Is the Religious Right in America gunning for you?

[SkepticThinker]

Like North Korea or Communist China?

No, like the UK and Australia. And Canada, and most of Europe.

 

[Twilight Hue]

No, like the UK and Australia. And Canada, and most of Europe.

Really?

Five people dead after mass shooting in England


7 dead including 4 children in Australia's worst mass shooting in 22 years



16 People Killed in Mass Shooting in Canada, Gunman Was Possibly Dressed as Police Officer

 

[SkepticThinker]

Really?

Five people dead after mass shooting in England


7 dead including 4 children in Australia's worst mass shooting in 22 years



16 People Killed in Mass Shooting in Canada, Gunman Was Possibly Dressed as Police Officer

Yes, really. Now compare those rare mass shootings with the number of mass shootings in the US.

Oh wait, someone on the thread already did that.

But you wanted us to think everybody was talking about communist China? Sure.

 

[metis]

According to a news source last night, we have had 57 times the number of mass shootings done in all of the industrialized countries over the last 20 years.

 

[SkepticThinker]

According to a news source last night, we have had 57 times the number of mass shootings done in all of the industrialized countries over the last 20 years.

That is insane and so sad.

 

[Sheldon]

Ok the idiocy of your comparison aside, countries like the UK, and Australia that introduced strict gun laws after mass shootings, have hardly any gun crime. The US by comparison has some of the highest gun crime rates in the world.

Like North Korea or Communist China?

Nope, but then you knew that before you posted this false equivalence fallacy. Anything of value to offer?

 

[Sheldon]

Ok the idiocy of your comparison aside, countries like the UK, and Australia that introduced strict gun laws after mass shootings, have hardly any gun crime. The US by comparison has some of the highest gun crime rates in the world.

Like North Korea or Communist China?

No, like the UK and Australia. And Canada, and most of Europe.

Really?

Five people dead after mass shooting in England

One should learn to read at least to a basic level, (see emboldened red above) before responding with such an idiotic straw man. However since you have disingenuously dug up an 11 year old news report, here are the latest mass shootings of children in the US one from just 3 days ago.

"‘When will this end?’: rage over US gun violence after second mass shooting in 10 days"
"The second US mass shooting in 10 days, which left 18 young children and three adults dead at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, led to an outpouring of disbelief and potent rage at America’s persistent failure to tackle its epidemic of gun violence."

Firearms deaths are a fixture in American life.

There were 1.5 million of them between 1968 and 2017 - that's higher than the number of soldiers killed in every US conflict since the American War for Independence in 1775.

In 2020 alone, more than 45,000 Americans died at the end of a barrel of a gun, whether by homicide or suicide, more than any other year on record. The figure represents a 25% increase from five years prior, and a 43% increase from 2010.

How many guns are there in the US?
While calculating the number of guns in private hands around the world is difficult, figures from the Small Arms Survey - a Swiss-based leading research project - estimate that there were 390 million guns in circulation in 2018.

CITATION

 

[Sheldon]

If pre-born infants

No such thing as a pre-born infant, it is an obvious oxymoron. A bit like like an unbuilt building, should we insist on fire regulations for these?