By Jueseppi B.
If there is any one article you need to read concerning gun rights, you MUST go over to The San Diego Free Press, and read this two part article.
A Cultural Comparison: Gun Violence In The US And Europe (Part 1)
And
Some Factual Gun Statistics – Part 2 of A Cultural Comparison: Gun Violence In The US And Europe
Both articles written By Frank Thomas and John Lawrence
A Cultural Comparison: Gun Violence In The US And Europe (Part 1)
While US gun crime and all crime levels are slowly but almost imperceptibly declining, they still remain relatively astronomically high compared with Europe. In this article, we compare US and European levels of gun violence and gun control to see if we can make any sense of the gun debate in the wake of the increasing frequency of mass murders as well as the almost mundane everyday killings in urban areas like Chicago and Detroit. Frank is an ex-pat who has lived in Europe for over 30 years. John has lived in San Diego for over 40 years.
It’s time to get serious on prohibiting gun acquisition or possession by people with a history of mental illness and by high risk groups such as felons, drug addicts or alcoholics. It’s time to get serious on limiting civilian gun sales to one shot at a time pistols and rifles with cartridge or chamber capacities of no more than six bullets. It’s time to get serious on conducting thorough criminal and mental health background checks and having waiting periods for high risk people and first-time buyers seeking gun permits.
Complicating matters, in my (John’s) view, is that most mass murderers have no prior record of mental illness nor have they obtained their guns illegally. The main problem, we believe, is that so many legal and illegal guns are out there, particularly powerful high bullet capacity semi-automatic weapons and assault type pistols and rifles, that only an all-out effort to get them off the street and out of households is going to do any good. It’s the easy availability and sheer number of guns that creates our unique climate of gun violence.
Read the entire part one at A Cultural Comparison: Gun Violence In The US And Europe (Part 1)
Some Factual Gun Statistics – Part 2 of A Cultural Comparison: Gun Violence In The US And Europe
Continued from Part 1
In almost every measurable statistic whether it be gun ownership, gun homicide rate or total firearm-related deaths including suicides and accidents, the US leads the world in deadly gun violence. Although statistics show that a firearm in the household is more likely to be used on a family member than an intruder, the NRA promotes gun ownership as a means of self-protection and as a crime deterrent.
Britain has a much stricter gun control culture with relatively few guns in households. You couldn´t get a more murder free society than Britain or Japan which has banned practically all guns. In contrast, America has as many firearms as there are people – a situation made irreversibly dangerous knowing that guns have at least a 100-year life cycle.
While the original primary motivation for an armed populace under the 2nd Amendment was to defend against tyrants and invaders, America´s last 60 years of an accelerating gun ownership dynamic –legal and illegal – is now perceived and promoted as an absolute necessity to defend ourselves against outrageous, multiple crime subcultures and misfits. The fact that there are so many guns out there seems to justify the rationale that even more guns are necessary in an ever expanding feedback loop. If it is correct that the size of the national gun collection is directly related and proportional to gun violence levels in the U.S., then, as the total number of guns in the hands of the American people continues to grow, so will the level of gun violence.
Read the entire part two at Some Factual Gun Statistics – Part 2 of A Cultural Comparison: Gun Violence In The US And Europe.
Te read the entire two part article, please visit The San Diego Free Press.
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Jueseppi B.
Fewer guns = less gun violence. Seems like a no-brainer. The raw data bears this out. Unfortunately, many statistical analyses put forth what seem to be reasonable refutations of the facts. Whichever side of the argument you believe, you can make the data fit your theory.
Example: A U Penn study concludes households with guns are 4.5 times more likely to suffer a gun death than those without. The study further concludes (erroneously) that it is safer to not own a gun. The study fails to take into account any other environmental factors beyond geography. The data is inarguable, but other factors such as arrest records, mental health, history of domestic violence would certainly skew the data, rendering the conclusions invalid.
Here’s some raw data for you….if there were no guns of any type, count the many Millions of humans that would be alive today. No guns, the total of lives lost by senseless violence would be drastically reduced. Now refute that fact.
Every single gun manufacturing plant should be refitted to mass produce solar power turbines, and housing for the homeless or how about turn the factories into schools. I mean how many billions of dollars do gun corporations need to make in a lifetime?
Go Suck A Black Dick….Fool.
Really great sound articles! We’ve just got to insist and stay on top of this NRA backlash like white on rice! It’s no other way, we have the voting numbers advantage to change all things NRA Extremist if we really stick together to do this. Granted it ain’t gonna be easy at all but it can be done and we need to get it done now. Pres. Obama and VP Biden is our best and strongest bet to do this the right way once and for all. Who knows who will be following this pair. Keep on push Mr Hack, I know you will and I intend to push until this mess is better controlled the way We The People want it!! It just must be!
So we be pushing together…..Thats my Carrots.