146 Police murdered in the U.S in a year not a problem to you Layfayette. Have a little read here from Wiki on the firearm stats in the U.S.

Tell you one thing I wouldn't be a Cop in the U.S. if they paid me a million bucks a year.

Gun violence in the United States


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Gun violence in the United States results in thousands of deaths and injuries annually.[1] According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, firearms were used in 84,258 nonfatal injuries (26.65 per 100,000 U.S. citizens) [2] and 11,208 deaths by homicide (3.5 per 100,000),[3] 21,175 by suicide with a firearm,[4] 505 deaths due to accidental discharge of a firearm,[4] and 281 deaths due to firearms-use with "undetermined intent"[5] for a total of 33,169 deaths related to firearms (excluding firearm deaths due to legal intervention). 1.3% of all deaths in the country were related to firearms.[1][6]

In 2010, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 67% of all homicides in the U.S. were conducted using a firearm.[7] According to the FBI, in 2012, there were 8,855 total firearm-related homicides in the US, with 6,371 of those attributed to handguns.[8] 61% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. are suicides.[9] In 2010, there were 19,392 firearm-related suicides, and 11,078 firearm-related homicides in the U.S.[10] In 2010, 358 murders were reported involving a rifle while 6,009 were reported involving a handgun; another 1,939 were reported with an unspecified type of firearm.[11]

In 2010, gun violence cost U.S. taxpayers approximately $516 million in direct hospital costs.[12]

Gun violence is most common in poor urban areas and frequently associated with gang violence, often involving male juveniles or young adult males.[13][14] Although mass shootings have been covered extensively in the media, mass shootings account for a small fraction of gun-related deaths[9] and the frequency of these events steadily declined between 1994 and 2007, rising between 2007 and 2013, before continuing a downward decline.[15][16]

Legislation at the federal, state, and local levels has attempted to address gun violence through a variety of methods, including restricting firearms purchases by youths and other "at-risk" populations, setting waiting periods for firearm purchases, establishing gun buyback programs, law enforcement and policing strategies, stiff sentencing of gun law violators, education programs for parents and children, and community-outreach programs. Despite widespread concern about the impacts of gun violence on public health, Congress has banned the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) from conducting research on gun violence.[17]

The Congressional Research Service in 2009 estimated there were 310 million firearms in the U.S., not including weapons owned by the military. Of these, 114 million were handguns, 110 million were rifles, and 86 million were shotguns.[18] In that same year, the Census bureau stated the population of people in the U.S. at 306 million.[19] While the number of guns in civilian hands has been on the increase, the percentage of Americans and American households who claim to own guns has been in long-term decline. Thus, the Pew Research Center has extrapolated from this that "The percentage of American households with a gun has been steadily declining high of 54% in 1977 to 33% in 2009" and the "The average number of guns per owner has increased from 4.1 in 1994 to 6.9 in 2004.[20]

red baron wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 5:20pm:

Would you be a roofer, fisherman, construction worker, truck driver or miner for $1 million a year? You're more likely to be killed doing one of these jobs than you are being a police officer in the US.

Fuzzball wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 5:30pm:

Actually my username is after the Marquis de Lafayette. A Frenchman that left France and the benefits of aristocracy and luxury of wealth to fight in the US War of Independence against the British and in particular, for the principles of liberty. He's a great inspiration to me.

I'm in the Commonwealth of Virginia and you can open carry legally here. Just like you can in many states without need for a permit. That is not to say that I don't have a permit to carry concealed, but I very rarely conceal carry. I mostly open carry unless it benefits me not to.

I also live in a state where I don't need to pass a background check to buy a firearm. I can purchase one from a private seller and not show any ID nor pass any background check to obtain it.

Lafayette wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 1:26pm:


BS

Lafayette wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 5:34pm:


All your fancy open carry etc did not stop this nutcase/bloke. 

Link.

Lafayette wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 3:47pm:


and as usual, you are dead wrong.

red baron wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 5:41pm:

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-dangerous-jobs/

Being a cop is 14th on the list, it's more dangerous being a taxi driver lol.