We’re #1 in ownership.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_capita_by_countryWe’re #1 among rich nations.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html?_r=0
The majority of guns are sold without any kind of background check. In several states if you can cloud a mirror, you can carry a gun around. While I do support the right of a citizen in good standing to own a gun, our regulatory policy is insane.
over 8 thousand killed by guns already, almost 400 of them under 11. 228 killed in a mass shooting. But the NRA wants to keep USA number one when it comes to killings with guns. While the Republicans try to make America look like Rio.
The US has AT LEAST 310 million guns lawfully owned by some 350 million private citizens, and literally Billions of rounds of ammunition. This includes up to heavy machine guns, auto canons, artillery, rocket launchers, antitank weapons and mortars.
This fact makes the US unconquerable. Even back in the day when Glasnost broke out, the old Soviet generals admitted they never considered trying to invade the US as we would be impossible to occupy because of our privately held guns and high umber of veterans. Think Red Dawn times about a million.
I postulate that, per gun, the US has the lowest gun crime rate in the developed world. The only possible contender would be Switzerland with pretty much a REAL assault rifle (many with grenade launchers attached) in every home.
The US leads the developed world in crime rates, period. However, since 1980, violent crime has been cut in half while gun ownership has roughly doubled. Something you’ll not see on MSNBC. So when gun ownership goes up, crime goes down.
No, I do not belong to the NRA – I cant stand Wayne LaPierre.
Yes, I am a military veteran (USMC and then Army, retired). I have seen what happens in nations where private citizens do not have the right to keep and bear arms. Only government thugs and criminals possess firearms in that case.
As I have said before, when the crazy ones decide to stop using guns and use bombs, we’ll see real body counts. The Trench coat weenies in Columbine had a backpack full of pipe bombs loaded with small nails as shrapnel that they accidentally locked outside. If they had not locked them outside the casualty rate of Columbine would have been far, FAR higher.
Any fool can build a bomb. Anyone with any experience in explosives at all can take the common chemicals and other items in your house and make a bomb powerful enough to blow out the walls and drop the roof into the basement. With a 25 minute lesson you can make the high explosive TATP (the shoe bomber explosive) in your kitchen sink with things you can legally buy at Walmart and any hardware store.
Guns are a smokescreen. Violent crimes are half what they were in the 80s yet media coverage of them is up about a thousand percent. What is the media’s hidden agenda? Why does the media insist on trying to keep us in a permanent state of fear? You are over 3,000 times more likely to be killed in an auto accident than in a mass shooting. You are ten thousand times more likely to be killed by a medical error than by an “assault weapon”.
Your doctor, hospital and pharmacy are far deadlier than a nut with a gun.
Although the number of guns owned in America has gone up, the rate of gun ownership has gone down. It’s skewed by a small number of ammosexuals who go out and buy guns every time there’s a mass shooting, because the NRA tells them that THIS TIME the scary black president is bound to come and take their guns. The NRA is now funded by gun manufacturers, and does not have its members’ interest at heart.
With registration and licensing you CAN own fully automatic machine guns, AND as collectors, even old Army tanks! Registration and licensing does NOT interfere with the RIGHT of gun ownership as Scalia noted in “DC vs Heller” and he pointed out it is , under the Constitution, the DUTY of government to regulate arms when you leave your domicile and “home defense” is not the issue.
BTW; those who are good with an air rifle at 10 meters, will also be very good with a .308 at 1,000 meters, and with a Barrett .50 and a little training, 2,000 meters, and more, isn’t that big a trick.
But, the overwhelming gun death rates in the US are linked to HAND GUNS. It’s just that with large magazines and longer barrels, you can kill more, from further away, with rifles like the AR-15 or reload and use a Remington 700 BDL with a bull barrel and bipod.
Also, most gun deaths are NOT from trained and experienced firearms owners and shooters, they’re done by nuts with guns (not insane, just “nuts” with an axe to grind).
Big thanks to all those commenters who made a special trip here to point out that it was an air rifle. I would not have known that without looking at the cartoon!
sappha58 over 7 years ago
Nope. We’re #11:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
superposition over 7 years ago
We’re #1 in ownership.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_capita_by_countryWe’re #1 among rich nations.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html?_r=0
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member over 7 years ago
The majority of guns are sold without any kind of background check. In several states if you can cloud a mirror, you can carry a gun around. While I do support the right of a citizen in good standing to own a gun, our regulatory policy is insane.
