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Sort of misleading, while true to the only two causes you mention it ignores the totality.Shooting continues to be the leading cause of death among American children, higher than car accidents or medical causes. No other industrial nation has firearms in the top five, let alone first. This is not a place America wants to be first. You have a serious gun problem.
While accidents in general remain the most common cause of death in youth, for those ages 1 to 24 years, death due to gun violence and accidental injury are now more common than death due to motor vehicle accidents.
Shooting continues to be the leading cause of death among American children, higher than car accidents or medical causes. No other industrial nation has firearms in the top five, let alone first. This is not a place America wants to be first. You have a serious gun problem.
Yep, perhaps that‘s why (non-justifiable) homicide is a felony and improper use of pronouns isn’t.
No it isn'tShooting continues to be the leading cause of death among American children, higher than car accidents or medical causes.
Nothing else works. Where do the criminals get the guns but from "law abiding citizens" (who don't)?No, we have a serious crime problem, spurred largely by violent street gangs wrangling for local control of the drug trade. Taking or regulating guns possessed by law-abiding citizens won’t do a thing to address this problem.
So what is your point? That criminals steal things that aren't theirs? Thanks Captain Obvious. Don't start down that road of blaming legal possessors for having their firearms stolen. There is a thread for that somewhere in the ether here. If you don't agree with the term "illegal gun", fine. What people mean by that is a "illegally possessed" gun. Semantics........Every firearm that is used in a crime was manufactured legally, and sold legally at least once.
There is no such thing as an illegal gun, they were all sold legally at least once.
No it isn't
Not according to a 6-3 SCOTUS vote in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections in 1966Of course you can
They get the guns a number of ways. By stealing them, buying off of the black market, or by knowing someone who may be a criminal, but has never been caught therefore has no criminal record and so can participate in a straw purchase.Nothing else works. Where do the criminals get the guns but from "law abiding citizens" (who don't)?
Just applies to poll taxNot according to a 6-3 SCOTUS vote in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections in 1966
Should we be blaming the gun instead?So what is your point? That criminals steal things that aren't theirs? Thanks Captain Obvious. Don't start down that road of blaming legal possessors for having their firearms stolen. There is a thread for that somewhere in the ether here. If you don't agree with the term "illegal gun", fine. What people mean by that is a "illegally possessed" gun. Semantics........
I deny it, because it's demonstrably false. Your citation goes up to age 24, and starts at age 1. Had you not been dishonest, you would show stats of actual children, from birth up to age 18. So, when you claimed gun deaths is the leading cause of death for children, you were lying.You may deny it, but reality differs.
(Cue tortuous redefinition of terms)
Child and Teen Firearm Mortality in the U.S. and Peer Countries | KFF
Firearms were responsible for 20 percent of all child and teen deaths in the U.S. for both 2020 and 2021, compared to an average of less than 2 percent in similarly large and wealthy nations. This puts the U.S. far ahead of peer nations in child and teen firearm deaths.www.kff.org
That must've been some rooster. Did he get a small statue in the town square like George Floyd did?Oh, no doubt, and I didn’t mean to imply they didn’t. My point was, while we’re, of course concerned about the decay in the larger American society, one benefit of not living in a crime-ridden city is we have time to worry and reflect about the small stuff and just have fun living.
Actually, they held a New Orleans-style second line funeral and celebration of life event for him. It turned into a big, downtown parade and block party. He even made news in Britain and around the world, probably because we did give a shit about a dead rooster even though we still love our Popeye’s Louisiana Fried Chicken.
18,000 mourn rooster after he was killed by corrections officer
The murder of a rooster in a small city in Mississippi has sparked outrage, outpourings of adoration, promises of revenge, and murals in memory of the deceased chicken.www.dailymail.co.uk
My loss, I guess.Maybe if you had worded your original comment to me in a way more conducive to discussion, I'd have given you a different response.
Your cousin should be incarcerated without parole for contributing to the deaths of stupid people who will try anything for a 'high'.My cousin who dropped out of high school can make meth with stuff from Wal-mart.
It's pathetic to compare that to the manufacture of firearms.
If you want to find high per capita crime....look for a red stateYour cousin should be incarcerated without parole for contributing to the deaths of stupid people who will try anything for a 'high'.
The former president of the Philippines would have had him executing without question a few years ago.
Arlevah's post makes a lot of sense. Eventually, people will realize that is what we will need in this country to show the Progressives they are idiots when it comes to crime and drugs.
Does anyone really care if the Christian god is a male or female.?Call the Christian God a "she" and watch how quickly Trumpers care about pronouns.
No, we have a serious crime problem, spurred largely by violent street gangs wrangling for local control of the drug trade. Taking or regulating guns possessed by law-abiding citizens won’t do a thing to address this problem.
On a per capita basis, there were 13.6 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 2020 – the highest rate since the mid-1990s, but still well below the peak of 16.3 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 1974.
Nothing else works. Where do the criminals get the guns but from "law abiding citizens" (who don't)?
Has the USA always had a "serious crime spurred by violent street gangs wrangling for local control of the gun trade?" Seems like Pew demonstrate that gun crime as a proportion of the population has stayed remarkably stable over the last 50-60 years at least. The high peak is late 70's into the 80's
What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.
More Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2021 than in any other year on record, according to the latest available statistics from the CDC.www.pewresearch.org
Actually gun deaths are upSo guns are up but crime is down, so let’s ban guns! I can see how that would make perfect sense to a liberal.
To answer your question, yeah, I would say most violent crime in this country in recent decades has involved drug distribution at the street level to one degree or another, whether we’re talking about heroin and marijuana in the ‘70s, cocaine and marijuana in the ‘80’s and’90s, or pretty much everything—marijuana, heroin, meth, opioids, fentanyl—ever since.
Actually gun deaths are up
Just one.
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