Just some new facts
“The Economic Cost of Gun Violence | Everytown Research & Policy | Everytown Research & Policy” The Economic Cost of Gun Violence | Everytown Research & Policy
Very true. These individuals make us pay in more ways than one.
Is this rhetorical? Clearly we have to save innocent lives if we have the ability to do so. We won’t be able to stop all of them, but by that logic should we also stop all cancer treatments because some people will still die?
That is often the underlying call of the gun-nuts when they point out “Laws wouldn’t have stopped this one!”
Gun regulation is how we do that. We won’t do that with more guns though.
No. We should have sensible gun regulation because that’s what actually reduces gun deaths.
I guess we have to wait a few years to see the statistics showing an increase in accidental shootings, and officers shot while on duty.
Welcome.
There is already a statistical increase in gun related injuries or deaths from a variety of causalities.
What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.
More Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2020 than in any other year on record, according to recently published statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That included a record number of gun murders, as well as a near-record number of gun suicides. Despite the increase in such fatalities, the rate of gun deaths – a statistic that accounts for the nation’s growing population – remains below the levels of earlier years.
Here’s a closer look at gun deaths in the United States, based on a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the CDC, the FBI and other sources. You can also read key public opinion findings about U.S. gun violence and gun policy in our recent roundup.
While the statistics are still below the worst, they are on the increase and with the current political climate there is a good chance this will keep increasing.
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I don’t ever want to play the part
Of a statistic on a government chart.
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Unfortunately, when dealing with large numbers statistics are the only useful references to sort and identify large numbers of rare events (LNRE)
In statistics, large number of rare events (LNRE) modeling summarizes methods that allow improvements in frequency distribution estimation over the maximum likelihood estimation when “rare events are common”.
Large number of rare events - Wikipedia
btw. LNRE is instrumental in the study of mineral/chemical abiogenesis.
See Robert Hazen ; “Chance , Necessity, and the Origins of Life”.
A defeated Maga candidate, by a wide margin, accuses the Dem of having used fraud, and pays people to shoot on local Dem leaders.
10 deads, 10 hurts, among the Asian community, by Assault riffle.
The insanity goes on.
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The latest insanity professed by the Supreme Court.
Under the Supreme Court’s new standard for determining whether gun laws are within constitutional bounds, the government is required to show that the measure is consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of gun regulation.
In wake of Supreme Court Second Amendment decision, uncertainty plagues gun laws new and old - CBS News
I didn’t know that an AR15 or M16 assault rifle is a historical firearm.
I believe the historical firearms the constitution speaks of are single shot black powder pistols and rifles.
Hey, I agree that everyone should have the right to own a black powder rifle.
They are beautiful.
The Pedersoli Kentucky Muzzleloading Rifle evolved from German hunting guns and was a major rival of the Brown Bess, it quickly became one of the most popular American rifles. This rifle was typically used in the American colonies where it became immensely popular due to its lightness and accuracy. The barrel is blue finished, all fittings are of polished brass and the walnut stock is oil finished.
I hate the looks of AR 15 Assault rifles. They are ugly weapons of mass destruction.
With AR-15s, Mass Shooters Attack With the Rifle Firepower Typically Used by Infantry Troops
A federal ban on the manufacture of certain rifles deemed to be “assault weapons” took effect in 1994, and the list of covered rifles included the AR-15.
Since the ban expired in 2004, the number of rifles manufactured in the United States increased threefold to four million in 2013. That was one year after a gunman killed his mother and then 26 others at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
The main functional difference between the military’s M16 and M4 rifles and a civilian AR-15 is the “burst” mode on many military models, which allow three rounds to be fired with one trigger pull. Some military versions of the rifles have a full automatic feature, which fires until the trigger is released or a magazine is empty of ammunition.
But in actual American combat these technical differences are less significant than they seem. For decades the American military has trained its conventional troops to fire their M4s and M16s in the semiautomatic mode — one bullet per trigger pull — instead of on “burst” or automatic in almost all shooting situations. The weapons are more accurate this way, and thus more lethal.
Does anyone see a historical right to owning an AR15, based on the historical right to own a gun for which that law was written?
Clearance is showing his stupidity. He forgets that men (yes, Black) like him could not have guns. He wants wife beating? He doesn’t deserve a gun. Not because he’s Black, but because he supports such stupidity. BTW, using his stupid logic, it’s even unconstitutional for him to be on the Supreme Court. Just how far does he want to take his logic? He’s only screwing himself, not to mention some of the men and women he’s also screwing.