@Razor @Khagesh
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You are showing stats that are held out by gun lovers.
Ok pointwise, here goes:
1) “92% of gun violence is in Guns Free Zone” - This is meant to show how absense of guns will not bring down shootings/crime.
This should have caused shame for any country but in the case of US it does not. US has put so many guns out there in the open that even gun free zones (schools, prayer halls) are not safe zones. And the problem does not ends here because ultimately the criminal will not target the people of the guns free zone only. He will kill children and people walking in from Guns Only Zone into these Guns Free Zones.
I say the US should arm the people in these Guns Free Zones also. The earlier these pests die, the better off the rest of the world will be. OK that's dark humour only, arguing out your case.
2) “Gun violence has fallen by 50% since 1993 peak”
I agree US has a proud history of gun violence executed in very high standards of democratic and non-partisan traditions -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/mass-shootings-in-america/
The really sad part in the above report is that "The 948 people came from nearly every imaginable race, religion and socioeconomic background, and 145 were children or teenagers." I mean the adults were consenting idiots but what wrong was done by the children and teenagers? And what right of self-defence was being exercised against these children and teenagers? Or on the flip side what rational right of self-defence could have been exercised by these children and teenagers?
I can understand somebody killing the voting adults - they have consented to live in these conditions. But the children too. Even Kansa would have some pity.
How can anybody remain and think straight and normal if they see around them "1,516 mass shootings in 1,735 days" -
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/02/america-mass-shootings-gun-violence
This is more than even the terrorist incidents in India, Pakistan, Libya and Syria, put together.
Unfortunately also despite the slack the shootings are now far more vicious for far less aggravating provocations.
3) "Gun Show Loophole…..laws normally applied to guns" - This is hilarious. How can anybody even cite this as a data point. The second-hand sales market in guns is completely unregulated. Whatever little legal regulation is there is completely perfunctory. There are so many guns out in the open that even if US were to stop production & sales today they would still have guns a 100 years from today. Ammo can be imported from Peshawar.
4) Guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self-defence in USA - This is a gross over estimate. But even if we were to accept this as truth still you have to consider how many of these are successful. The 0.83% rate that wiki gives for gun usage in self defence in cases of serious crimes is not about successful evasion of crimes. But this 2.5 million that you cite is still only about 0.83%. Imagine what the 100% would really be. This 2.5 million is a two edged sword, when the 100% usage (2.5 mil / 0.83% = 301 million incidents) is calculated. Had they lied a little less, the 100% usage (301 million incidents) would have come down by a commensurate value. This itself shows how stupid and mule headed the gun lobby is. What legitimate use can be addressed by this 100% gun usage.
Ref - For violent crimes, assault, robbery, and rape, guns were used 0.83% of the time in self-defense - McDowall, David, Brian Wiersema (1994). "The Incidence of Defensive Firearm Use by US Crime Victims, 1987 through 1990". American Journal of Public Health. 84 (12): 1982–1984. PMC 1615397 Freely accessible. PMID 7998641. doi:10.2105/AJPH.84.12.1982.
5) Countries that banned guns before going to genocides - Surprisingly enough the two notable mentions are of US itself (against natives) and Pakistan (against East Pakistan). Heh heh. But these most of these countries have kept the guns controls even after their respective genocidal actions. And don't forget "1,516 mass shootings in 1,735 days" would have been a bloody genocide had the killings had been well directed against an identifiable group. Not that US citizens as a group do not amount as an identifiable group, but such is the law and its practice. Koi bhi kya kar sak ta hai.
Here read this and laugh a little at the utter stupidity if you may or cry if can grasp the sheer waste.
Also notice the difference in odds in case of "Assault by Guns" and "Assault by Sharp Objects"
. Yeh!!! Man.
http://www.businessinsider.in/Ameri...s-of-nature-combined/articleshow/60917719.cms