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nightwing1240

(1,996 posts)
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 07:28 AM Jan 2023

Mass shootings: America's challenge for gun control

Firearms deaths are a fixture in American life.

There were 1.5 million of them between 1968 and 2017 - that's higher than the number of soldiers killed in every US conflict since the American War for Independence in 1775.

In 2020 alone, more than 45,000 Americans died at the end of a barrel of a gun, whether by homicide or suicide, more than any other year on record. The figure represents a 25% increase from five years prior, and a 43% increase from 2010.

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How do US gun killings compare with other countries?
In 2020, 43% of the deaths - amounting to 19,384 people - were homicides, according to data from the CDC. The figure represents a 34% increase from 2019, and a 75% increase over the course of the previous decade.

Nearly 53 people are killed each day by a firearm in the US, according to the data.

The data also shows that the vast majority of murders, 79%, were carried out with guns.

That's a significantly larger proportion of homicides than is the case in Canada, Australia, England and Wales, and many other countries.

More and charts at Link - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
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After yet another mass shooting, damn. I don't have the words for it at the moment other than tragic. Epidemic comes to mind too. Enough!

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Mass shootings: America's challenge for gun control (Original Post) nightwing1240 Jan 2023 OP
This should never ever be normal ...... Lovie777 Jan 2023 #1
It's become commonplace nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #2
Maybe guns don't kill people. The next thing is what person does the shootings? Srkdqltr Jan 2023 #4
Mass shootings' roots Jrose Jan 2023 #3
Like your term "Maga-Publicans", first time seeing it used KS Toronado Jan 2023 #9
Thanks for the welcome! Jrose Jan 2023 #10
Welcome Jrose! ❤️ littlemissmartypants Jan 2023 #12
Cute gif, KS. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Jan 2023 #11
Thanks, that's my Big Blue Wave is coming 2024 KS Toronado Jan 2023 #13
❤️ littlemissmartypants Jan 2023 #14
Very good KS Toronado Jan 2023 #16
I remember thinking OMG when George Bush Jr lifted the assault weapons ban in 2004 Woodswalker Jan 2023 #5
The ban wasn't lifted, it expired per its sunset clause DetroitLegalBeagle Jan 2023 #6
GWB did not lift the AWB, MarineCombatEngineer Jan 2023 #7
If the US wanted to stop gun deaths it could do so. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #8
OT: Who's the man you have as your avatar? ❤️ littlemissmartypants Jan 2023 #15
Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #17

Lovie777

(15,006 posts)
1. This should never ever be normal ......
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 07:34 AM
Jan 2023

ever. I heard someone the other day this quote again "guns don't kill, people do". WTF.

Srkdqltr

(7,661 posts)
4. Maybe guns don't kill people. The next thing is what person does the shootings?
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 07:54 AM
Jan 2023

Women? Maybe. I don't know of any mass killings by women but I don't know everything.
Seems like most killers are men.

So... maybe men could be excluded from owning or using a gun? That would cut down on mass shootings. A lot of people would still be alive today if men had been excluded from owning a gun. Seems guns and men are a bad combination.

Jrose

(1,341 posts)
3. Mass shootings' roots
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 07:52 AM
Jan 2023

Lies, racism, anti-Semitism, money and guns keep the Maga-Publicans afloat. Every American mass shooting leads back to them.

Jrose

(1,341 posts)
10. Thanks for the welcome!
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 06:37 PM
Jan 2023

Oh, I've used that term in a variety of online discussion sites .. as well as 'Maga-Loco' !

KS Toronado

(19,577 posts)
13. Thanks, that's my Big Blue Wave is coming 2024
Wed Jan 25, 2023, 02:10 AM
Jan 2023

You can right click on it and "save image link", paste it in a notepad and use it where you see fit.

 

Woodswalker

(549 posts)
5. I remember thinking OMG when George Bush Jr lifted the assault weapons ban in 2004
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 08:55 AM
Jan 2023

He did it under the guise that less than .5 percent of all gun crimes were being committed by assault weapons. No Shit Sherlock! They were Banned till the imbecile lifted the ban?????
Now it's been almost 20 years and Pandora's box has been open and Im pretty sure America is permanently fucked.
With smart marketing and NRA backing America's gun manufacturers have produced millions of these weapons of death and they aren't going away even if somehow a national ban on them were even possible.
I'm an older guy but if I was a young man starting out wanting to raise a family today I certainly wouldn't do it here. I've tested negative for nationalism decades ago.

DetroitLegalBeagle

(2,168 posts)
6. The ban wasn't lifted, it expired per its sunset clause
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 09:06 AM
Jan 2023

My understanding is the sunset clause was required for it to pass back in 1994. Bush claimed he would sign a renewal, but he did so knowing there was zero chance of it ever making it to his desk.

MarineCombatEngineer

(14,322 posts)
7. GWB did not lift the AWB,
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 09:35 AM
Jan 2023

the Congress failed to re up it, it never made it to GWB's desk, he said if it made it to him, he would sign it into law.

Irish_Dem

(57,542 posts)
8. If the US wanted to stop gun deaths it could do so.
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 09:35 AM
Jan 2023

But clearly there is no will to do it.

The US is a country which won the war for independence against all odds.
Won WWII against all odds.
Put a man on the moon.

But we can't stop madmen from murdering 6 year olds in their classrooms?

Sure.

nightwing1240

(1,996 posts)
17. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio
Wed Jan 25, 2023, 07:27 AM
Jan 2023

He's one of the few bright spots politically speaking in Ohio. I had hopes for Tim Ryan but in time perhaps

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