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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Guns aren't a problem as they are a part of the constitution, one could show any amount of stats,numbers and truths but in the end the people of the USA believe Islam is a far bigger problem than their constitutional right to have guns. Actually I would bet a lot of guns were bought since 9-11 to protect against Islamic terrorism.
Sorry but that one "little" act of september terror changed the way the west looks at a religion. Islam will not be respected by the west until the muslim moderates find a way to defeat the perverted/backwards and crazy sec of Islam.
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In summation: Facts don't matter, only perception.
Yeah, I know,
that's the problem.
White nationalists make it their bread and butter. When one could show "any amount of stats,numbers and truths" and be ignored in favor of a boogeyman made bigger by racists and bigots who prey on the weak-minded, then that's not really a defence of guns, that's an indictment of those people.
It's a shame one "little" act of september terror 16 years ago changed the way the west looks at religion, but the equivalent of 12+ "little" acts of gun violence that happen every year hasn't made a difference.
But stats and truth are rarely as powerful as the hate that forms racism and bigotry. Too bad.
Deaths of Americans from Terrorist Attacks (Worldwide) since 2001:
158
Deaths of Americans from Gun Homicide (U.S. only) since 2011-15:
57,822
Not including suicide, death by cop, or accidental deaths, there are (on average) 11,000 gun deaths per year, which means there have been 111,392% more homicides related to guns (in the U.S. alone) than there have been American homicide related to terrorism (in the entire world) since 2001.
Too bad, I guess.