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Thread: Report; More than 1,200 children in US killed by guns in the last year

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    Default Report; More than 1,200 children in US killed by guns in the last year

    More than 1,200 children in US killed by guns in the last year

    'Since Parkland' remembers the children killed in gun violence since the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas School shooting.


    The project was started the summer after a gunman opened fire in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018, killing 17 people


    Nearly 40,000 gun-violence victims
    The most recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that gun violence is on the rise.

    The CDC recorded 39,773 gun deaths in 2017 across the country, an increase of more than 1,000 from the previous year. The number is the largest in the CDC's 50-year-long database.

    Nearly 24,000 of the gun deaths in 2017 were suicides, while about 14,500 were homicides. Data from 2018 is not available.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...205836489.html
    I wonder how many victims were NRA buffs ?
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    And, if the crime weapon was not a gun? Some people are selectively choosing
    to ignore the root of the problem...it's the criminal, his or her self.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
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    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
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    Kids killed by swimming pool


    76 percent of drowning deaths in the United States each year involved children younger than 5 years old.
    67 percent of swimming pool drowning deaths involved children younger than 3 years old.

    A whopping 75 percent of drowning deaths of children younger than 15 occurred at a swimming pool located at a private residence (home pool, neighbor's pool).

    https://www.edgarsnyder.com/statisti...tatistics.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    And, if the crime weapon was not a gun? Some people are selectively choosing
    to ignore the root of the problem...it's the criminal, his or her self.
    Ruh roh! More diversionary and make believe “what if” bullshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    Kids killed by swimming pool


    76 percent of drowning deaths in the United States each year involved children younger than 5 years old.
    67 percent of swimming pool drowning deaths involved children younger than 3 years old.
    In Pennsylvania alone, four children died from drowning in a swimming pool in 2014.
    A whopping 75 percent of drowning deaths of children younger than 15 occurred at a swimming pool located at a private residence (home pool, neighbor's pool).

    https://www.edgarsnyder.com/statisti...tatistics.html
    On average, 35,000-40,000 people die each year from guns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    On average, 35,000-40,000 people die each year from guns.
    About the same as die in traffic accidents. But you're not the least bit concerned about those deaths. OTOH you're totally paranoid about guns. We could reduce gun deaths by putting gun safety education into all public schools. Follow that up with elementary gun handling education. Take the mystery out of guns, replacing it with actual knowledge. But that's something the control freaks are adamantly against. Better to have dead kids than an informed populace. It wouldn't be as easy to sell your gun paranoia if the people weren't kept ignorant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rjhenn View Post
    About the same as die in traffic accidents. But you're not the least bit concerned about those deaths. OTOH you're totally paranoid about guns. We could reduce gun deaths by putting gun safety education into all public schools. Follow that up with elementary gun handling education. Take the mystery out of guns, replacing it with actual knowledge. But that's something the control freaks are adamantly against. Better to have dead kids than an informed populace. It wouldn't be as easy to sell your gun paranoia if the people weren't kept ignorant.

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    You misunderstand and misread everything. Very common and predictable for barrel-stroking dumbfucks.

    I have ZERO paranoia about guns in society. Only personal experience that you ignorants lack.

    You idiots continually try to point to vehicles as a comparative analogy. Pure and laughable absurdity.

    I keep trying to put it simply for you idiots, but it just doesn’t sink in.

    MODERN SOCIETIES NEED VEHICLES.

    MODERN SOCIETIES DO WELL WITHOUT GUNS

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    You misunderstand and misread everything. Very common and predictable for barrel-stroking dumbfucks.

    I have ZERO paranoia about guns in society. Only personal experience that you ignorants lack.

    You idiots continually try to point to vehicles as a comparative analogy. Pure and laughable absurdity.

    I keep trying to put it simply for you idiots, but it just doesn’t sink in.

    MODERN SOCIETIES NEED VEHICLES.

    MODERN SOCIETIES DO WELL WITHOUT GUNS

    I can’t fix this brain dead, dark spot, hollow area of your brain
    Despite your denial, you continue to display your paranoia about guns. And completely banning them is the only solution that you can accept. The only modern societies that do well "without" guns are societies that never had any problems with guns. And there aren't any modern societies without guns. What even a perfunctory look around the world makes obvious is that gun control laws don't work. There are plenty of countries with very strict gun laws that have far worse problems with guns than we do. But your paranoia won't let you accept reality. You're the one who misunderstands and misreads everything, due to your rampant paranoia and PTSD due to your personal experience. The fact that you are obsessed with gun deaths and don't think twice about deaths from vehicular accidents is yet another indication of your paranoia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rjhenn View Post
    Despite your denial, you continue to display your paranoia about guns. And completely banning them is the only solution that you can accept. The only modern societies that do well "without" guns are societies that never had any problems with guns. And there aren't any modern societies without guns. What even a perfunctory look around the world makes obvious is that gun control laws don't work. There are plenty of countries with very strict gun laws that have far worse problems with guns than we do. But your paranoia won't let you accept reality. You're the one who misunderstands and misreads everything, due to your rampant paranoia and PTSD due to your personal experience. The fact that you are obsessed with gun deaths and don't think twice about deaths from vehicular accidents is yet another indication of your paranoia.

