Meanwhile, still another DUer has had a relative injured in Iraq

[KamaAina]

If only he wouldn't be so shy about telling us how he really feels about the pResident... :P

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6425300&mesg_id=6425300

[whistle]

1. And in America today 48 to 53 murders will be commited of which 68%

...wil have been with fire arms. A total of 18,687 murders will be committed in the United States this year of which 12,703 will be by fire arms.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Were any of those murders committed

for the purpose of protecting our nation? That's why the second amendment says we should be allowed to own guns. Was the VT shooter protecting our country? Does the NRA give a fuck?

[whistle]

3. The statistics don't tell us that...all these numbers tell us is that tomorrow

...another 48 to 54 Americans will be murdered with 68% being killed with fire arms and this number on average will be repeated each day, every day until December 31 2007. Then beginning on January 1, 2008 if nothing changes the numbers will continue at an increasing rate of 3.0% to 5.0% more each day and so on as far into the future as we can reasonably project.

We all know the effects of compound interest rates on investment. The gun lobby has an investment they wish to protect so chances are that if the murder rate reaches the levels it was when Ronald Reagan was president the number of murders could nearly double from the current 5.9 per 100,000 population to something between 10.9 to 12.0 per 100,000 perhaps within the next 7 or 8 years where we will see not 18,700 murders per year but over 38,000 murders per year. From the VA Tech experience yesterday, that level of murder efficiency can really only come from the use of a weapon which only has a single purpose of killing, the gun!