05-07-2013, 04:09 PM
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Reformed Know-Nothing
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
Posts: 26,554
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Originally Posted by JBS...
How can this be 
A study released Tuesday by the government's Bureau of Justice Statistics found that gun-related homicides dropped from 18,253 in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011. That's a 39 percent reduction.
Another report by the private Pew Research Center found a similar decline by looking at the rate of gun homicides, which compares the number of killings to the size of the country's population. It found that the number of gun homicides per 100,000 people fell from 7 in 1993 to 3.6 in 2010, a drop of 49 percent.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...#ixzz2SduhtlMh
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Yep. We've only had 140,000 firearms homicides since 9-11. Hooray. 
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