We banning guns yet? Alright see yall next mass shooting
Where were all the good people with guns ensuring that peace would erupt instead?
Well you see the proliferation of firearms always benefits the violent criminal over the heroic defender. Always. It’s a losing race.
Even back to the Wild West, places like Tombstone and Dodge City would come to implement gun control laws because, surprise, being mutually armed doesn’t help when the other guy has both the element of surprise and willingness to fire first.
But if it fails in real life, try, try again!
Not risking their lives to help you. They’re in it for themselves because they’re scared. They’re afraid of brown people because they’re told to be. They’re puppets to the propaganda and get their info from fox “news”
On average, the rate of a vigilante saving the day is one in 7,000. There’s no record of the number of shootings caused by bad vigilantes, though, so we don’t know if that 1:7000 is a net-positive.
Great stat.
The same folk are gonna win the lotto, tho’!
Alright see ya Tuesday man.
You may have to wait 'til Tuesday* for the next TV-publicized mass shooting, but it wasn’t twelve hours before the next actual mass-shooting event occured:
- 1 death and 7 surviving victims of a shooter on 2523 W Broadway, Louisville KY USA 40211, with no arrest shown
Note that the mass shooting in Arkansas is almost a Mass Killing, as a 3rd victim has now died.
In general, there are on average more than one mass shooting every day in America, and often a high number in a day. On the 15th of June, barely a week ago, there were SIX mass shootings - Cincinatti, Southfield MI, Rochester MI, Detroit, RoundRock, Tuskegee - and 4 of the 51 total victims died. SIX MASS SHOOTINGS reported by newsmedia IN A DAY, but the record I think is 8.
Anyway, I just came to say you may not need to wait four days for the next one, that 4 hours is usually plenty. 'Murica.
*Voices carry.
I can’t wait that long!
Probably won’t have to.
Yeah. It can happen as often as every three hours.
We have social issues… remove guns tomorrow, the people are still the same.
Many other countries have proper gun cultures. Why can’t US do the same?
remove guns tomorrow, the people are still the same.
Oh theres one big difference, they are far less lethal.
Many other countries have proper gun cultures.
Compared to the US, no other country on earth has a gun culture. Most people in most countries do not have guns, and most countries have much stricter gun control than the US.
Compared to the US, no other country on earth has a gun culture.
[citation needed]
Immediately, certain Middle Eastern countries where people celebrate by firing guns into the air come to mind.
Stupid people treating guns like toys is a product of the abundance of guns, not the cause.
If you placed those same people in a place where guns aren’t freely available I dohbt they would seek out guns for the sake of firing them off at a wedding.
That’s not really commenting on my point, which is that these places also have gun cultures. The US is not unique in that.
I haven’t spent any time in the Middle East, so please forgive my armchair analysis if you are more versed in the culture, but it seems like they have a legitimate need for guns, given how unstable the region is, rather than seeking guns out because of a deification like the US.
deification
This is almost a more fitting description than ‘fetish’ or ‘idolatry’.
Third world countries are the closest to our gun culture, but even then the guns per capita are like a third of the US. Shit man, i could tell you we have more guns than people, at 120 guns for every 100 people. But no one else is close to hitting 100, god no country is even anywhere near 60, fully half of the gun proliferation in the US.
For the rest of the world, 30 guns per 100 people is a staggering amount of guns, and most developed countries are far below that.
You are poorly educated and citing generic stats with out understanding what you were just told.
Cool Americans will over buy guns, true. We are talking here peoples conduct with weapons.
Countries that have hostile neighbors or OG territorial approach, thinks swiss or Sweden, ave a gun culture and it is focused around defense and sport.
Not pro, I am sure there are others.
Gun ownership is not uniquely american, excess crime related to guns is tho.
Ps. it is likely possible to link it avaliability as a factor. However, banning guns won’t solve underlying social issues.
