Article: Tea Party Rep: Gun Regulation Won't Work Because Hammers And Hatchets Exist | ThinkProgress

Tea Party Rep: Gun Regulation Won't Work Because Hammers And Hatchets Exist | ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/14/1441851/tea-party-rep-gun-regulation-wont-work-because-hammers-and-hatchets-exist/?mobile=wt

Amer­i­ca's gun homi­cide rate is 19.5 times high­er than com­pa­ra­ble nations. The FBI esti­mates that 8,775 peo­ple were killed by guns in 2010 — more than an order of mag­ni­tude high­er than the 540 peo­ple killed with blunt objects. Fur­ther­more, despite the gun lobby's scape­goat­ing of men­tal­ly ill indi­vid­u­als, peo­ple with men­tal health prob­lems are not sta­tis­ti­cal­ly more like­ly to be vio­lent than the aver­age per­son.

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