The US clearly has "a problem" with gun deaths, but I don't think it's solvable now, it's too late. There are more guns than people. Even if you stopped all further gun sales tomorrow it wouldn't sort out the problem.
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The US clearly has "a problem" with gun deaths, but I don't think it's solvable now, it's too late. There are more guns than people. Even if you stopped all further gun sales tomorrow it wouldn't sort out the problem.
As I just stated the amount of gun related homicides is completely out of proportion with the amount of guns it owns per capita when compared to another country. So the issue is less about how many Guns there are in the United States and more about the conditions which is causing people going round shooting each other.
The media narrative paints an unhelpful picture, you’d believe that Black people were statistically far more likely to die at the hands of police than their white counterparts it simply isn’t true. If you take deaths as a proportion of encounters with police you are far more likely to die as a white person than a person of colour as a result of police shooting.
And let’s be fair colour is less of a metric than stupidity, if someone is pointing a gun at you and tells you not to move, if you resist in anyway you are running the risk of getting a bullet. Whether you think a potential arrest is fair or not is incidental, why risk death because you’re upset about being treated unfairly.
And then again statistically a standard beat cop will most likely spend their entire career without ever having to pull their weapon out of their holster, so the cops in question tend to be panicking jackasses (even more reason not to protest or make sudden movements)
The vast majority of Americans don’t own guns, I would argue that Guns causing more deaths than Motorists in 2020 might suggest you want to make getting a gun at least as difficult as getting a drivers licence
Depp :bow:
Appreciate the fact you've informed yourself, unlike almost everyone else.
The best tactic to avoid a mass shooter is well known and very effective. Disperse, at speed. Police response times, even if they are not actively working with the shooter, are pathetic. So your best chance is to give the shooter too many simultaneous targets to hit, even if the psychotropic drug infested state hire (maybe you know what I'm talking about) has an auto weapon. It's extremely difficult for an untrained weapons handler to actually hit a moving target - the difference between responsible gun owners and big pharma victims. Some will die, yes. Most will evade and escape. The instruction to shelter is a deliberate design to get more people killed, for political reasons of course.
Too cynical? Only those without imagination will think so.
Went into London today to see the stuff
Couldn’t get on to The Mall but watched the flypast from Trafalgar Square
Pomp :bow:
Ceremony :bow:
So, you saw fuck all?
I will.
STFU while I check
Airplanes, helicopters and lots of people.
Mind you, Hamleys! :bow:
Any damage to the wallet?
And about 7.4 billion flags.
Good to see all that St Totteringham’s Day bunting was finally put to good use.
It wasn’t quite how I imagined the day, I didn’t think The Mall would be that mental. But we did have a good view of the flypast which was the main thing I wanted to see.
Oh and no, we managed to position it that we’d go into Hamleys to look for things which he might want Santa to bring him. Us :bow: