Obama and guns in the usa.

[agstar77]

They have the right to kill each other as fast as possible.

[oneoff]

yes they do

[agstar77]

Isn't that the first amendment right?

[oneoff]

I believe it is the second ammendment

[chuckChuck]

The good thing is many Americans are fed up with the status quo. It is okay to say that it is up to Americans to decide their own fate but we all know that big money is the political force in the US not the average guy on the street. They have a dis-functional and corrupt system. It doesn't often matter who is elected because they all run into the same well monied lobbying machines that buy their votes through lavish campaign support. The NRA is all about making sure lots of guns are sold. By many measures the US quality of life is low for many of its' citizens, lots of poverty, poor education, poor health care coverage, and a violent society that believe guns = freedom!

[samhill]

So, in a society as you have just described, no need to
be able to protect your family, the government will do
it for you.

[agstar77]

To kill each other, first ammendment.

[Hopperbin]

Some USA stats.

Mortality

All injury deaths
•Number of deaths: 180,811
•Deaths per 100,000 population: 58.6

Motor vehicle traffic deaths
•Number of deaths: 33,687
•Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.9

All poisoning deaths
•Number of deaths: 42,917
•Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.9

All firearm deaths
•Number of deaths: 31,672
•Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.3



On top of that more than half of all the gun deaths are suicide. Not saying its acceptable just some facts.

[Hopperbin]

According to these statistics if everyone just so happens to live to 80 years of age then 4.7 percent of everyone you know will die from an injury death of some sort.

Canadas gun death per one hundred thousand persons is 3.8.
In American it is 10.3

In Canada Over the past 25 years, there have been an average of 1,300 firearms deaths per year. Of the 1,125 firearm deaths in 1995, about 80.1 percent or 911 were classified as suicides; there were 145 homicides, representing 12.4 percent; and 49 unintentional deaths, for 4.3 percent of the total (Hung, 1997). These percentages have remained relatively stable over the past decade.

[newguy]

The USA has created a love for guns..Was reading a Bismarck ND paper and came across an ad that said..Buy a combine and recieve a Free GUN..Then when at the Walmart in Bismark watched a family picking out a gun for 10 year as he held it to see which one he could handle... It will take a few generations to dilute that kind of Red Neck mentality.