Gun Violence Thread

Discussion in 'Politics, Religion and Philosophy -(FORUM CLOSED)-' started by therealdeal, Jun 14, 2016.

  1. Azndude2190

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    Well Christina Grimmie's brother tackled her killer and he had a gun. That took tremendous courage, so I do think people would be more confident against someone with a knife.And in general too. If I was in that Orlando club, 10/10 times I would much rather prefer the guy be holding a kitchen knife, then a AR-15.
     
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    There's a difference between blind courage and confidence. The guy with the knife has the upper hand. Unless you have combat training on how to disarm a person with a knife, I don't see how you can confidently tackle that person.
     
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    Ya but I mean all attackers to some degree will have the element of surprise no matter the weapon, I guess what I should have said was that If you are the dude close to someone who is being attacked, I think you will more likely find the courage in you to tackle the person and disarm him/her vs a person who has a gun shooting at multiple people in succession at a distance.
     
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    Sure, but there's a reason why we don't have "Save a life. Turn in your knife" campaigns here in the USA. Knife perps get shot. Either by police or by armed citizens.
     
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    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36550304

    So a British member of parliament is now dead after a wacko with a homemade gun shot her. You can do all the "gun control" you want. People who are determined to kill will find a way to do it. So what option do law-abiding citizens in the UK have to protect themselves? Nothing.
     
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    Our society is getting more and more isolated from each other. People sit at home and read Youtube comments and Reddit for all their social interaction. All labor is behind a keyboard. People witness other people's Facebook status and question why their lives are so horrible. We are a depressed nation. We are a lonely nation. People are being "shamed" constantly for their looks, intelligence, hobbies...People aren't connecting the way they used to. That's why there are mass shootings, suicides, etc.
     
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    That's not an issue of our nation then, but of our times. There's no way around technological advancement, and quite frankly I think you're exaggerating things. People weren't being "shamed" for their looks/intelligences/hobbies before? People used to connect more before? I just don't think that's true. That's nostalgia and bias for the past. Technology and social media definitely have aspects that isolate us, but it also brings people together like never before. Before, you'd be called a nerd if you liked a certain video game (as an example). Now you can find an online community of people who like it just as much as you do, and play that game with friends/family across the country. If Reddit/Twitter/YouTube/Facebook ceased to exist, do you think people would suddenly leave their houses to hang out with other people in person all the time? No, they'd just sit around and watch cable TV instead. I think it's vastly oversimplifying the problem to blame mass shootings and suicide on the increased incorporation of computers and technology into our daily lives.
     
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    Yes, gun control is flawed because a truly determined whacko will find illegal ways to obtain a gun, or use some other sort of deadly homemade weapon.

    But I'm genuinely curious; how many shootings or violent crimes have been successfully stopped by a nearby citizen who happened to have a gun?

    I don't have stats to back this up, but I feel like the amount of guns you'd have to disperse to the public in order to give them the power to occasionally stop violent crimes ... would be offset by the increased amount of violent crimes due to having so many guns out in public.
     
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    Right now, approximately 5-10 per year out of 30,000 incidents of mass shootings
     
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    whoa whoa. That number doesn't sound right. What is considered a mass shooting?

    http://www.vox.com/a/mass-shootings-calendar-june-2016

    That link says 133 this year (still a lot but not 30,000 a lot). Their criteria is 4 or more people shot (not necessarily killed) not including the gunman.

    Also of note: carriers permits are a pain in the a** to get, especially in heavily populated areas. It's virtually impossible in California unless you're a security officer of some sort.
     
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    I like this guy's dry sarcasm.
     
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    There are already millions of guns and bullets in the USA. They are not going to disappear the instant private gun ownership is banned. Taliban troops shot 19th century British muskets at our soldiers. Guns can last a long time if properly stored. And as long as they are available on the black market, organized criminals or deranged murderers will find a way to get their hands on them.

    Also, as RD has already explained. Law abiding citizens are rarely allowed to carry weapons outside their home. Until that changes, this argument doesn't hold much merit. Even if they are allowed by law to carry, the properties that these crimes take place at are usually "gun-free zones" like schools.
     
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    I'm factoring in "ghetto" shootings that never get counted
     
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    Well that's hard to quantify because a) that's an estimate! and b) those guns are by a vast majority purchased and handled illegally. Stricter gun control laws aren't going to do much to stem that violence.
     
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    Those aren't a factor for the question though. He was just asking how many shootings or violent crimes have been successfully stopped by a nearby citizen who happened to have a gun? It is an estimate of course, but it's not really coming to any conclusions about gun laws. It's just an answer to the question.
     
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    I understand that, but I just have no idea how close of an estimate that actually is. I don't think there's been 30,000 mass shootings in our country so far this year by ^ that definition of 4 or more people were injured. Has there been 30,000 incidents of "someone was injured" or "a gun was fired" yeah probably but going from 133 to 30,000 I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around those numbers.
     
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    I'll try to find you the stats later.
     
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    Okay so I just need some clarity.

    That 30,000 number includes deaths from war or battle? Accidental deaths? Suicides? Or is just solely murders/homicides? The chart doesn't actually say how many people die, just the number of attacks.

    That Washington Post article cites a sub-reddit. I'm not saying it's a bad source, but I'm taking it with a bit of a grain of salt. Just hard to trust the source 100%. That being said, I went through it and they seem legit. They certainly seem to include any and all incidents they hear about which includes urban violence as long as it's reported. I'm aware there's a lot of violence that goes unreported, but I'm not sure it's as high as 30,000 people murdered...

    Now if it includes suicides and accidental deaths (say an irresponsible parent or something), then it falls into what I'm okay with in a psych eval. A psych eval should keep a lot of guns out of those people's hands.
     

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