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Default The dangers to australia of gun extremism

SaPeIsMa wrote:
> "Peter Lucas" > wrote in message
> ...
>> GCA believe that it is profoundly unwise to be associated with
>> organizations that preach the possibility of insurrection against an
>> elected government. We are worried, therefore, that some shooter
>> groups in australia remain associated with such extremist American
>> groups.
>>
>> Guns murdered more than 7000 people in australia in the past decade.
>>

>
> How can a gun, an inanimate object, decide to do anything like murder ?
>
>


There is that to it. His bigger problem is the number of murders that he
invented for the sake of his argument. Guns are usually responsible for
a fraction of the homicides. The 7,000 murders in a decade he attributes
to guns is roughly double the total homicides over ten years.