07-05-2023, 10:29 AM
(07-05-2023, 09:25 AM)Duchess Wrote: The long 4th of July weekend had 16 mass shootings. Fifteen people were killed, 94 injured and it happened in 13 states as well as DC.
Where else in the world does this happen outside of war?
The vast majority of shootings happen in a small number of big cities that have strict gun control. Chicago, Philly, Detroit, St. Louis, LA, and 1 or 2 others. Take them out of the equation and America goes from 3 to something like 193 re global gun violence stats.
Mass media doesn't tell you this because it doesn't support the argument that there isn't enough gun control legislation.
The best kind of gun control, IMO, would be shutting down arms proliferation, and America is probably #1. The other major arms proliferators are the other permanent members of the UN Security Council, China, Russia, the UK, and France, plus Israel.
It's ironic because the ostensible purpose of the UN Security Council is to maintain international peace and security, but what it does in practice is the opposite.
It's not a political problem, Duchess. It's a problem of unaccountability and ignorance. If you don't see the big picture, you can't diagnose the problem, and if you can't diagnose a complex problem, you have no chance at all of solving it.