Police are doing a better job targeting and arresting violent offenders. Doctors and medics are saving more shooting victims, and new and better technologies are contributing to all of the above and to our day-to-day safety.
And then he makes these points.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.• Fewer than 1 percent of gun deaths in the United States involve self-defense. The majority are homicides, suicides and accidents.
• Epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that those without guns are four times safer than those with guns when confronted by an armed assailant.
• Gun death rates are highest in the states with the highest ratios of gun ownership.
• Fatal police shootings increased last year by 40 percent.
•Of the 23 highest-income-per-capita countries in the world, the United States has 80 percent of all gun deaths. The U.S. gun homicide rate is 20 times higher than that of the rest of the sample.
"Among the impediments are that we view gun ownership as an individual right"
ReplyDeleteDolan is an anti-liberty extremist.
"we would impinge on those rights for the common good."
The man obviously hasn't learned the lesson of Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Germany, the Soviet Union, China, etc.
"Fewer than 1 percent of gun deaths in the United States involve self-defense. The majority are homicides, suicides and accidents."
ReplyDeleteSure. But defensive gun uses far number the deaths by at least 20-to-one. Gotta look at all the angles, not just the ones you want to see.
...Orygunner...
Anonymous, aren't you tired of repeating the same old bullshit. We're in the 21st Century in the USA, you you said this?
ReplyDelete"The man obviously hasn't learned the lesson of Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Germany, the Soviet Union, China, etc."
That's irrational fear-driven, self-serving nonsense used to justify the difficult-to-justify.
"That's irrational fear-driven, self-serving nonsense used to justify the difficult-to-justify."
ReplyDeleteWow Mike, I didn't know there was a statute of limitations on genocide.
FWM, Is there a realistic possibility of it happening to you? Is there any possibility?
ReplyDelete@Mikeb, I'm sure if you asked the German Jews in the 1920's that same question, they would have said "No, don't be silly!"
ReplyDeleteYou have no crystal ball to know the future, you can only assume, as I do, that the chance American people will be slain by their government is implausibly thin. I certainly don't see it happening in our future, but you never DO know what the future can hold, do you?
There's been enough instances of governments disarming their citizens prior to genocide to give gun control a bad enough rap as it is. sure, many countries have gun control that HAVEN'T attacked their people, but to pooh-pooh it off as utterly impossible is to forget the lessons of history.
Hey, I have a "what if" for you. What if our society totally breaks down, the government goes bankrupt and shut down, leaving the American people to their own devices and their own protection? How's an Assault Weapons Ban and 10-round magazine limits going to make anybody safer anybody then? I see that as much more likely of a possibility than our government committing any sort of genocide - but, and a BIG but, still extremely unlikely.
...Orygunner...