People are shooting each other

Across the nation and around the world, people are sticking to their guns.

It's hard to find information about the rate of gun violence for this year, or even last year. I guess there's a bit of a delay in data processing considering the FBI doesn't have anything post-2005. You know the FBI, they're secretive, but one would hope they are at least aware of what's going on. In 2007 there were 16,929 murders in the United States and in 2005 there were roughly 475,000 incidents involving gun violence.

In this past week alone there have been a number of stories involving people getting shot on the east coast, including a turf war between lobster fishermen, a 72 year-old taking out four robbers, and a man withstanding seven bullets.