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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
That school shooting was a massive failure of the system and people are now calling for the system to be more involved with firearms, well why not they have such a great track record. Just as happened in the UK the attention has been taken away from all the system failures and focused just on firearms by those who couldn't care less about the victims just their anti gun agenda. While mass shootings of course are terrible and should call for a review of the system it has to be measured against the good firearms do in the U.S with each year a minimum of 700,000 defensive uses that save lives and that's the figure obama got after spending ten million dollars to try and prove firearms were only a negative aspect of the U.S.
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Do you have a source for this? Most data I've seen is in the low thousands eg
http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable.pdf