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Gun crime outstrips all other forms of violent crime by a huge proportion? I'm going to give you a chance to redact that statement before you get laughed off the internet.
There is no question that there is an unhealthy gun culture in the US.
So 16 mass shootings (assuming they are using the FBI definitions, that's 4 or more victims in one incident) in a little under 50 years? More people died by baseball bat in one year than 16 "mass shooting" incidents combined. All while other crime has been plummeting for the last 20 years while the same crime has been rising in these other countries? Seems like your priorities are severely skewed by all this anti-gun propaganda.
Again, focusing solely on "mass killings" and "gun deaths" is about as narrow minded and myopic as you can get on the subject. When you go shopping do you ignore unit price and normal pricing for total price and BIG SALE EVENT signs?
Gun crime outstrips all other forms of violent crime by a huge proportion? I'm going to give you a chance to redact that statement before you get laughed off the internet.
Scott, what do you mean by this? If by gun culture you mean the widespread American belief that the citizens have the right to bear arms and protect themseles, I would have to disagree.
I assume you are talking about people who are "MY GUNS ARE BIGGER THAN YOURS!" and collect anything they can get their hands on. If that's the case, that's a small fraction of the population. Even then I don't think those people are the ones who would commit crimes as much as they are just avid collectors.
I tend to think that our media glamorizes violence, particularly in terms of guns, more than any other country in the world. Westerns, gangster movies (keep the change you filthy animal), it's been that way forever. Just don't show a nipple. I enjoy all of these things. But as a society, we are pretty unapologetic about our depictions of violence, compared to how up-tight we are about other things. It's totally unfair to point a finger at any one person, like Marilyn Manson was vilified, but twhen violence is glorified as it is here, it shouldn't come as a surprise that more people commit mass acts of violence.
Drifting off topic here. This is metal after all. But I'm really referring to the street culture, gangs, criminals. You'll notice that the primary people complaining about gun control are people who are generally law-abiding. I don't think any criminals on the street care, because they know as well as anyone that they'll still be able to get their guns the same way they can still get their drugs. Bottom line, it isn't the guns IMO.
I'd agree that our culture glamorizes violence. But I'd say violence in general, not just gun violence. Slasher movies are extremely popular. More than any country in the world? I'm not sure about that, maybe.
Even if, I don't beleive the people who commit these acts of violence are motivated by the media portrayl of violence... at all. They are genrally insane, have a deep motive, or both. Depictions of violence in media and arts goes back to the dawn of theatre, so glamorizing violence isn't new or even unique to America. Really, pointing the finger at violence in media, glorified or not, (that means movies, shows, video games, etc..) isn't any different than pointing the finger at Marylin Manson after the Columbine shooting. It's just another scapegoat. If you are going to point towards something, I'd say modern society's regard (or lack therof) towards life, more broken familes, irresponsible parents/bad upbringing, and lack of resources for those that are mentally unstable is a MUCH bigger factor in the rate of violence than anything.
Not intending to point a finger at all. Media is generally a reflection of society, not the other way around. Tool's Vicarious pretty much nails it on the head. And it isn't just gun violence. The biggest act of school violence was a car bomb in Bath, MI if I recall. There's the mental health thing to a large degree, too. There are just so many more reasons for where the numbers shake out than just how easily it is to legally acquire a gun.
Nah, you'll thank the heavens when you finally come up from hiding in your basement and find Communist China has showed up and brought "Peace and Stability" to your neighbourhood. Then you'll be all like - "I was against guns all along, I promise! I didn't know. I'm innocent!!"
Gun nuts are so very tough till reality comes knocking.
Those are only mass shootings where more than 7 people died, and there plenty of mass killings happening in the USA all the time when less than 7 people are killed - I'm sure I could pull up dozens of articles right now about how the USA far outstrips the entire rest of world in this regard. It's also pretty obvious to see if you follow international news (which you obviously you don't), I follow it every day and I'm forever reading about the latest American mass shooting (wherein often less than 7 people die - but why would gun fetishists care about 7 people they don't know, right?) I have also also noticed (and statistics prove) that mass shootings in other countries, democratic or not, are far less frequent than in the USA - that's what happens when a society has too many guns. And you're comparing baseball killings to mass shootings - does your idiocy know no bounds? LOL! As I have already linked above, murders committed by guns in the USA far outstrip any other method of killing people BY A MILE. Wherever you turn you're just boxed in by your wall of NRA proganda, son.
Did you miraculously manage to avoid the chart I just posted in that topic? The first graph is crimes committed by guns compared to other weapons, and the second graph is murders committed by guns compared to other means. Guns reign supreme in both categories. This seems to be a recurring theme here for anyone with at least a half-logical brain, but muppets pounded down by political propaganda aren't know for their rational reasoning...
I disagree. The so called "left" have no patience or tolerance to any civilian deaths. You'll see that in Europe if gun violence goes up. All form of gun ownership for civilians vill be made illegal. If it takes people having to get a permit to own a knife then that's what will be done. 0 tolerance level.
The nutty right in USA don't care about anything but themselves. The gun owner thing in USA, is an ego thing.
Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Brunei are horrible totalitarian staten and have nothing to do with the right to walk the streets of a city in a free society and not get a gun shoved in the face.
I think you've been force-fed too much NRA propaganda if you think you'd be able to resist the government with your precious little guns.So it's absurdly alarmist to be afraid of the gubment killing us all, instead we need to fear a Red Dawn scenario? I think you have been watching too many movies.
Mass murders make up a rather small proportion of gun homicides in general.
Did you miss the numerous memos earlier about gun crime making up more than 65% of all murders in the USA every year? I know, I understand, mindless puppets of propaganda don't comprehend anything that doesn't agree with their carefully "constructed" view of reality.