"According to National Public Radio (NPR), on the day of the Navy Yard shooting, Russian Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Alexei Pushkov mockingly tweeted: 'A new shootout at Navy Headquarters in Washington...A clear confirmation of American exceptionalism.' In response, NPR wrote, 'Pushkov sneers at U.S. gun laws, but how to do the stats look in Russia? There are fewer than 13 million firearms in circulation in Russia, compared with an estimated 300 million in the United States. That works out to about 9 guns per 100 people in Russia and close to 100 guns per 100 people in America. [Yet] the most recent homicide statistics for Russia show there were 21,603 [murders in Russia] in 2009... [while] the United States had 13,636 homicides in 2009 with a population that is more than twice as large.' Russia has the type of gun control law Democrats in the United States have being pushing since Columbine." ("U.S. Has More Guns," Breitbart, Sept. 30, 2013) Comments are closed.
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