Reply to Re: My opinion on the school shootings in the US
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Speaking as an American, in my experience most people here aren't "obsessed" with guns (which is saying something because I live in the Midwest). People treat it like any other sport or interest and it tends to be harmless for the vast majority of people.
What people on here (my apologies for the blanket statement, just an observation) tend to be ignorant of is that violent crime, including gun homicides, have plummeted in the last 20 years. However, the media propagates racial conflict, gun violence and "bullying" because it makes for higher viewership. Thus many people have been misled to believe all sorts of negative things about our country, citizens and foreigners alike.
So let's bring out the statistics.
As reported to a 2011 report by the Center for Diesese Control, there were an estimated 32,000 people killed by fatal gunshots. Of these 32,000 fatalities, there were 20,000 suicides. Alright, so that leave's 11,000 people who harmed someone other than themselves.
We have a basis, 11,000 people murdered someone else with a gun.
Now, as stated by the U.S Department of Justice, the rate of violent crime has declined since 1993 by 72% from 80 victims to 22.5 victims per 1,000 persons agreed 12 and older.
So violent crime is plummeting (thus far by almost 3/4 of what is was only 20 years ago), but what about mah gunz?
A 2013 report released by the U.S Bureau of Justice states that fatal gun homicides have decreased 39% and not fatal gunshot wounds have decreased 69%, again since 1993. In that year we had 18,253 homicides, this year we've had an estimated 11,101. That's a 7,000 drop in gun homicides over only 20 years. Although the rate won't be known until the next report is released, this means that the homicide rate is STILL dropping unless some massive change in violence has happened in the last few months that no one knows about.
Let's review
In the past 20 years violent crime and gun homicides in the Murica have dropped massively and will continue dropping unless there is sudden massive social unrest.
Just to put into perspective how small the number of gun fatalities are in relation to other preventable types of death, here are some statistics from the Harvard School of Public Health.
*Smoking kills an average of 467,000 thousand people a year(a rate 14.5x higher than guns)
*High Blood Pressure kills an average of 400,0000 people a year(12.5x)
*Obesity(lol) kills an average of 216,000 people a year(6.75)
Where as there were an estimated 11,000 homicides with guns.
*Suicides not included because have mental health practitioners have stated long ago that people who are serious about taking their own life won't stop if their preferred method isn't available. ex. Japan, China, Russia.
If you want to discuss the poor health of our country, our questionable foreign policies or our social issues, I would love to indulge you. I would also be happy to to bring light to the perceived "race war" a brewin in our country.
However, if you wish to be condescending (cough, skull) about your perceived flaws with our ability and right to defend ourselves from a tyrannical government, just like we did with the English, please be courteous and know the facts before you pass judgement on the same nation that bailed out your European homeland during the reign of your own tyrannical dictator.
Murica out.
Sources:
Center for Disease Control
U.S Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice
Harvard School of Public Health.
Feel free to look all of these stats up from unbiased government reports.
In fact, please do.
What people on here (my apologies for the blanket statement, just an observation) tend to be ignorant of is that violent crime, including gun homicides, have plummeted in the last 20 years. However, the media propagates racial conflict, gun violence and "bullying" because it makes for higher viewership. Thus many people have been misled to believe all sorts of negative things about our country, citizens and foreigners alike.
So let's bring out the statistics.
As reported to a 2011 report by the Center for Diesese Control, there were an estimated 32,000 people killed by fatal gunshots. Of these 32,000 fatalities, there were 20,000 suicides. Alright, so that leave's 11,000 people who harmed someone other than themselves.
We have a basis, 11,000 people murdered someone else with a gun.
Now, as stated by the U.S Department of Justice, the rate of violent crime has declined since 1993 by 72% from 80 victims to 22.5 victims per 1,000 persons agreed 12 and older.
So violent crime is plummeting (thus far by almost 3/4 of what is was only 20 years ago), but what about mah gunz?
A 2013 report released by the U.S Bureau of Justice states that fatal gun homicides have decreased 39% and not fatal gunshot wounds have decreased 69%, again since 1993. In that year we had 18,253 homicides, this year we've had an estimated 11,101. That's a 7,000 drop in gun homicides over only 20 years. Although the rate won't be known until the next report is released, this means that the homicide rate is STILL dropping unless some massive change in violence has happened in the last few months that no one knows about.
Let's review
In the past 20 years violent crime and gun homicides in the Murica have dropped massively and will continue dropping unless there is sudden massive social unrest.
Just to put into perspective how small the number of gun fatalities are in relation to other preventable types of death, here are some statistics from the Harvard School of Public Health.
*Smoking kills an average of 467,000 thousand people a year(a rate 14.5x higher than guns)
*High Blood Pressure kills an average of 400,0000 people a year(12.5x)
*Obesity(lol) kills an average of 216,000 people a year(6.75)
Where as there were an estimated 11,000 homicides with guns.
*Suicides not included because have mental health practitioners have stated long ago that people who are serious about taking their own life won't stop if their preferred method isn't available. ex. Japan, China, Russia.
If you want to discuss the poor health of our country, our questionable foreign policies or our social issues, I would love to indulge you. I would also be happy to to bring light to the perceived "race war" a brewin in our country.
However, if you wish to be condescending (cough, skull) about your perceived flaws with our ability and right to defend ourselves from a tyrannical government, just like we did with the English, please be courteous and know the facts before you pass judgement on the same nation that bailed out your European homeland during the reign of your own tyrannical dictator.
Murica out.
Sources:
Center for Disease Control
U.S Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice
Harvard School of Public Health.
Feel free to look all of these stats up from unbiased government reports.
In fact, please do.
