As usual, stats being bent to suit an argument. AW, your stat is about homicides, and that is a favourite tactic trotted out by the NRA. The problem with guns goes way past homicides in the US. Accidental deaths number in the tens of thousands per year, and gun-assisted suicide rates are enormous compared to countries where gun access is harder to come by. Be careful about throwing around 'lazy journalism', because these are stats that are easy to come by, and are well-understood. Both Cam and Dave could have spent 1,000 words establishing those benchmarks, but it's not necessary if an assumption is made about the wider picture.
Furthermore, building in added assumptions about things like an AK-47 are not useful to your argument. Those are hypotheticals. Yes, the FBI and local law enforcement both assumed some responsibility. If anything, that proves the point that multiple reforms and measures are needed in order to reign this thing in. Law enforcement is controlled by people, and people make mistakes. Get the system sorted out so that there are multiple levels of safety nets, and the strain is taken off of the human element. This is how automotive and aeronautical safety is handled, and advancements in technology, regulations, and design ethos have contributed to incredible decreases in accident and injury/death rates on the roads and in the air over the past 100 years. Take the same attitude towards gun control, and thousands of american lives would be saved every year.
A nation that is so worried about transgressions from within is somehow unable to realize that some of the very things the second amendment are designed to protect against are what are causing many of these problems: greed and the prioritization of making money over human lives. The enemy is making the calls from inside the house, but your caller ID is fucking broken, America.
March 7, 2018, 8:27 a.m. - Pete Roggeman
As usual, stats being bent to suit an argument. AW, your stat is about homicides, and that is a favourite tactic trotted out by the NRA. The problem with guns goes way past homicides in the US. Accidental deaths number in the tens of thousands per year, and gun-assisted suicide rates are enormous compared to countries where gun access is harder to come by. Be careful about throwing around 'lazy journalism', because these are stats that are easy to come by, and are well-understood. Both Cam and Dave could have spent 1,000 words establishing those benchmarks, but it's not necessary if an assumption is made about the wider picture. Furthermore, building in added assumptions about things like an AK-47 are not useful to your argument. Those are hypotheticals. Yes, the FBI and local law enforcement both assumed some responsibility. If anything, that proves the point that multiple reforms and measures are needed in order to reign this thing in. Law enforcement is controlled by people, and people make mistakes. Get the system sorted out so that there are multiple levels of safety nets, and the strain is taken off of the human element. This is how automotive and aeronautical safety is handled, and advancements in technology, regulations, and design ethos have contributed to incredible decreases in accident and injury/death rates on the roads and in the air over the past 100 years. Take the same attitude towards gun control, and thousands of american lives would be saved every year. A nation that is so worried about transgressions from within is somehow unable to realize that some of the very things the second amendment are designed to protect against are what are causing many of these problems: greed and the prioritization of making money over human lives. The enemy is making the calls from inside the house, but your caller ID is fucking broken, America.