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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I think that I read somewhere that in the U.S. gun based homicides sits at 3.8 per 100,000 population. In Canada its .5 and the UK its .1. That alone is a stunning stat.
Thats 11,844 people in the U.S. killed per year by firearms. That alone has to speak to some sort or availability problem.
What the States is currently doing in terms of gun violence, in terms of the mental health issue its going to be the sexy topic right now because most of these mass murderers are classified as ill, though not all of them are.
But there's a ton of smaller crimes that don't get attention where the killer is not mentally ill and still uses a gun.
To be clear the old saying that guns don't kill people, people kill people is stupid. A gun is an enabling tool to do it quickly in the heat of the moment. The easy access to the tool to conform to a archaic constitutional right to protect against a corrupt government is coming to the point of stupid. Sometimes in rare instances public safety and societal requirements over come some civil liberties.
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On the other hand, the us murder rate is 4.2, while Canada is 1.6. Not nearly the difference when you look at it that way. The telling statistic though is that the black murder rate in the us is about 15 and the white murder rate is around 2.5. The US has a race problem much more than it has a gun problem.
While banning assault rifles and getting people mental health help are both good things, they are not going to save any kind of significantly statistical amounts of lives. Focusing resources and efforts on these types of things will help people who feel lke they need to do something, but if saving lives that are lost to preventable deaths is the goal, it is not where our efforts should be focused.
And if it is the murder rate that we want to go down, we need to figure out why black people are killing each other and what could be done to help. Because my guess is the motivations and reasons for murder are a lot different in a poor black community than they are for a young middle class mass murderer.