(November 9, 2018 at 9:39 am)Khemikal Wrote: -we've been averaging very nearly a mass shooting a day for years now. Most of the victims of mass shootings with high media profile are white. This is not true of mass shootings as a whole. None of the people tracked in that database were suicides. They specifically excluded them.
Quote:22,000 Annual Suicides not included on Daily Summary Ledger
We focus on mass shootings, but the suicides are the bulk, second are domestic violence, third are accidental, then crime outside the home. The truth remains arm more isn't a solution. I am sick of the paranoid fucking crybabies treating prevention as being the same as a presumption of guilt.
And like most gun injuries and deaths, the act starts with a LEGALLY PURCHASED firearm. That says to me we suck as a nation at vetting to prevent even suicides with a firearm.
And I am glad none of these worshipers raised me knowing I suffer from anxiety and depression, I am lucky my mom learned from my drunk dad who shot his 38 with me in the room as a kid. If it were not for her quick action back then in pulling me out of the house, not sure I'd be here today.
Arm more is not a solution. And I never get a good answer if that is their argument, how many firearms would be enough, because we already have 300 million out there already.
