The Onion nails it as usual: "Fuck Everything, Nation Reports" Also: "Report: It Okay To Spend Rest Of Day Curled In Fetal Position Under Desk"
From a woman who works at the local hospital - Catarina Rodrigues @catarina026 A 7 yr old boy came up to me & asked if I ever saw anyone die. I said "yes, sadly". He holds my hand & says "I saw my best friend die today"
If you really want to talk about gun control, you need to look at factors such as race and gun violence. Blacks in America make up 13% of the population yet account for 57% of the gun related homicides. http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/race.cfm#orace There's something going on in that culture that glorifies guns and murder. These crazy whites or asians doing these big shootings are outliers, meanwhile in the cities across america, its ingrained into the culture. Do you honestly believe there aren't more than 30 gun related homicides that will occur in the inner cities this weekend? It happens alot more than people think. This is just more spectacular and as I said, is an outlier...which is why it gets so much attention. But this is obviously about white republicans in the NRA. :MARIS61:
Might have something to do with desperation and poverty, too, which has a correlation with racial divides (not necessarily causation, of course).
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...it_mass_murder_before_automatic_weapons_.html Guns aren’t even the most lethal mass murder weapon. According to data compiled by Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, guns killed an average of 4.92 victims per mass murder in the United States during the 20th century, just edging out knives, blunt objects, and bare hands, which killed 4.52 people per incident. Fire killed 6.82 people per mass murder, while explosives far outpaced the other options at 20.82. Of the 25 deadliest mass murders in the 20th century, only 52 percent involved guns.
I love the gun-defender's position. 1. Guns aren't more dangerous than a whole bunch of other things - if you want to kill someone else you don't need a gun! 2. You can't take away my gun! It's irreplaceable! How am I going to protect myself?
My position is there are 80,000,000 gun owners in the country and a very small fraction of 1% of them are used in harmful ways. The anti-gun position seems to be "a guy lost control of his car and hit 20 people so let's get rid of all the cars."
Well, u be ignant then! :MARIS61: again, these are statistics of the breakdown of gun murders. of course you can't see this, but I could really give a flying fuck. this incident is isolated. it is statistically insignificant. basically in the scheme of gun violence as a whole, its not even close to what the real problem is with guns in america. its just a crazy guy going off the deep end. the whole "ra ra ra..ban guns" is nothing more than feel good rhetoric.
Guns do a whole lot more than kill or maim people. There are 300,000,000 guns in the USA, but nowhere near 300,000,000 shootings.
