Monday, December 23, 2013

More on the Epidemic of Shootings in Florida

Just a small sample of statistic’s from a recent NDN article:
1. Four of 10 people rushed to Florida’s emergency rooms with non-fatal gun shot injuries were accidental.
2. In the last three years Florida has doubled the national average of accidental shootings. The Orlando area is even worse.
3. Florida’s hospitals and emergency rooms had more than $57 million in charges for its accidental shootings last year with an average of $85,000 per patient admitted. That’s only for those who survived the shooting and only the ones that were accidental.
4. So who pays the hospital bill for these shootings? For the bills that are actually paid, Government services paid 50% of them, and that’s only the hospital bills.
More guns mean more shootings, more killings, and we all pay for it. We need less guns, more gun control, less of the politicians who put us in harms way just to get money for re-election. 

18 comments:

  1. This is a letter to the editor that you're taking at face value. Given its multiple errors in grammar and its many claims of fact that make no sense, I can see why it appeals to you, Mikeb.

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    1. Greg, you're really stretching a bit there to make a personal attack against me.

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    2. No stretch here. But you should be used to it, from practicing personal attacks on others.

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    3. I have read where Mike attacks your lying criminal cowardly thinking, but you are the one who calls Mike a bigot and other false insults. When you are caught lying and Mike calls you on it, that is of course in your deranged mind, a personal attack.

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    4. "Multiple errors in grammar" is one of the things that appeals to me, Greg? Really?

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    5. Among other things, but yes, Mikeb.

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    6. To Greg the lying criminal coward, misspell a word and your point means shit. Grammar errors are the contention of dishonest debaters, which Greg proves he is everyday.

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    7. The site liar has said insurance on guns, is just another gun ban. He doesn't care about death, and he doesn't care who is stuck with the bill.

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    8. Greg, please elaborate on that one. I find "multiple errors in grammar" appealing?

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    9. You make a good many yourself, Mikeb. I've pointed them out in the past.

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    10. You're so full of shit Greg, it's funny.

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    11. You care to argue about grammar with someone who's taught that subject in English composition classes for the last fifteen years?

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    12. You are the one who points out how bad our schools are; I have no doubt you are one of the reasons our schools are so bad. You didn't even know how the Constitution is amended. I feel sorry for your students. It's a fact you teach (I don't really believe you are a teacher, but I'll humor you) in one of the ranked worst States for educational achievement. No surprise.

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    13. Greg, I'm questioning your claim that I find multiple errors in grammar appealing. That was an infantile personal attack and you fucking know it. I make some typos because I don't always reread my comments, but my grasp of grammar is about as good as yours.

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    14. Mikeb, you accept any violation of the rules of English that promotes gun control.

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    15. "That was an infantile personal attack and you fucking know it."
      What else would you expect from the site liar?

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  2. This guy appears to have just puked out the same stuff in the article you posted about accidental shootings in Florida just the other day. I don't know if you can use the campaign money excuse anymore with Former Mayor Bloomberg's lavish monetary support of candidates who favor any new restrictive gun law the Good Idea Fairy puts in someone's head.

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    1. The other post didn't go into the cost. This is something that is often overlooked in the gun debate.

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