Sanity Will Prevail
Kevin Rudd: my shift on same-sex marriage | The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/kevin-rudd-my-shift-on-same-sex-marriage/story-fn59niix-1226647250264?sv=e6c68ae010c4779cd5a57b0e7a3635d6#.UZpCbCHhp1c.twitter
great song! it’s been a while since she had a song this good! Mariah Carey - #Beautiful ft. Miguel (by MariahCareyVEVO)
What do u want to do with the time that is given to you?
Watching o’reilly factor on FOX and am running out of things to throw at the TV! Getting pissed off is fun!
loving this song right now! - Emmy Rossum - Slow Me Down (by EmmyRossumVEVO)
There is going to be one unhappy bride! - Groom busted in drink driving blitz | http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/groom-busted-in-drink-driving-blitz-20130310-2ftmq.html via @theage
And who said honesty wasn’t the best policy! - $95,000 and rising for man who returned ring
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/22/us/missouri-diamond-ring-returned/index.html
Takes a brave president to do brave things! - Obama asks court to overturn gay marriage ban http://bit.ly/YJI5eo
A powerful and poetic animation about bullying! Just love the soundtrack so much! - To This Day Project - Shane Koyczan (by Shane Koyczan)
Australian MPs vote for Aboriginal recognition via @sharethis
If you think your life as impossibly difficult, You have not heard the story of this brave young lady. - Shot Pakistani Activist Malala Will Push on With Campaign (+Video) | South Asia | World | Epoch Times: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/shot-pakistani-activist-malala-will-push-on-with-campaign-344025.html#.URIEvK0H5Dk.twitter
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Gun Violence in America
How often are guns used in self-defense?
There are no comprehensive records kept of incidents where guns are used in self-defense, so the only way to know is to ask people. Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey suggest that a gun is used in self-defense about 60,000 to 120,000 times each year. Several other surveys confirm this estimate. By comparison, each year about a million violent crimes involve guns. This means guns are used to commit a crime about 10 times as often as they are used for self-defense.
A few surveys in the early 1990s suggested that there are millions gun self-defense incidents each year, but there are very good reasons to believe that these estimates were improperly calculated and these numbers are way off, more than 10 times too high. If the numbers really were this high, this would imply that pretty much every gunshot wound in America is the result of somebody protecting him or herself.
Even among the more accurate surveys, according to a panel of criminal court judges who reviewed survey respondents’ stories, about half the time the gun use was “probably illegal,” even assuming the gun itself had been purchased legally.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/9f3b91f3e64c91a40ccc2e7da69e2a0d/tumblr_mhpeywwTAF1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Gun Violence in America
How often are guns used in self-defense?
There are no comprehensive records kept of incidents where guns are used in self-defense, so the only way to know is to ask people. Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey suggest that a gun is used in self-defense about 60,000 to 120,000 times each year. Several other surveys confirm this estimate. By comparison, each year about a million violent crimes involve guns. This means guns are used to commit a crime about 10 times as often as they are used for self-defense.
A few surveys in the early 1990s suggested that there are millions gun self-defense incidents each year, but there are very good reasons to believe that these estimates were improperly calculated and these numbers are way off, more than 10 times too high. If the numbers really were this high, this would imply that pretty much every gunshot wound in America is the result of somebody protecting him or herself.
Even among the more accurate surveys, according to a panel of criminal court judges who reviewed survey respondents’ stories, about half the time the gun use was “probably illegal,” even assuming the gun itself had been purchased legally.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
Man outsources own job to China - http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0117/breaking31.html#.UPf98_GhUb0.twitter via @IrishTimes
ok love it! - Les Miserables - Official Movie Trailer 2012 (HD) (by DanceOn)
Chinese journalists in rare protest against censorship - CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/07/world/asia/china-journalists-protests/index.html
