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Originally Posted by whomario
Heck: The issue shouldn't even have to be school shooting. As tragic as they are, they represent only a tiny percentage of Gun deaths. The issue ought to be that every year about 30000 people are killed or kill themselves with a Gun. Since 1968 more people have died on US soild due to Guns (homicide, accident or suicide) than US Soldiers have died fighting in all wars combined going back to the revolutionary war and including the Civil War and both WWs : More Americans killed by guns since 1968 than in all U.S. wars, columnist Nicholas Kristof writes | PunditFact
Within 2 years over this period more people will have died from guns in the US than did die in the entire Vietnam War.
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Well this is where the population argument needs to give these stats some context. Many developed no-gun countries have higher suicide rate like Japan and Sweden.
I’m no fan of guns. However, we have very violent government. In order for the gun culture to change the fundamental being of US government needs to changed- through voting I guess.
The country with by far the largest military has a violence problem. The country who uses its military unilaterally has a violence problem. And the government the locks up more people than #2 Russia and #3 China combined has a violence problem.