Another senseless shooting in America and everybody asks the same wrong, stupid questions..."How could this happen here?...What was wrong with this guy?...Is our children learning?...Was it Hollywood's fault?"
The US averages about 35,000 deaths by firearms annually. Just as a point if reference, Japan had 3 gun related deaths in 2006.
Statistically, it breaks along these lines:
Here are gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in the world's 36 richest countries in 2004:
United States 14.24; Brazil 12.95; Mexico 12.69; Estonia 12.26; Argentina 8.93; Northern Ireland 6.63; Finland 6.46; Switzerland 5.31; France 5.15; Canada 4.31; Norway 3.82; Austria 3.70; Portugal 3.20; Israel 2.91; Belgium 2.90; Australia 2.65; Slovenia 2.60; Italy 2.44; New Zealand 2.38; Denmark 2.09; Sweden 1.92; Kuwait 1.84; Greece 1.29; Germany 1.24; Hungary 1.11; Republic of Ireland 0.97; Spain 0.78; Netherlands 0.70; Scotland 0.54; England and Wales 0.41; Taiwan 0.37; Singapore 0.21; Mauritius 0.19; Hong Kong 0.14; South Korea 0.12; Japan 0.05.
Here's the answer to solve this epidemic.
People having been killing one another since the dawn of man. Guns just make it really, really easy to do.
This nation of ours is like a giant violent child with a deadly weapon in its hand We need to take the tool away. As a society we've continually proven we're incapable of dealing with the responsibilities of gun ownership so we need to melt them all down. Remove the toy from the from the hands of these infantile fools.
Feh.
Since I know that my proposal will never happen, in the meantime, here's a good site with some resources and potential answers.
Oh, and if you disagree with me on this one, Go. Fuck. Off.
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