According to The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the USA has a murder rate of 4.1 per 100,000 people. Pakistan sports a 7.7 per 100K, Russia a 13.12, South Africa 16.25 and Kenya would be the only one lower with a 2.76.
Russia, and Pakistan do not provide the rates of guns by firearms, only South Africa does and it comes to almost the same as the murder rate while the US drops to 2.97 per 100K. It is interesting that he cherry picks the data and somehow forgets the 110 countries ahead of the US in murders.
But he is Robert Reich, Clinton operative. Lying is his default line and operating system.
When you’ve got Robert B. Reichhhhhhh and Bob Shrum in the same day, attacking the right to own gun and carry them concealed, then you KNOW that the Democrat-Marxists are already bending Bonehead Boehner and Turtle McConnell (whom they own), and are getting ready for a massive gun confiscation at the Federal level. This is the event they’ve waited for. It could be Obama’s swan song.
Under the present conditions, we could have a massive federal gun confiscation signed into law. That might be enough to trigger the cold civil war into going hot. For the sake of the Founders’ Republic, I hope so.
Was thinking today — the gun is credited with leveling things and ending the age of “nobles”, ushering in the age of liberty. And it’s not as if the times BEFORE the gun were bloodless, peaceful ages of universal love.
So why would anyone want to get rid of guns?
To bring back the social structure of peasants ruled by “nobles” who have a monopoly on the (effective) use of force.
Thus, according to this logic, France and Norway are “lesser developed nations”.
And once again, in order to “prove” their point, the gun control crowd has to strictly limit their definition of crime, murder, or violence to that committed with a gun.
As if being beaten to death is somehow not murder.
Can someone please address the comments this guy made about mental illness? To my knowledge, no one on our side has said anything about stopping aid to the mental illness system. Also, when those guys had both houses of Congress and the presidency to boot, I don’t remember them making a big push to provide more facilities to the mentally ill. Anyone have more info? That counts as two lies in one column, unless there is something I’m missing…
Hear, hear, Fosdick! And, by the way, are you “Fearless”?(Ancient history reference) The guy opens the door with the truth and then tries to shove the straw man in behind it. Some of us (most of us) probably would object to “federalization” of mental health services, but not to the services themselves. How much better could they have been funded over the past few years with that half-billion dollars that went to Solyndra?
Or the 6 billion Hillary’s state department lost”.