all ****in' stupid
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Old 02-15-2018, 04:39 PM   #9769 (permalink)
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Old 02-15-2018, 05:03 PM   #9770 (permalink)
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Wyoming has a much smaller and spread out population. Booooo bad stats
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compare the populations of Florida and Wyoming Chula
Wyoming has 4 cities with populations larger than Parkland FL, Newtown CT, and Columbine, CO.

There's 33.6 times more people in Florida than Wyoming, yet Florida only has 1.8 times more guns.

Not trying to make a point. Just adding some numbers to the mix that seem to contradict the "more guns = more mass shootings" narrative.
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