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    Your blind stupidity is astounding.

    Let’s get some groundwork here, little one. Tell us all your up close and personal experience with gun violence. One that tells us all why you have such insight. You have ZERO, don’t you?

    You’re a fucking delusional liar when you state there are countries with more strict gun controls than us with worse problems. You’ll do nothing but cite 3rd world countries, liar. Brazil, Honduras. I’ve seen it before, liar.

    I have not one PTSD experience of your bullshit, asshole. Unlike you, asswipe, I’ve done more to protect punks like you from gun violence than you’ll ever be able to claim. Before my PROFESSIONAL experience with guns and gun deaths, I had no opinion one way or another. Unlike you and your inexperienced ignorance, I got a good look at reality.

    Stick with your ignorant guns and vehicles bullshit, dumbfuck. How do your groceries get to your supermarket, asswipe? With a gun or a vehicle?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rjhenn View Post
    About the same as die in traffic accidents.

    Would you say that it's easier to obtain a gun- which is designed to kill- than it is to obtain a driving licence for a car- which is designed to transport.
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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    Your blind stupidity is astounding.

    Let’s get some groundwork here, little one. Tell us all your up close and personal experience with gun violence. One that tells us all why you have such insight. You have ZERO, don’t you?

    You’re a fucking delusional liar when you state there are countries with more strict gun controls than us with worse problems. You’ll do nothing but cite 3rd world countries, liar. Brazil, Honduras. I’ve seen it before, liar.

    I have not one PTSD experience of your bullshit, asshole. Unlike you, asswipe, I’ve done more to protect punks like you from gun violence than you’ll ever be able to claim. Before my PROFESSIONAL experience with guns and gun deaths, I had no opinion one way or another. Unlike you and your inexperienced ignorance, I got a good look at reality.

    Stick with your ignorant guns and vehicles bullshit, dumbfuck. How do your groceries get to your supermarket, asswipe? With a gun or a vehicle?
    You continue to demonstrate your own stupidity and paranoia about guns. All your diversion about 3rd world countries demonstrates is that factors other than gun control laws are far more important. If gun control laws actually worked, those other factors would be inconsequential. As for your dismissal of the guns and vehicles comparison, it's only faulty if one accepts your paranoid precept that the only solution to either problem is a complete ban of the offending item.
    And your "PROFESSIONAL experience with guns and gun deaths" has clearly driven you over the edge. You have no arguments other than ad hominems. There is not one single gun control law that has ever been demonstrated to have made things better. That's the reality. And all of your wishful thinking won't change it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    Would you say that it's easier to obtain a gun- which is designed to kill- than it is to obtain a driving licence for a car- which is designed to transport.
    You don't need to pass a background check to get a driver's license. OTOH, just as with drugs, you can always get a gun on the black market. And, even though a car is designed to transport and all legal operators must have a license; they still kill about as many each year as are killed with guns. And over half of the latter are suicides.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rjhenn View Post
    You continue to demonstrate your own stupidity and paranoia about guns. All your diversion about 3rd world countries demonstrates is that factors other than gun control laws are far more important. If gun control laws actually worked, those other factors would be inconsequential. As for your dismissal of the guns and vehicles comparison, it's only faulty if one accepts your paranoid precept that the only solution to either problem is a complete ban of the offending item.
    And your "PROFESSIONAL experience with guns and gun deaths" has clearly driven you over the edge. You have no arguments other than ad hominems. There is not one single gun control law that has ever been demonstrated to have made things better. That's the reality. And all of your wishful thinking won't change it.

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    YOU and your fellow barrel-strokers cite the 3rd world countries, pal. Not me.

    Go back to school, idiot, and take a Remedial Reading class. Your comprehension skills suck. Either that, or you choose to lie about my posts.

    Gun control laws don’t work? Give us a comparison of gun death rates in other western cultures, dumbshit.

    I’ll wait for your lies and diversion.

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    Hello Stretch,

    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    Some people are selectively choosing
    to ignore the root of the problem...
    To that part, I emphatically agree!
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    Quote Originally Posted by rjhenn View Post
    You don't need to pass a background check to get a driver's license. OTOH, just as with drugs, you can always get a gun on the black market. And, even though a car is designed to transport and all legal operators must have a license; they still kill about as many each year as are killed with guns. And over half of the latter are suicides.

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