On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:25:50 -0400, Home Guy wrote:

HeyBub wrote:

By Department of Justice standards, the SAFEST large city in the
United States is El Paso, Texas (pop. 801,000). Sixteen murders
were recorded in El Paso in 2011.

I'd like to see the stats for the rates per 100k people that are either
killed-on-scene or treated in hospitals for ANY injury caused by a
weapon, and see how those numbers break down when the weapon is a
firearm vs anything else (knife, 2x4, bow-and-arrow, etc).

IOW, you don't know what you're talking about. At least you admit it,
HomoGuy.

Death stats are not necessarily illustrative of the net-harm caused to a
society because of guns, given increasingly sophisticated and effective
medical treatment.

Clueless. How about the 2.5M defensive uses of firearms EACH YEAR. That
shows their net good.

The congresswoman from Arizona is forever going to live with the effects
of almost being killed by a gunshot to the brain. That she survived
does not take away from the utter lack of any redeeming value that guns
impart to US society.

A gun did not pull the trigger.