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I hope I can ask this without leading to a bunch of religious fervor about pro or anti-2A. For the record I support having some rights to guns, but as long as anyone claims 2A is a reason we can't have sensible legislation about guns, then I'm against 2A entirely. I say that in effort to establish I'm not asking in bad faith.
Violent crime is at an all time low, according to many articles. So how is gun violence at an all time high? Is there an excess of non-criminal gun violence? Like perhaps suicide is at a high? Police shootings making up the difference? Is there gun violence showing up in hospitals that isn't being reported to law enforcement? Is there a different standard of what constitutes gun violence between the healthcare and law enforcement communities?
I read the article and a couple of linked ones, but I couldn't find any answer. At first glance it doesn't seem like both things can be true, but I'm going to assume instead I'm just missing part of the picture, so what is it?
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.
You have a higher chance of getting killed by bees or lightning than dying from a "mass shooting". Most gun violence is gang related. It's like people think the usa is dangerous everywhere. When in reality it's super safe in 99.9999% of the country. It's not the guns, its our society that's troubled and it seems neither side wants to actively work on the why it happens just the what tool was used.
Excluding all the car-on-pedestrian deaths would be like excluding all the gunman-on-unarmed deaths, lol.
Gun violence archive is not a legit source. It's completely bullshit from an anti-2a group. It's been called out multiple times by even left leaning sources like NPR and motherjones its so bad.
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.
Yea nothing here proves that the GVA isn't bullshit..
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/no-there-were-not-355-mass-shootings-this-year/
That's two left leaning anti-2a publishers who even call out the GVA. It's not a reputable source.
Yes the pandemic years where an outlier and has drastically dropped back to pre-pandemic levels and now furthering the trend of continued decrease in overall violence/crime. This stilll....once again, has nothing to do with the GVA being a shit source...
Yea during the pandemic... it's not anymore as I said, and further still not on topic.
Same as above....
No they did not, the term mass shooting in the eyes of the public is like uvalde or LA...not gang violence or drug violence. People see mass shootings as random acts that target indiscriminately...this also once again bullshit.
O you're Canadian....why am I arguing this with you... you're not in the USA.
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!
No, I don't, through this entire thread I've got plenty of sources to back up what I'm saying. It's not my fault you don't wish to actually read them.
And https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/import/iefw-iefa-eng.html#_a3
That article acts like it's illegal to import firearms from the USA... it's not.
it's not law abiding citizens importing guns that's the problem, it's all the criminals shipping them across the border.
Same with mexico.
But you're a gun nut, you don't fucking care, be honest.
Someone could shoot your mom in the face and you'd still say it wasn't guns fault.
You're right, I don't fucking care. I'm not going to push for legislation that's built upon emotional lies. Which is what you anti-gun people feed each other daily.
The overall message needs to be said without the personal attacks.
OK with a gun:
https://youtube.com/shorts/vJaKIOTNeoc
Should never have a gun:
https://youtu.be/vfONckOPyaI
they're both idiots.
If you're unable to keep your emotions in check, then we're done here.
lol what a baby.
you're fine with kids getting murdered but not some harsh criticism.
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.
DARVO
Usually the ones trying to tell people they're racist are the most racist of them all. They think that because I point out the flaws in society that I must be white male, that's a gun owner who votes for trump... little do they know I am a minority who's heavily for societal safety nets, but also am armed to the teeth.
An armed minority is harder to oppress.
Not even worth my time for someone who is so ignorant to the subject. Have a good day.
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.