Happy Two Shoes over 7 years ago
Last year more Americans were killed by young children with guns than were killed by terrorists.
Mr. Blawt over 7 years ago
over 8 thousand killed by guns already, almost 400 of them under 11. 228 killed in a mass shooting. But the NRA wants to keep USA number one when it comes to killings with guns. While the Republicans try to make America look like Rio.
ms-ss over 7 years ago
So many people don’t understand the Constitution.
Or that it can be changed by lawful means.
hawgowar over 7 years ago
The US has AT LEAST 310 million guns lawfully owned by some 350 million private citizens, and literally Billions of rounds of ammunition. This includes up to heavy machine guns, auto canons, artillery, rocket launchers, antitank weapons and mortars.
This fact makes the US unconquerable. Even back in the day when Glasnost broke out, the old Soviet generals admitted they never considered trying to invade the US as we would be impossible to occupy because of our privately held guns and high umber of veterans. Think Red Dawn times about a million.
I postulate that, per gun, the US has the lowest gun crime rate in the developed world. The only possible contender would be Switzerland with pretty much a REAL assault rifle (many with grenade launchers attached) in every home.
The US leads the developed world in crime rates, period. However, since 1980, violent crime has been cut in half while gun ownership has roughly doubled. Something you’ll not see on MSNBC. So when gun ownership goes up, crime goes down.
No, I do not belong to the NRA – I cant stand Wayne LaPierre.
Yes, I am a military veteran (USMC and then Army, retired). I have seen what happens in nations where private citizens do not have the right to keep and bear arms. Only government thugs and criminals possess firearms in that case.
As I have said before, when the crazy ones decide to stop using guns and use bombs, we’ll see real body counts. The Trench coat weenies in Columbine had a backpack full of pipe bombs loaded with small nails as shrapnel that they accidentally locked outside. If they had not locked them outside the casualty rate of Columbine would have been far, FAR higher.
Any fool can build a bomb. Anyone with any experience in explosives at all can take the common chemicals and other items in your house and make a bomb powerful enough to blow out the walls and drop the roof into the basement. With a 25 minute lesson you can make the high explosive TATP (the shoe bomber explosive) in your kitchen sink with things you can legally buy at Walmart and any hardware store.
Guns are a smokescreen. Violent crimes are half what they were in the 80s yet media coverage of them is up about a thousand percent. What is the media’s hidden agenda? Why does the media insist on trying to keep us in a permanent state of fear? You are over 3,000 times more likely to be killed in an auto accident than in a mass shooting. You are ten thousand times more likely to be killed by a medical error than by an “assault weapon”.
Your doctor, hospital and pharmacy are far deadlier than a nut with a gun.
ARodney over 7 years ago
Although the number of guns owned in America has gone up, the rate of gun ownership has gone down. It’s skewed by a small number of ammosexuals who go out and buy guns every time there’s a mass shooting, because the NRA tells them that THIS TIME the scary black president is bound to come and take their guns. The NRA is now funded by gun manufacturers, and does not have its members’ interest at heart.
Dtroutma over 7 years ago
With registration and licensing you CAN own fully automatic machine guns, AND as collectors, even old Army tanks! Registration and licensing does NOT interfere with the RIGHT of gun ownership as Scalia noted in “DC vs Heller” and he pointed out it is , under the Constitution, the DUTY of government to regulate arms when you leave your domicile and “home defense” is not the issue.
BTW; those who are good with an air rifle at 10 meters, will also be very good with a .308 at 1,000 meters, and with a Barrett .50 and a little training, 2,000 meters, and more, isn’t that big a trick.
But, the overwhelming gun death rates in the US are linked to HAND GUNS. It’s just that with large magazines and longer barrels, you can kill more, from further away, with rifles like the AR-15 or reload and use a Remington 700 BDL with a bull barrel and bipod.
Also, most gun deaths are NOT from trained and experienced firearms owners and shooters, they’re done by nuts with guns (not insane, just “nuts” with an axe to grind).
Kip W over 7 years ago
Big thanks to all those commenters who made a special trip here to point out that it was an air rifle. I would not have known that without looking at the cartoon!
Happy Two Shoes over 7 years ago
Congress, especially the GOP, loves it arms manufacturing lobby bribes more than your life.