The U.S. surgeon general is declaring gun violence a public health crisis, driven by a growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. Dr.
Weapons: Of the 143 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally. They included dozens of assault weapons and semi-automatic handguns with high-capacity magazines. (See charts below.) Just as a perpetrator used a .40-caliber Glock to slaughter students in Red Lake, Minnesota, in 2005, so too did the one in Aurora, along with an AR-15 assault rifle, when blasting away at his victims in a darkened movie theater. In Newtown, Connecticut, the attacker wielded a .223 Bushmaster semi-automatic assault rifle as he massacred 20 school children and six adults.
About eight-in-ten U.S. murders in 2021 – 20,958 out of 26,031, or 81% – involved a firearm.
The overall increase in U.S. gun deaths since the beginning of the pandemic includes an especially stark rise in such fatalities among children and teens under the age of 18. Gun deaths among children and teens rose 50% in just two years, from 1,732 in 2019 to 2,590 in 2021.
The rate of children dying to firearms in the US is 6.01 per 100,000
It’s almost as if there is a narrative trying to be pushed regardless of whether it aligns with the facts…
You got us. We’re pushing the nefarious narrative of *checks notes* helping you idiots not get shot.
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Excluding all the car-on-pedestrian deaths would be like excluding all the gunman-on-unarmed deaths, lol.
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Ok, here’s Motherjones guide to mass shootings
Or here’s Pew Research:
The rate of children dying to firearms in the US is 6.01 per 100,000
The rate of children dying to firearms in Canada is 0.21 per 100,000
In 2023, 754 people died in mass shootings in the USA.
In Canada, there have been 171 deaths to mass shootings for all of the 21st century so far.
We would have had to lose 83 people per year to shootings to keep up with you for 2023. We lost 11.
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They’re right though. All you have is “anti 2a” and “mass shooting doesn’t mean what you think it means”
so you fold by arguing bullshit. Hey bright lights - guess what - easy gun availability in the US has an impact on canada!
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I’m glad you cleared your self-imposed goal posts.
EDIT: oh no! You didn’t! You were lying and hoping no one would notice! Nice job.
Sorry, couldn’t hear you over the sound of your dog whistle.
It’s the guns.
Lol, hears gang and thinks minority.
You need to reassess how you think about people.
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DARVO
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Didn’t ask for the help, thanks anyways.
I didn’t realize you spoke for all the idiots.
Makes sense.
They call me Emperor Idiot down at the gun range where I run a class for children. Thank you very much.