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Really! It’s all good.
Making a mountain out of molehill.
Don't you think we should deal with facts, rather than hyperbole. We hear "THIS ONLY HAPPENS IN THE USA" all the time from you people, even though it's false.
To offer a counterpoint to the snark that has been added to this thread already - my take on what paracord and katharsis point out, taken together and echoing a point I made in another thread is that if you consider the numbers within the context of how much freedom our country has...Americans are remarkably, astonishingly, unbelievably trustworthy, safe and cooperative where firearms are concerned.
We have maybe the most permissive gun culture in the world, yet we are underrepresented in violence with guns by 63% on the global scale. Internally, 99.94% of all firearms owners have/will never use their firearms for violence, and that percentage comes from extrapolating the statistics in the most negative direction possible towards the American people. It is more likely to around 99.98 if you used medians and normalized over time according to linear regression.
Given our freedom of movement, privacy, innocent until proven guilty, 2A protections, etc etc....it's pretty phenomenal just how relatively NON-violent our culture is.
USA Accounts for 1.5% of the World's "Mass Shooting" Deaths
Oh, well then what's the urgency?
In the proper context, there isn't any. It's amazing how many mass shootings there are in countries that have no guns. Sounds like other countries need to get their house in order before casting stones.
USA Accounts for 1.5% of the World's "Mass Shooting" Deaths
Oh, well then what's the urgency?
What's your source?
Compared 171 countries from 1966 to 2012 the United States accounted for only 5% of the world’s population, but 31% of its mass shootings. https://worldpopulationreview.com/co...ngs-by-country
Firearms deaths are a fixture in American life.
There were 1.5 million of them between 1968 and 2017 - that's higher than the number of soldiers killed in every US conflict since the American War for Independence in 1775. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
What's your source?
Compared 171 countries from 1966 to 2012 the United States accounted for only 5% of the world’s population, but 31% of its mass shootings. https://worldpopulationreview.com/co...ngs-by-country
Firearms deaths are a fixture in American life.
There were 1.5 million of them between 1968 and 2017 - that's higher than the number of soldiers killed in every US conflict since the American War for Independence in 1775. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
True...ONLY ONE MASS SHOOTING SINCE 1996 in Australia when gun laws changed!
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