Bajablo said:
dirtylemons said:
I absolutely think the U.S. has a problem. Many of them, actually. But I assume that the reason you have a problem with school shootings is because they're violent, yes? If so, then I think it totally reasonable to ask why so many people are quick to pontificate about violence in the U.S., but also ignore the neighbouring country which fares much worse in this regard.
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you have one valid point in this.. and it's that you don't 'hear' about the shootings in other countries in the same manner.
However, i have no clue where you are getting your statistics from.. and how you hold Mexico, to the same standard as you would a 'US/UK/France/Germany/ ' (you should perhaps compare yourself to canada, pick one from the list that are in the ballpark.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index)
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistics/index.html
you own more guns per person of any country in the world. you are roughly 5% of the total population of the earth yet commit 31% (1966-2012) of all the mass shootings...(4 or more injured/dead is the definition apparently).
and.... how many of those weapon used were 'good legal guns'
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data/
(link to the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XV4mZi3gYDgwx5PrLwqqHTUlHkwkV-6uy_yeJh3X46o/edit#gid=0)
more data.. and would you know, people kill other people with those good happy legal guns...
Ok, i'm done.. just getting depressed from digging into more data about this.
have a great day and i hope the US wakes up at some point, but it seems waaaaay off as usual.
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The firearm statistics are from gunpolicy.org and the homicide rates are according to the United Nations.
As I mentioned in another post, the U.S. has more guns than it does cars, yet more people die in automobile-related incidents than firearm-related ones, more people use guns for self-defense than to commit murder and the most liberal estimates I've seen of how many legally acquired firearms are used to commit murder weren't much more than ten percent. All of the above suggests to me that simply tightening the existing regulations (at the very least) will not lead to a dramatic drop in violence, and could even potentially lead to the opposite.
