NRA
sometimes lobbyist and sometimes shadowy beard(?) wife of Wayne LaPierre raked in
big bucks at her (Susan LaPierre's) NRA Women’s Leadership Conference and Auction at the exclusive River Oaks Country Club in Houston, charity money to be
distributed to NRA like TAX-FREE charities like new gun development and gun education for women, kids and
toddlers. All that and scheduled sexy quest speaker Sean Hannity too. omg!
One
thing not discussed by all the merry NRA trophy wives in Houston at Susan’s
luncheon were the statistics of death associated with free market firearms and their
natural sequences of collateral damages to the stupid masses (below).
After
the Luncheon, the ladies went on to do something equally really important for
the Houston community and economy, they limo-ed over to a shoe sale at Neiman Marcus. lol
The
following numbers tell the tale:
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33: The average number of people murdered with a gun in the United
States every day.
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283: The average number of people shot in the United States every
day.
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40: The average number of children and teenagers shot in the
United States every day.
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10 times higher: The
accidental-firearms death rate among children in the United States compared to
other high-income countries.
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31,000: The average number of homicides, suicides, and fatal accidents
involving firearms in the United States every year.
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6.9 times higher: The homicide rate of the United States compared to 22
high-income countries.
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85 percent: The percentage of attempted suicides with a gun in the United
States that result in fatalities.
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8 times higher: The firearm suicide rate among children in the United States
compared to other high-income countries.
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500 percent: The percentage that the risk of homicide increases when a gun
is present in a domestic-violence situation.
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57 percent: The percentage of mass shootings that began with the targeting
of a girlfriend, spouse, or former intimate partner.
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63: The number of U.S. law-enforcement officers killed with
firearms in 2011.
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6.6 million: The estimated number of guns sold each year in the United
States without a background check.
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80 percent: The percentage of convicted criminals who acquired the guns
used in their crimes through a private transfer.
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90 seconds: The amount of time it takes to complete 91 percent of background
checks.
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38 percent lower: The number of women killed with a firearm by an intimate
partner in states that require background checks for all handgun sales,
compared to states that do not require such background checks.
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2.5 times higher: The average export rate of crime guns in states that do not
require background checks for all handgun sales at gun shows, compared to
states that do require such background checks.
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