Children getting shot up at school is just a way of life we all have to accept according to American leadership.
Looks to me like the United States of Epstein is Firearms Georg. The correlation is pretty weak for the rest of the data.
Though you shouldn't listen to me, I'm not a stasts- statitcis- uh, data ninja
100% agreed.
Simply pathetic. I'm gun owner and I fully support firearms registration, proper licensing which includes a thorough background check, school, psychological check and an annual visit from law enforcement to make fucking sure everything is OK.
The US gun laws are sick.
I fully support a highly limited access to guns, only in specialized locations for gun clubs, that's it
There is no need for people to have guns. Want to hunt? Be an official hunter or get limited to bow and arrow. "Self defense"? That rarely works and when in a country without guns, you don't need guns for self defense.
Basically, nobody should have guns because even the highly responsible ownership still has people using guns to murder each other. Responsible people still commit suicide or murder suicides with guns, they still use them for crimes, they still use them for loads of bad shit.
The only honest argument for gun ownership is that guns are fun toys. They're cool, and there are 500 shitty excuses that are being used instead. No, you don't need guns, you want guns, because it's cool.
Guns should be as much as possible be eliminated
Firearm sales have TRIPLED since 2000.
Fun fact: Gun sales (and production) don't dip under Democratic leadership. USA is world's number one arms dealer (all weapons)
Every state is involved in the firearms industry, even Hawaii.
Hold up. The US has over 100 guns per 100 people? π³ So on average, everyone owns at least one gun? Tell me I'm reading that wrong!
Unironically, the average person doesn't actually own a gun, but the average gun owner owns several
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/06/22/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership/
This is from 2017, almost 10 years old. I'd be interested to see how much it's changed, if at all, especially since there's that 30% who could see owning one in the future.
Arguing that the populace shouldn't have guns, and pointing to the usa as an example, is arguing that our fascist government should have a monopoly on violence. Every successful "gun control" law has been put in place in response to persecuted minorities and activist groups having guns. For a famous example, see the Black Panthers.
Peaceful protests are impotent unless backed by a genuine threat of violence. See how little the recent "No Kings" protests have accomplished vs the death of that one health insurance ceo.
Now, I am in favor of fewer guns, but the order of operations is important. Let's start with disarming the police and abolishing ice. So long as my friends/family/neighbors/whatevers are being abducted by masked thugs in broad daylight, it is my right and my duty to defend with lethal force.
You're a big tough guy, so I'm pretty sure you've heard of The Art of War by Sun Tzu. One of the premises of that book is that you should attack your enemy where they're weakest, not where they're strongest. Makes sense, right? Well where do you think the Trump regime is strongest? Put another way, who do you think would win in a shootout between, say, the U.S. Army and a ragtag bunch of armed leftists?
So if we can't fight the regime where they're strongest, where can we fight them? Economically. We can stop giving our hard-earned money to the companies that prop up the regime. We can do work stoppages to halt the engines that power the regime. And we can raise awareness of these issues (yes, sometimes by protests but also with other tactics) so this becomes a mass movement that has the power to actually topple the regime's pillars of support.
Yeahbwe should just make a campfire and talk to them while we are at it maybe get scoutmaster Dan to play the guitar for us while we all figure our peaceful solutions together.
They murder us in the street at protests, idk if you have seen it on tv. They are singlehandedly crashing the economy on purpose so they can extract as much from it for themselves as they can.
I would love for school shootings to stop and I think if a kid gets a gun there is an adult or likely a few that fucked up and shouldn't have given the kid a gun.
But taking them away from all of us isnt going to get the north side of Saint Louis or the south side of Chicago to just give them up this is what I don't get you think when they made meth illegal it just disappeared? Can't find it anymore right?
This whole take the guns away stance is them brainwashing you into believing that they will do right once you don't have guns anymore.
They aren't raking them away from the police. They aren't taking them away from ice. And the IRS. Until they do that, fuck them I will have guns and I will suggest others do too. Just keep them away from your kids
First, where did I say anything about talking to the fascists? Or say anything about taking away people's guns? Seriously, I wonder who the hell you're arguing against, because it sure isn't me.
And yes, the regime is murdering people in the streets and breaking the economy. But only the parts of the economy that aren't propping up their regime. What do you think would happen if they could no longer find hotels for the ICE agents they send around the country to harass and murder people? If nobody would feed the agents or launder their uniforms? Or rent them cars? Or fly the airplanes needed to send kidnapped people to foreign countries?
Our strength as the masses is in our economic leverage. And it's about damned time we played to our strengths instead of trying to meet the enemy at theirs.
Can you tell me a single time in written history that an empire the size of the United States was toppled by the people without violence?
The world isn't a fairytale and I really wish it wasn't that way either but acting like it isn't won't help.
notice how in the graph on wikipedia, excluding USA, the correlation is really not that strong.
dont get me wrong, i agree with the general sentiment, but bad data weakens even the best of cases.
I get the point the comic is trying to make, but saying that more guns means more people die from guns isn't really a "gotcha"... In places with fewer guns, fewer people are using guns to do their murderings.
I'd be more interested in a graph that shows total murders per capita compared to gun ownership per capita.
Before I get dog-piled, I'd like to add that I know that there are too many guns in the US, and the process to buy a firearm is surprisingly lax. I do think there is a relationship between gun ownership and the murder rates, and the fact that most school shootings don't even make the news anymore (and if they do, it's for less than a day) indicates that the frogs have been completely boiled at this point.
another way these facts get skewed: most gun deaths are suicides, not homicides
in the US, states with the strictest gun laws do also have the lowest suicide rates, maybe because when there isn't an easy way to quickly exit, fewer people do - and the same reasoning probably applies to homicides
either way, there are also accidental gun deaths (kids accidentally shooting themselves or others because they're playing with daddy's gun, etc.) - so gun policies absolutely do save or cost lives
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