3 people killed in shooting near Texas A&M University

[bechyni]

or that people have less of a chance to fight back when facing a person with a gun

[Nephlite]

Since D.C. made gun laws tighter with regards to possessing a handgun, we've seen a recent spike in forcible robbery (snatch and grab, assault with intent to rob) and knife robberies. DC Alerts on twitter shells out at least 5-10 robberies a day and one or two gun crimes along with those. Assaults and random crimes are up too but not nearly as many homicides (guns included) as there were back when I first started. Some people say it's getting worse but I think just overall it's starting to decline in the right way.

[archibaldcrane]

Stay away from Chicago though, people are getting murdered like crazy out there.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward...163874546.html

[Dimmauk]

Stay away from Chicago though, people are getting murdered like crazy out there.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward...163874546.html

Cutty and Obama are to blame.

[archibaldcrane]

Actually this is a new weird spike, their murder rate has been declining at a rate that even Byrnthnoth could appreciate.

Homicides in Chicago 1990-2011
1990: 851
1991: 927
1992: 943
1993: 855
1994: 931
1995: 828
1996: 796
1997: 761
1998: 704
1999: 643
2000: 633
2001: 667
2002: 656
2003: 601
2004: 453
2005: 451
2006: 471
2007: 448
2008: 513
2009: 459
2010: 436
2011: 433

[Xno Kappa]

Wow in Tokyo you get 15 years for possession lol.

[Dimmauk]

I wonder what the tokyo jails look like?

[Churchill]

blow up dolls and prisoners raping women if media isnt lying to me

[Marootsoobutsu]

Or it means gun wounds are more likely to be fatal than the wounds of other weapons.

Except that total murder rates exceed the difference in murder rates by gun violence. If you remove all gun-related deaths, the US still has a noticeably higher murder rate than the UK. How does the lethality of guns have anything to do with a higher murder rate, even when you are excluding gun-related deaths?