Apparenly you've gotten a bit triggered (no pun intended, honest) and have exposed a few gaps in your own knowledge (and as a result, I've had to update my own knowledge a bit with a quick Google). Here's a Pew Research article on gun violence and deaths (you know what a gun death is). Pew is considered one of the least biased sources fo…
Apparenly you've gotten a bit triggered (no pun intended, honest) and have exposed a few gaps in your own knowledge (and as a result, I've had to update my own knowledge a bit with a quick Google). Here's a Pew Research article on gun violence and deaths (you know what a gun death is). Pew is considered one of the least biased sources for information according to Media Bias Fact Check.
- In 2017, 60% of gun deaths were suicide (down a bit; but the murders committed by gun may have done that because....
- 75% of all US murders were committed with a gun (they're the easiest way to kill yourself and others!
There are other not-so fun stats but I'll note that I have read up on guns, including a few books over the years (one of them responsibly pro-gun, the other more neutral) and I'll also remind you I haven't called for banning all guns, just idiots with guns. At this point you're beginning to repeat NRA ideology so I'll leave this thing here. The facts are firmly on my side when it comes to the availability of guns and gun violence. Where they are easily accessible, they are directly linked to higher gun violence, and *every* society has angry young men.
It's just some are smart enough to keep them out of the hands of....idiots.
BTW, I realized a few years ago I don't give a damn how many women of any political stripe own guns...clearly, we're not running around killing ourselves or others like strangers or domestic partners the way men clearly do. So when I talk about keeping them out of the hands of 'idiots', yeah, I mean pretty much men. But still...only the idiot men who can't handle the responsibility of gun ownership. You and your buds sound like exceptions. So rock on.
Apparenly you've gotten a bit triggered (no pun intended, honest) and have exposed a few gaps in your own knowledge (and as a result, I've had to update my own knowledge a bit with a quick Google). Here's a Pew Research article on gun violence and deaths (you know what a gun death is). Pew is considered one of the least biased sources for information according to Media Bias Fact Check.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/16/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
The highlights:
- In 2017, 60% of gun deaths were suicide (down a bit; but the murders committed by gun may have done that because....
- 75% of all US murders were committed with a gun (they're the easiest way to kill yourself and others!
There are other not-so fun stats but I'll note that I have read up on guns, including a few books over the years (one of them responsibly pro-gun, the other more neutral) and I'll also remind you I haven't called for banning all guns, just idiots with guns. At this point you're beginning to repeat NRA ideology so I'll leave this thing here. The facts are firmly on my side when it comes to the availability of guns and gun violence. Where they are easily accessible, they are directly linked to higher gun violence, and *every* society has angry young men.
It's just some are smart enough to keep them out of the hands of....idiots.
BTW, I realized a few years ago I don't give a damn how many women of any political stripe own guns...clearly, we're not running around killing ourselves or others like strangers or domestic partners the way men clearly do. So when I talk about keeping them out of the hands of 'idiots', yeah, I mean pretty much men. But still...only the idiot men who can't handle the responsibility of gun ownership. You and your buds sound like exceptions. So rock on.