# America!  It's People Helping People - Unless a 'scary' guy is involved

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**Created:** [June 24, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-its-people-helping-people-unless-a-scary-guy-is-involved/252031 "2004-06-24T15:55:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-its-people-helping-people-unless-a-scary-guy-is-involved/252031/201 "2004-07-01T19:34:11Z")

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> [@Snakespirit](#):
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> Actually, most guns are quite peaceful. And even among those guns that _have_ killed, the recidivism rate is quite low.
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> There are a few exceptions, however: military guns and police guns tend to be serial killers.

I…have no idea what that is supposed to mean.  
But I think that **SPOOFE** might be saying that many people have guns that are never fired at a human being. And maybe that many people are shot with guns and actually survive the wounds. IIRC, _most_ of the people shot in this country survived their wounds. I could be wrong about that, though.

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