This is the year 2011, not the time of the 1800's Wild, Wild West. But you wouldn't know it by counting the amount of people killed by guns in this country! Firearms are a big problem in the United States of America and we need to find a better solution.The National Rifle Association (NRA) wants all Americans to own a gun and hence be safer. But unfortunately, having so many guns will not make us safer. Contrary to what the NRA mentions, it is actually making our country far more dangerous than we want to admit. Why? Because arming citizens with firearms is the wrong approach. Other countries have taken a different approach toward deadly crime by taking away firearms from their citizens. The results of this action have been astonishingly positive in the number of deaths related to guns. The NRA refers to laws that are archaic by nature, in order to justify American's carrying guns. Unlike the Wild, Wild West, today's civilization is perfectly able to deal with differences amongst it's citizens by going to courts where laws are enforced.
The United Kingdom does not allow it's citizens to carry firearms. Most of their police officers, except for a few, don't even carry guns! United Kingdom police officers rely mostly on Tasers for controlling crime. Due to this less deadly transition made by their police, the United Kingdom has far less citizen casualties than the United States does. In fact this is a trend happening in many civilized nations.
Below are some numbers that don't lie. These are figures taken from legit sources and they reflect some pretty amazing results.
Gun fatalities for the year 2000
(Includes suicides, homocides and accidents)
United States: National Safety Council...... 28,163
United Kingdom: Gun Control Network.......... 204
How many more casualties should we withstand in our society before we learn and change our system?
Link References:
http://www.nsc.org/Pages/Home.aspx
http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF07.htm
14 comments:
Yes the rapists are raining from the sky, this is why we have to saturate the inner cities with so many guns that you can get em for song. 34 dead a day, just so you can pretend that you are safer. Be proactive, go hunt suspected rapists. What normalizes this insanity is the paranoid redneck notions of uninformed people who live in fear.
So this says over 20,000 people died in gun related 'incedents' in 2000. How about we ban cars? With over 40,000 deaths in 2000.
This has got to be one of the most misguided "articles" that I have ever read.
No statistics back up these claims.
It just boggles my mind that rational people think that becoming an entire nation of unarmed victims will solve anything.
Do the research, the facts don't lie or try to put a spin on the outcome. I don't feel like an unarmed victim, but this is a cultural change and will take a generation or two to accept that you don't need a gun in every house, pocket or bag.
I would have to suppose that if one were to do a pure numbers count, between 1800s and 2011, it would surely be astonishing. However, if you do an apples to apples comparison of the number of persons killed by guns in, let’s say 1885 per total population of the United States at that time and the number of persons killed by guns in 2011 per total population it might tell a different story.
Just a sideline here, the number of person killed in Automobile accidents in 2011 was over 32,000. Don’t you suppose we should ban cars too?
Numbers are numbers, and are usually skewed to the advantage of who is doing what with them. The real issue here isn’t guns there are many different aspects to the “gun violence” problem. If you did a hard analyses you would have to conclude that criminals and violence are one of the major factors of “gun violence” and persons who commit mass murders are not, percentage wise, that high of a number. The problem is that when these dastardly incidents happen they are always on innocent victims and always made into media circuses.
You rarely hear, at a national level, a few gangbangers doing each other in via firearms, or Police doing in bad guys, because the numbers are very much lower. You hardly hear of accidental shootings for the same reason, and you’ll never hear of a good guy defending his or someone else’s life by doing in a bad gay with ill intentions.
Now to the meat of the matter, if you allow government to seize or ban guns, you will have allowed government to circumvent the Second Amendment and defeat its purpose. Liberty and Freedom has a price and Americans have paid that price since the inception of this Republic. Why do you think that no enemy has invaded American since the last bunch tried in 1812? If the citizenry have no access to self defense, then only the Government and the Criminals will and the honest law abiding citizen will be nothing more than a slave to the Government and a victim to the Criminal.
The issue is not to ban the guns, but to ban the criminal. You really need to tread carefully when you begin to ban thins and trample on the Constitution. Liberty and Freedom are fragile commodities.
how many abortions performed by planned parenthood? 300,000+
In 2011 over 30,000 people died because of car accidents. Of that number 12,272 were do to DUI. How about we bring back proabition. In 2011 over 37,000 people died from miss use of drugs, and states are legalizing the use of marijuana. Where is your stance on those issues?
drugs are illegal but people die from them all the time. driving drunk is illegal but people die from it all the time. speeding is illegal but people die in high speed accidents all the time. all making guns illegal will do is cause law abiding people to get rid of their guns and criminals have another charge to get smacked on the wrist for. we have been fighting a drug war for years and have more drugs now than ever. why start a gun war so will will have more gun crimes than ever.
What a horribly skewed number (If it's even real). Go to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report and look up the number of ALL murders for the year 2000. It's ~15k for the entire country for the entire year for all methods. Guns were involved in less than half of those. Suicide is suicide. If someone wants to kill themselves they will, you can't blame the method for their death. And how many people die in car accidents, work place accidents, recreactional accidents, etc.? Many, many times more than guns. Shall we start banning all of those activities too? I'm guessing the author won't approve this comment. Bloggers are worse than the media, no accountability what so ever.
Can we possibly convince our fearless leader to set the example by disarming his bodyguards?
First: Why did you go back to 2000 instead of getting available 2010 or 2011 stats from the FBI (I realize the article was written in 2011). Now to bring you up to date: 2011 - 12,644 homicides. 8584 were by gun. 650 were by police or in self defense. So now you are left with 7900 gun homicides. The FBI estimates that 75% are gang related. So that leaves 2000. in a population of 360 million. 0.55 per 100,000 law abiding citizens.
30,000 gun deaths of which 60% were suicides. That 30,000 figure includes self defence by civilians and police. Homocide deaths are 11,000 a year and of that number the majority of the victims are have police felony record. Look up the facts.
While driving a car Iam in-control and I have an equal weapon and know how to avoid another on-coming weapon (car). I can steer our of the way. While attending a 1st grade class in the Newtown school I am interested in the teacher and do not notice a crazy man shooting and AR 15. Or maybe I am watching a movie in Colorado theater and do not see another person pointing another AR 15 at me. In just these two case there were 38 humans killed, plus dozens of guiltless beings wounded. It is not to rid the guns, just the AR 15's and other assult weapons that are capable of firing more than 10 rounds with out reloading.
32,310 U.S. Automobile Related Deaths - 2011
1.2+ MILLION U.S. Abortions - 2011
30,247 Gun RELATED deaths U.S - 2010
So, what needs to be regulated, restricted, or banned?
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