There are plenty of proofs that America has no real problem with gun violence compared to the rest of the world. Here’s one:
The Top 5 Worst Gun Massacres by an Individual
| Perpetrator | Location | Date | Victims | |
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1
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Anders Behring Breivik (aged 32, captured) |
Utøya Island, Norway | 22 Jul 2011 | 77 killed, (151 wounded) |
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2
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Woo Bum-Kon (aged 27, suicide at scene) |
Sang-Namdo, South Korea | 26 Apr 1982 | 57 killed, (35 wounded) |
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3
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Martin Bryant (aged 29, captured) |
Port Arthur, Australia | 28 Apr 1996 | 35 killed, (21 wounded) |
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4
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Seung-Hui Cho (aged 23, suicide at scene) |
Blacksburg, Virginia USA | 16 Apr 2007 | 32 killed, (25 wounded) |
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5
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Campo Elías Delgado (aged 52, killed at scene) |
Bogota, Colombia | 4 Dec 1986 | 30 killed, (15 wounded |
When she sent me another proof, a speech delivered the other day at an NRA convention in Texas, I wrote:
Thanks, but I thought we agreed not to argue about politics.
And if you’re going to raise politics, can there be any good reason to send me a purely partisan email? This speech was delivered by a true-believer to a partisan NRA crowd in Texas in defense of “our way of life” (different than those weird “other” Progressive Elites in NYC and Hollywood). Even before I read it I was backing away from this particular speaker. His arguments notwithstanding, I remain unconvinced that guns are as harmless as butter, even if they are as American as apple pie.
Why do ABC and other corporate media (and virtually any other non-NRA source) state numbers about America leading the wealthy world in gun violence by a clear margin? Do you think they might be fronts for people who want to take our American gun rights from us– people who hate our freedom?
There are two sides to every argument and the truth is often a shade of grey neither side will agree to. So, as the NRA speech says, if you subtract the 65% of American gun deaths that are suicides (and these 95% successful suicides were not even counted as gun deaths until very recently) and then subtract all the “urban” gun killings– you know, as you sent me recently, black inner-city gangsters killing each other at rates dis- proportionate to their numbers, liberal perverts killing each other — then America is actually the most peaceful country in the world. I agree 100%.
That only 500 or so were slaughtered in free-lance American gun massacres in 30 years would seem to clinch it. A gun is no more dangerous than a bar of soap. Certainly less dangerous, statistically, than lightning (according to the speech anyway, I didn’t check it) or a lawyer’s crooked mouth.
In retrospect I’m sorry I opined that it’s criminal that a small well-funded group of gun rights activists can override the will of 90% of the population. But you know, I guess if that small group of gun lovers ever got really mad, it would be worse for everyone. So I agree 100%– no laws against any type of firearm! Freedom for all, that’s my motto.
I went too far with the P.S. that follows, but I read a bit more of this decent, compassionate, non-racist, Christian NRA fellow’s flowing speech and eventually I’d swallowed enough of his gas. I’ll delete the PS when I write back to her, if ever, on this subject.
P.S.
And I wish educated speechwriters like this guy speaking to his NRA friends in Texas would stop reminding people that the KKK is a Democratic party apparatus (ignore the eerie irony that this party is now silent in the former Confederacy, now solidly Red, since traitorous double-talking Democrats passed the Civil Rights legislation of the late 60s) and that Liberals and Progressives hate blacks and freedom so much. Most inconvenient truths!!!
I think we can all agree, as the speechifying NRA member says:
We will work together side by side, white, black, Hispanic or native-American. It doesn’t matter because we don’t see those divisions. WE will work together as Americans not only to preserve our rights, but the rights of our children to be safe, our wives and daughters to not be held at knife or gunpoint by a rapist and our most precious and vulnerable little ones to have the right to survive a simple walk down a city street or, God forbid, survive a day of public education.
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