Quote Originally Posted by Rollo View Post
Well there's a thing...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybel...rimes-plummet/
About 10 percent said they purchased their gun from a retail shop or pawnshop, 37 percent obtained it from family or friends, and another 40 percent obtained it from an illegal source.
- Forbes, 14th May 2013

I don't know how you make your claim that "that somewhere in the neighborhood of 99+ percent of gun violence in the US involved illegally owned guns" when no stats have been complied in about a decade:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybel...rimes-plummet/
2004 (the most recent year of data available)
- same article

Do you know more than the Dept of Justice?


I really don't know which is more funny, the fact that you're linking an article that disputes your entire theory on guns, or the fact that you are trying to skew a statement within the article grossly and take it out of context completely.


For those that haven't bothered with the link made by Rollo, give it a click. The article is entitled "Disarming Realities: As Gun Sales Soar, Gun Crimes Plummet" and it appears he read only enough of it to try to twist a statement made in the article, discarding the rest of it.

And I make no claim to know more about gun ownership statistics than the DOJ, but the FBI has huge online databases. Anyone who goes so far as to read the above article would find that a great deal of murders with guns takes place with the gang bangers too young to own one regardless of state.


But lets not let facts from the article get in the way when we can speculate and make things up.