"Many people understandably assume the high number of gun deaths in the U.S. is due to mass shootings, which receive frequent attention from the media. In truth, mass shootings account for only a small percentage of gun deaths in the United States. Rather, nearly two-thirds, 63 percent of gun deaths in the US in 2019 were suicides."
24 Nov 22
@dork saidNobody cares about gang on gang killings
They ignore the 15,000 gang shootings and focus on the remaining 5000 white boys.
He wasn't in the game!
24 Nov 22
@AThousandYoung
If nobody cares about gang violence then why do they include those deaths to make their case against guns?
24 Nov 22
@dork saidI don't know who "they" are or what case you are referring to.
@AThousandYoung
If nobody cares about gang violence then why do they include those deaths to make their case against guns?
24 Nov 22
@dork saidPeople DO care about the suicides. Guns make a momentary suicidal impulse very easy to act on. Suicide without guns isn't that easy if you think about it.
So if you take out the suicides and the gang violence you would have very low gun death stats but y'all keep on ignoring those two factors and focus on a few mass shooters.
24 Nov 22
@dork saidIs that a thread, 'wood?
Open border will backfire in a few years.
Get ready for a lot more gun violence.
24 Nov 22
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@athousandyoung saidThe threat is from your new friends crossing the border.
Is that a thread, 'wood?
You'll see.
Countries with the Highest Rates of Violent Gun Death (Homicides) per 100k residents in 2019
El Salvador — 36.78
Venezuela — 33.27
Guatemala — 29.06
Colombia — 26.36
Brazil — 21.93
Bahamas — 21.52
Honduras — 20.15
U.S. Virgin Islands — 19.40
Puerto Rico — 18.14
Mexico — 16.41
24 Nov 22
@dork saidYeah they're all dominated and exploited by the USA under the Monroe Doctrine.
You see any similarity with the countries on that list?
South Americans coming to a town near you ha haa
24 Nov 22
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https://www.lawg.org/arming-the-conflict-el-salvadors-gun-market/
All guns in El Salvador come from outside the country – it has no domestic gun manufacturers. While many firearms flow in along the same routes used to traffic drugs up to the United States, many also come down from the United States in shipments of old appliances and car parts.
https://citizentruth.org/us-policy-is-inextricably-linked-to-the-refugee-crisis-in-central-america/
During the Cold War, Latin America’s sovereign political institutions were molested with total impunity by the United States. When the CIA overthrew the democratically elected president of Guatemala in 1954, it was with the pretext of protecting national security and preventing communist expansion. But in truth, the president of Guatemala was redistributing unused land from a US-based multinational corporation, United Fruit Company, to the people of his country. The director of the CIA and the Secretary of State at the time were stockholders and former legal advisors to United Fruit Company, and used the full might of the US deep state to safeguard the business interests of their client.
25 Nov 22
@dork saidhttps://www.npr.org/2022/06/25/1107626030/biden-signs-gun-safety-law
Every gun death is the fault of the person pulling the trigger.
2 years the Democrats had the House and the Senate yet they didn't do anything about guns.
Same story when Obama was stinking up the White House.