Gun ControlYes or No

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Gun Control-Yes or No

• Mr. Keen

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My history

• Paramedic late 70s and early 80s.
• mass murder, shootings, car
  accidents.
• Armed security 80s and 90s.
• gangs, burning car, fights.
• Gun Activist 1994 Award.

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Accidental Injuries in 2000

• Automobile 43,000
• Poisions(liquid) 16,000
• Pedestrians 5,300
• Drowning
  3,900
• Fires,Burns
  3,600
• Suffocation
  3,400
• Firearms
  600
• All Others
  14,900
• TOTAL
  97,300

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Info on Car Accidents

• Number 1 cause of Death for 6 to 29 year olds.
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• The cost is more than 150.5 Billion a year.
• In 1998 41,400 people Died.
• In 1998 3,192,000 Injured.
• Approximately 1.5 Million Arrested for Drunk
  Driving in 1997.

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Info on Guns

• In 1992 40,000 people died in gun deaths.
• The US has over 20,000 gun control laws.
• In 1990 24 states had no gun control laws.
  There were 24.4 gun related deaths per 100,000.
• 26 states with gun control laws, there were 19.6
  gun related deaths per 100,000.

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Citizens Self-Defense Act of 1997

• Police cannot protect and are not legally liable
  for failing to protect individual citizens.
• In Floridas Dade Co. Police responded to 200,000
  of the 700,000 calls for help.
• In 1989 the Justice Dept. found that 168,881
  crimes of violence where the police did not
  respond within 1 hour.

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Citizens defending themselves

• Every year more than 2,400,000 people in US use a
  gun to defend themselves.
• Firearms are used 60 times more often to protect
  the lives of honest citizens.
• Of the 2,400,000 self-defense cases, 192,000 were
  women defending against sexual abuse.
• Of the 2,400,000, 92 percent just brandished or
  fired a warning shot to scare off attackers.
• Less than 8 killed or wounded the attacker.

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What the Police Say

• 95 dislike ban on large capacity magazines.
• 92 oppose assault weapons ban.
• 93 do not like the Brady Bill.

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Gun Stats

• Half of the household in the US have a gun.
• Americans own between 65 and 70 Million pistols.
• Americans own between 125 and 130 Million rifles
  and shotguns.
• Americans own over 1 Million assault weapons.

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Dr. John Lott Study

• In 1998, 31 states have rightto-carry laws.
• Between 1977 and 1992, 10 states adopted
  right-to-carry laws with the following
• No change in suicide rate.
• .5 rise in accidental firearm deaths.
• 5 decline in rapes.
• 7 decline in aggravated assaults.
• 8 decline in murder.

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Using 1995 numbers

• 1 accidental gun death.
• 316 less murders.
• 939 less rapes.
• 14,702 less aggravated assaults.
• Info in these 10 states annually.

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1996 Florida Stats

• Florida
  US
• Homicide rate down 36 down .4
• Firearm Hom.rate dn 37 up 15
• Handgun Hom dn 41 up 24

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What bullets really do

• Not like Hollywood.
• Leaves bad scars.
• Usually disables body parts.
• Goes in small, goes out big.

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Gun owners

• Need to be responsible.
• Guns are not a toy.
• Practice and know the weapon.
• Use the correct ammo.
• Safety is the most important part.

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Bottom line

• Is an armed society a safer society? Whats your
  decision?