Gun Violence: Understand The Statistics

"Listen to the southern right talk about violence in America and you’d think New York City was as dangerous as Bakhmut on Ukraine’s eastern front.

"In October, Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis proclaimed crime in New York City was 'out of control' and blamed it on George Soros. Another Sunshine State politico, former president Donald Trump, offered his native city up as a Democrat-run dystopia, one of those places 'where the middle class used to flock to live the American dream are now war zones, literal war zones.' In May 2022, hours after 19 children were murdered at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott swatted back suggestions that the state could save lives by implementing tougher gun laws by proclaiming 'Chicago and L.A. and New York disprove that thesis.'

"In reality, the region the Big Apple comprises most of is far and away the safest part of the U.S. mainland when it comes to gun violence, while the regions Florida and Texas belong to have per capita firearm death rates (homicides and suicides) three to four times higher than New York’s. On a regional basis, it’s the southern swath of the country — in cities and rural areas alike — where the rate of deadly gun violence is most acute, regions where Republicans have dominated state governments for decades."

Memo to conservatives: be honest and talk "per capita" and not "total" by locale.

The Surprising Geography of Gun Violence

The USA Is Devolving Into Fear And Ignorance

"Writer Anand Giridharadas discusses the recent stories of a young woman shot in New York after turning around in the wrong driveway and a Kansas City teen shot after ringing the wrong doorbell and what it says about our society."

Click on the link below for a video regarding the recent shootings of innocent people out of irrational fear and easy access to guns:

Anand Giridharadas: We aren't just dividing as a society, we are de-developing

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Another video

The Conservative Position On Firearms SHATTERED!!

THE 2nd AMENDMENT

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I have posted many times on the topic of gun control. However, I have never been exposed to what Jon Stewart recently did to a gun rights ideologue. Get your popcorn and click on the link below (watch through Brian Tyler Cohen's analysis):

Jon Stewart BREAKS THE INTERNET demolishing Republican TO HIS FACE

Reducing Gun Violence

"Today we take a look at some of the obvious steps we need to take to reduce gun violence in the United States, debunk some of the favored propaganda supporting unfettered gun ownership and explore the origins of how Gun Culture™ was invented by corporations as the frontier era need for guns began to vanish pushing them to convert guns from tools that were needed but not loved into items that were loved though no longer needed."

Click on the link below for a podcast presenting the history of guns in the USA and a science-based approach to mitigating gun violence:

Marketing, Messaging, and Mass Shootings

The Serious Problem Of Psychopathy

Presently there is much discussion over the role of mental illness in violent crime. Unfortunately, there is more heat than light on the subject. Yes, many perpetrators of such do have emotional and psychological issues. However, there are many varieties of such, as there is with physical medical dysfunction. This post is focusing on what is arguably the most harmful of mental dysfunctions: psychopathy. Click on the link below for a clear picture of when it usually begins in such a person's life and how hard it is to treat. If you are a believer in counter-causal free will, this will at least give you pause.

When Your Child Is a Psychopath

It's The Guns, Stupid

"Along with the usual thoughts and prayers, candlelight vigils and T-shirts proclaiming 'Santa Fe Strong,' there came, sure enough, a cabal of firearms-fetishizing public figures eager to blame anything, anything, anything except the most obvious thing: the ready availability of guns."

All other 1st World countries have all of the social negatives that the USA has, and yet:

(Humanosphere)

 

Can the USA admit it has been wrong?

Mass Shootings and Reality

This post is only for science-based thinkers. Others may carry on with harmful ideology.

5 things to know about mass shootings in America

 

One Reason Almost All Mass Shooters Are Male

Gun violence is not caused by one, or even a few, factors.  This article presents the case that how our society is raising its males should be getting greater scrutiny.

Accept What Science Says On Any Topic

It is easy to assume a cause for something through intuition when the truth can be known through accepting science:

Focus on mental health criticized

Of Course It Is A Public Health Issue

It is more than about time to stand up to the NRA and the gun lobby.

AMA Decides Gun Violence is a Public Health Issue

How To Dramatically Reduce Terrorism

The USA is in a seemingly never-ending series of mass shootings from individuals who, upon investigation after the fact, clearly showed those around them warning signs.  Yes, better gun laws and enforcement of such is important.  Yes, official surveillance needs to improve.  However, the single most effective tool to reduce terrorism is vigilance by everyone and the reporting of suspicious activity to law enforcement because "somebody always sees something."

In Charlotte terrorism case, unlike Orlando, somebody picked up the phone

Gun Violence Misconceptions

"Here’s the bottom line. With these provisions, most US active shooters would have been denied the purchase of a firearm."

Does the US have the moral fortitude to take appropriate, constitutional, evidence-based action to significantly reduce this scourge?

6 Things Americans Should Know about Mass Shootings

Religion Is At Its Base

What is the basic motivating factor for LGBT violence and discriminatory laws?  Note the links below regarding the teachings, not individual beliefs about such, of Christianity and Islam on the subject.  Now, picture a society where science-based thinking and actions were overwhelming the basic harmful teachings* of Christianity and Islam.  While the vast majority of religious PEOPLE are honest and peaceful, these religions contain teachings that inspire and inflame those who, for whatever reason, are deluded and/or mentally unstable:

The Best Retort To Unreasonable Gun Rights Advocates Ever

We Are Not Looking To Disarm You.

Gun Violence: A Public Health Issue With Unclear Research

"No one study will end the gun debate, but this latest contribution is an interesting and challenging one. It deserves careful consideration by those in both ideological camps."

A New Study on Guns and Homicide