There is also Finland, which has around 34 guns per 100 inhabitants, amongst the highest of the western world. It has a cun culture of defense (against its untrustworthy Russian neighbor), hunting and sports. But there is strict registration and regulation. Though they can buy just about any type of gun, there is no open carry “for funsies”. Carrying/transporting the guns requires an immediate purpose and must be held, unloaded, in a case or pouch. (I am not Finnish so correct me if I am wrong)
I have a bit of a feeling it’s in the US a thing of “He has a gun, so I want a gun” that reinforces itself, and after a while gets people careless since it’s a fairly common thing.
In the UK there was a study where forbidding handheld guns, mainly pistols, did see a sharp decline in gun related crime but they did not banish it completely.
I don’t know the numbers but in the US it seems pistols make it easier to act upon one’s mental state … have a tiff with your neighbor? Go to his door with a gun on your belt. A car just cut you off? Explode in rage, pull up next to him/her on a traffic light and swing your pistol around, try doing that with a non automatic hunting rifle.
You are poorly educated and citing generic stats with out understanding what you were just told.
This is a way to win people over.
Cool Americans will over buy guns, true. We are talking here peoples conduct with weapons.
Goal posts moved while-u-wait.
We are talking here peoples conduct with weapons.
Mostly their conduct is not having one
If you remove guns, the incidences of “stern glares” and “finger wagging” skyrocket, resulting in increases in hurt feelings and carpal tunnel.
proper gun cultures
This is absurd. CAN there be a culture around “I dream of all the things I can kill with this” ?
As former infantry, ‘gun culture’ sounds as fleeting as ‘dynamite culture.’
One of the reasons is because Americans buy cheap guns for peasants while in places like the UK people buy expensive works of art like Holland & Holland rifles.
Over thier dead bodies!
Where wolf?
And over there. And a couple more over there. And one there too.
over there. And a couple more over there. And one there too.
‘Summer’ bodies.
Not giving up my rights because criminals break the law.
The right to kill people is pretty nonsense
Many of these criminals used to be a “good guy with a gun” until, one day, it snapped.
There’s a reason why the US stands out of gun violence, and it’s the easy access to weapons.
I used to be anti-gun, until I found out that Canadians own guns at the same rate as TEXANS. We Americans are losing our fucking minds. We’re kept at each other’s throats to distract us from the fact that the 1% are fucking us all over.
Look at the regs surrounding gun ownership in Canada.
Not the same animal at all.
Plenty of countries allow guns, but the rules for their use and ownership are far more restrictive than the relative free for all we have in the US.
We didn’t use to … until the NRA and America’s 2nd Amendment defenders started pushing across our border. Source
I don’t understand. Are you assuming every person in California is a Democrat and every person in Texas is a Republican? Those are the most populous states in the country. You are looking at a huge chunk of the country, of course they both have tons of guns. Every state has tons of guns.
The stat that I had read was that on average Texans own guns at a rate of 4 per person, so for every person that doesn’t own any, there has to be someone taking up the slack. The joke is that Texans are a distillation of what America is to the rest of the world: loud, obnoxious, and absolutely sure they’re right.
The point I was trying to make is that even though Canadians own a shitload more guns per capita, they have far less gun violence than us.
The ONLY way to this could have been Prevented was if the Officer SHOT the gunman First before he could KILL anyone! And the only way the Officer could have known there was a Crazy Murderous Gunman afoot was if he simply SHOT everyone in the store! Therefore Police should be able to Murder people without cause.
Minority Report: Special EDition.
What’s really fucked up is I couldn’t tell this was sarcastic until the end.
Or maybe reduce gun ownership in the US, so that it’s less likely that people falling into despair attempt suicide by cop?
One law enforcement officer was among those wounded, Arkansas State Police said.
Maybe if enough of their heroic boys in blue that they salute with their special flag are wounded, we’ll start being able to talk about guns like adults.
Or politicians. And let me be clear to the mods and admins I am not advocating for this I am simply stating a fact.
“What gun problem are you talking about? I only see a freedom problem, and that’s the best type of problem to have!”
that man gave a lot of bullets their freedom that day.
Tots and Pears.