Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Posted by: LeSieg
Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Posted by: Barnacle_Blast
People you have to compare the United States' homicides by firearms with countries similar to it.
Go to the UNODC website. There is data there in which you can look over the homicide by firearm rates and amounts..etc in many countries. But keep in mind you have to compare the U.S. with countries that are similar to it for example: United Kingdom, France, Germany...etc.
When you look at the data and compare you will see that the United States has significantly more homicides by firearms than countries like it such as Britain, France, Germany...etc.
Link: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/homicide.html
You are missing the point. Its not homicides. Its shootings like this. When a loner goes psycho and shoots up a classroom, campus, movie theater, political event etc...
This is way too common of an occurrence for the world's largest, most civil society.
Again, you need it explained.
Our society is creating these shooters by creating an environment they are raised in. That's why shootings like this are so common now. They didn't really happen like this before 1990. Some shootings did happen, but after Columbine, this has been a regular occurrence.Before the 1990s, we killed people for the color of their skin. We imprisoned and castrated people for their orientation. We committed genocide on an entire group of people. We killed each in the name of everything.
Don't you dare say that violence is new, don't you dare say we aren't getting more and more progressive at least in this country.
And we progressed past that.
And I am talking about now. This point in time. When compared to other industrialized nations, the US has more mass shootings than anyone else.
It happens too often here.
Why? What creates so many of these events?Of course we have more shootings, we have more guns. Our crime rates have been on the decline for the past sixty years, and gun violence is actually down from the 1990s. Compared to the 1990s, our violence is only a portion of what it was. If your point is to say that we're getting worse because of our attitudes, you're wrong.
You are statistically safer in this country at this point in time than you are at almost any other in modern history.