Dick Locher’s ability to capture the absurdities of life through political cartooning culminated in his winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and garnering top honors from the Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists in the same year.
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ruff
said, 4 months ago
Shouldn’t she have a holstered gun at her belt ?
Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago
@ruff
No just one in the lockable middle desk drawer
rightisright said, 4 months ago
Good people with guns stop bad people with guns.
Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago
Some “facts” in review from an old article:
12, 664 “homicides” in the US (2011 FBI stats)
8,583 by “guns” (not assault weapins, all guns)
4,081 by “other” means (knives, clubs, hands, feet, poison etc)
660 of the “gun” homicides were labeled “justified” (tues 10pm FX)
An abysmal record for sure.
You would think that being first in the world in gun ownership (88 guns per 100 people, yeah) that the US would also be first in the world in gun-related murders per a fixed number of people. NOT. Actually 28th in gun homicide at 2.97 per 100K people.
But then we MUST be THE most violent country, right? So let’s compare the US with the UK since that is where an outspoken person claiming the US is so bad is from.
The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU, the fifth highest robbery rate, the fourth highest burglary rate. But more importantly, the EU named Britain as the most violent country in the EU.
In the UK, there are 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people. By contrast, there are 466 violent crimes per 100,000 here in America. This means that Britain’s violent crime rate is over five times that of the U.S.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html#ixzz2HQDkC3re
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list#data
We need to follow that path?