The U.S. surgeon general is declaring gun violence a public health crisis, driven by a growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. Dr.
  • SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Ok, here’s Motherjones guide to mass shootings

    Weapons: Of the 143 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally. They included dozens of assault weapons and semi-automatic handguns with high-capacity magazines. (See charts below.) Just as a perpetrator used a .40-caliber Glock to slaughter students in Red Lake, Minnesota, in 2005, so too did the one in Aurora, along with an AR-15 assault rifle, when blasting away at his victims in a darkened movie theater. In Newtown, Connecticut, the attacker wielded a .223 Bushmaster semi-automatic assault rifle as he massacred 20 school children and six adults.

    Yea nothing here proves that the GVA isn’t bullshit…

    https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/no-there-were-not-355-mass-shootings-this-year/

    That’s two left leaning anti-2a publishers who even call out the GVA. It’s not a reputable source.

    Or here’s Pew Research: About eight-in-ten U.S. murders in 2021 – 20,958 out of 26,031, or 81% – involved a firearm.

    The overall increase in U.S. gun deaths since the beginning of the pandemic includes an especially stark rise in such fatalities among children and teens under the age of 18. Gun deaths among children and teens rose 50% in just two years, from 1,732 in 2019 to 2,590 in 2021.

    Yes the pandemic years where an outlier and has drastically dropped back to pre-pandemic levels and now furthering the trend of continued decrease in overall violence/crime. This stilll…once again, has nothing to do with the GVA being a shit source…

    The rate of children dying to firearms in the US is 6.01 per 100,000

    Yea during the pandemic… it’s not anymore as I said, and further still not on topic.

    The rate of children dying to firearms in Canada is 0.21 per 100,000

    Same as above…

    In 2023, 754 people died in mass shootings in the USA.

    No they did not, the term mass shooting in the eyes of the public is like uvalde or LA…not gang violence or drug violence. People see mass shootings as random acts that target indiscriminately…this also once again bullshit.

    In Canada, there have been 171 deaths to mass shootings for all of the 21st century so far. We would have had to lose 83 people per year to shootings to keep up with you for 2023. We lost 11.

    O you’re Canadian…why am I arguing this with you… you’re not in the USA.