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The actual number of people that own guns is pretty small in the US.
Are you serious? What are you comparing those numbers agains? Did you watch "Bowling for colombine"? Gimme some time I will give you some links prooving the opposite.
I know a lot more people that DON'T own guns than people that do. The exception to this was when I was living in Alaska - where pretty much everyone I knew owned a gun of some kind.
Any person living in a rural part of the country - and I mean REALLY rural doesn't count. If you live in the backwoods of Alaska and don't own a gun you're an idiot. Same for rural Wyoming, Montana, and other areas where gun ownership is a pratical need for SAFETY.
Reduce that further by those guns used only for hunting and the numbers drop even more.
Remove the muzzleloading guns which aren't useful for much of anything other than re-enactments and it drops even more.
There IS such a thing as 'responsible' gun ownership.
But some statistics:
The General Social Survey (GSS) is a primary source for data on firearm ownership, with surveys periodically done by other organizations such as Harris Interactive.[53] In 2004, 36.5% of Americans reported having a gun in their home, which is down from 46% as reported in 1989.[54] Philip J. Cook suggests that increased numbers of female-headed households may be a factor in declining household ownership figures.[20] A National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms (NSPOF), conducted in 1994, indicates that Americans own 192 million guns, with 36% of these consisting of rifles, 34% handguns, 26% shotguns, and 4% other types of long guns.[55] Most firearm owners own multiple firearms, with the NSPOF survey indicating 25% of adults own firearms.[55] In the United States, 11% of households report actively being involved in hunting,[54] with the remaining firearm owners having guns for self protection and other reasons. Throughout the 1970s and much of the 1980s, the rate of gun ownership in the home ranged from 45-50%.[54] Gun ownership also varies across geographic regions, ranging from 25% rates of ownership in the Northeastern United States to 60% rates of ownership in the East South Central States.[56] The GSS survey and other proxy measures of gun ownership do not provide adequate macro-level detail to allow conclusions on the relationship between overall firearm ownership and gun violence.[20] Criminologist Gary Kleck compared various survey and proxy measures and found no correlation between overall firearm ownership and gun violence.[49]
Between 1987 and 1990, David McDowall found that guns were used in defense during a crime incident 64,615 times annually.[57] This equates to two times out of 1,000 incidents (0.2%) that occurred in this time frame.[57] For violent crimes (assault, robbery, and rape), guns were used 0.83% of the time in self defense.[57] Of the times that guns were used in self defense, 71% of the crimes were committed by strangers, with the rest of the incidents evenly divided between offenders that were acquaintances or persons well known to the victim.[57] Of all incidents where a gun was used for self defense, victims shot at the offender 28% of the time.[57] In 20% of the self defense incidents, the guns were used by police officers.[57] During the same time period, there were 46,319 gun homicides,[58] and the National Crime Victimization Survey estimates that 2,628,532 nonfatal crimes involving guns occurred.[57]
The findings of the McDowall study contrast with the findings of a 1993 study by Gary Kleck, who finds that as many as 2.45 million crimes are thwarted each year in the United States, and in most cases, the potential victim never fires a shot in these cases where firearms are used constructively for self protection.[59] The results of the Kleck studies have been cited many times in scholarly and popular media.[60]
McDowell cites methodological issues with the Kleck studies, which used a very small sample size and did not confine self defense to attempted victimizations where physical attacks had already commenced.[57] A study of gun use in the 1990s, by David Hemenway at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, found that criminal use of guns is far more common than self defense use of guns.[61] By the Kleck study, however, most successful preventions of victimizations are accomplished without a shot being fired, which are not counted as a self-defense firearm usage by either the Hemenway or McDowell studies.[62][57][61]
en.wikipedia.org
Yea... I know, it's wikipedia. But the data provided is valid and unbaised when I double checked some of the sources.
And as for music....
1992 - Cop Killer - Body Count
All this aside I agree....
This isn't a game, Julls life is (will be) in danger and we all wish him a safe return. If all goes well he won't have to fire a gun while he's there. To be honest, I'm hoping he gets a chance to throw down some crazy mixes while he's there and can post them because he has so much downtime.
Remember, Julls has a wife and young son (under a year old) waiting for him to come back. His not coming back would be a tragedy. His not being able to do that gig I have him booked for on September 29th wouldn't be good either.
