Turn on the TV and all you see is violence on every channel, every show. Violent video games. Boxing is about dead because it isnt violent enough. We are a nation in love with violent entertainment and begging for more.
Turn on the TV and all you see is violence on every channel, every show. Violent video games. Boxing is about dead because it isnt violent enough. We are a nation in love with violent entertainment and begging for more.
Boxing should just become Mortal Kombat. Been waiting for a Kano vs Sonya Blade rematch
The brain gets programmed through repetition. So what in the hell was this kids brain focusing on leading up to this incident? I doubt he was thinking about football. That, and if he was on any medication that can trigger off those deviant homicidal/suicidal parts of an already messed up brain.
I don't understand how someone can hurt 22 people with a knife without someone at least tackling him. Especially a scrawny teenager.
Good question - the US is different from every other country in that you are only a new country, developed by immigrants who were seeking a new life and wealth. Since the birth of your nation, guns were needed for protection either to fight off native americans, those pesky Brits or other people also looking for a piece of your american dream (and a bunch of cattle or piece of land). As guns evolved with your country so did the gun culture.
Now if you are asking about astronomical gun deaths in gang land killings - new gun laws would not stop this (these people are by definition criminals and would not abide by the laws) if however you are asking about the astronomical amount of lone teenage gunmen - that is an issue that is rooted in the individuals warped mind, would gun laws stop these deaths - probably yes.....but the individual should still be held accountable and so should the society that over medicates and does not address these peoples behaviour/psychological needs earlier.
Finally if you are refering to your countries high spouse death at the hands of guns - that is also potentially remedied by gun laws, but again the cause of this runs much deeper - this is to do with male hegemony and how this is perpetuated by a number of things including religion.
Other countries like Finland have relatively relaxed gun laws and heavy gun ownership but no crime, why - their culture is different, the peoples beliefs system is different and (i believe somewhat controversially, they dont have literal bible believers who think earthquakes are caused by homosexuals spreading poison about how society is damned).
So, in summary, do i have all the answers - NO, is my opinion right, probably not, BUT, will gun laws solve the US problem with gun crime - NO.
I need to go to work and have not read this back, so i hope it makes sense of my opinion.
Read it back now. It makes no sense. Lol
I guess what I mean is correlation does not equal causation.
I would look at other counties with relaxed gun laws but low crime and eye what other factors influence the crime rate.
Yes, that Definately makes more sense (to me at least)
Switzerland is another example. All military aged men are required by law to maintain a semi auto rifle in their home with a supply of ammo. In addition, the U.S. murder rate is pretty comparable with Europe apart from a comparatively small subset of urban areas. Interestingly, a Quinnipiac college study indicated that the more restrictive a state's gun laws were the higher their murder rate.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/1...51.2013.854294The purpose of the present study is to determine the effects of state-level assault
weapons bans and concealed weapons laws on state-level murder rates. Using
data for the period 1980 to 2009 and controlling for state and year fixed effects,
the results of the present study suggest that states with restrictions on the carrying
of concealed weapons had higher gun-related murder rates than other states. It
was also found that assault weapons bans did not significantly affect murder rates
at the state level. These results suggest that restrictive concealed weapons laws
may cause an increase in gun-related murders at the state level. The results of this
study are consistent with some prior research in this area, most notably Lott and
Mustard (1997).
Equating murders with religious observance? Really? That was simply absurd.
“What fresh hell is this?”
"A man who picks a cat up by the tail learns something which he can learn in no other way." - Mark Twain
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/...ublic-unaware/
Interesting read
In 2010, there were 3.6 gun homicides per 100,000 people, compared with 7.0 in 1993, according to CDC data.
In 2010, CDC data counted 11,078 gun homicide deaths, compared with 18,253 in 1993.5
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