Why America's Gun Violence Will NEVER END!
I hate to write this but we had enough of Mass shootings . They don't seem to go away , what country has the most gun violence ? IT'S AMERICA . Our nation is a kinda wild wild west , with huge profits of gun sales . Statistics shows About 22.8 million firearms were sold in 2020, compared with 13.9 million the previous year, according to estimates by the Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting, an independent research firm. In 2020, the FBI conducted more firearm background checks than any year on record—more than 39.6 million, data from the agency shows. NO TO TRAMPLE ON (1)>>SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS . (1.2)>>BUT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN OUR NATION ? I think it is absolute madness. Why you cannot enact simple and logical reforms to limit access to firearms while working on the deeper mental health and societal problems that like drive a lot of this is something I do not understand? The latest shooting in San Jose Ca at the VTA station is one too many . The suspects are always have been under the radar of the law where red flags somehow get ignored. Given that something like 70% of gun homicides occur in about dozen of the poorest urban areas in the country, like Detroit, and these places typically vote Democratic, I would suppose that most would occur in Democratic counties. One of the problems with gun control is that rural white folk account for, like, 15% of gun homicides but own the majority of guns, so any restriction tends to hit them despite them largely being responsible gun owners.Most shootings and gun homicide occur in cities and districts that vote heavily left. (2)>>Chicago and Detroit come to mind. Since the 1990's mass shootings , gun violence among gangs have been increasing for the last decades . As far as mass shootings, there's credible sources stating that after almost every "mass shooting" (FBI defines as 4 or more people) is covered heavily by the media, there's a 13 day contagion period where it's actually contagious and a shooting will most likely happen in the next 13 days. Shooters are usually inspired by other shooters. Several have "given credit" or flat out said they were "inspired by" a past shooter. I'm not saying that reducing media coverage and not naming the shooter would eliminate all mass shootings, but it's definitely not helping.The biggest reason the media covers these things like they do is because of ratings. People relentlessly watch the coverage. The news media is no longer about informing people, the news media is there for entertainment first and foremost. Once people stop watching mass shooting coverage like they do, the media will stop reporting on them like they do. The government is completely powerless to stop places like CNN from doing 24/7 "breaking news" of mass shootings since the US Constitution grants the press freedom from government regulation. I don't get why the Democratic establishment is trying to use this to push bans on AR-style "assault weapons," nation-wide red flag laws, and high-capacity magazine bans, banning "ghost guns" ... when none of these things would've prevented this incident. He committed his crimes with (3)>>California-compliant handguns that were not "ghost guns". Why don't we keep things simple and just work on the laws that we already have? People with domestic violence charges aren't allowed to get firearms federally, yet obviously this guy got around it in the most gun-control-strict state. And he apparently talked about killing his co-workers yet no one used California's red flag laws to stop him. This happens more and more often until the next mass shooting happens . WILL MASS SHOOTINGS EVER END? Even President Joe Biden calls mass shootings “a national embarrassment.” But Biden’s double-negative defense — “I’ve never not prioritized this” — isn’t quite the same as making it his top priority.Since Columbine, mass shootings have become increasingly common in America. In 2017, it was said the U.S. makes up less than 5 percent of the world's population but has 31 percent of the world's mass shooters, according to Business Insider.In 2021, there has been a recorded number of 147 mass shootings, according to CNN. However, the concept of mass shootings isn’t new to American culture. So there , they are not likely to end at all . Mostly we probably have another ,another and another with no end .
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(1)>>SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS . Gun control takes firearms out of EVERYONES hands to include the sane honest people who use them in self defense. What are the statistics on the people who have stopped or prevent horrific acts because they are armed and used their weapon for good? I would be curious to know.I also know many folks who literally feed their families because they hunt for their meat. For them, hunting is cheaper than buying meat in a store and they get by because they can do this.The second amendment reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The right refers to a firearm that one could operate by themselves and be used for some conceivable lawful purpose. Militia's would not have been arming themselves with a broadsword when called, they would have came with firearms from their own homes. The historical background of early America and the function of the militia in that context is important for understanding the distinction. People now interpret it to be more conducive of the common man. The right to bear arms in a militia is quite a testy subject these days. Anything that is classified as a weapon, could fall under 2nd amendment rights because it does not specify what "arms" are. However modern laws consider things that our Forefathers never conceived possible. GPS guided bombs, Howitzers, and tanks, weapons of mass casualty were never thought of due to their concepts being foreign to those who wrote the law. The notion that the Second Amendment guarantees the unfettered private ownership of all weapons is a bogus interpretation, and a fairly recent one (in the mainstream) at that. Up until about the 70s or so, all bona fide Constitutional scholars agreed the purpose of the 2nd was precisely what it says, to guarantee the right to well-regulated militias, and thus, it was something of an antique, much like the 6th, which prohibits quartering of troops in private homes in peacetime. The SCOTUS also held this view, as in US v Miller, 1938, which upheld the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (which made most automatic weapons, bazookas, etc illegal). Prior to the NFA, private ownership of things like fully-automatic weapons, sawed-off shotguns, and so on, was not controlled. The 1938 ruling, as well as the NFA, still stands. It was really only the real lunatic fringe who held that the amendment guaranteed the unfettered private ownership of weapons. Further, the NRA at that time was an organization for gun owners, mainly hunters. They actively fought for stricter gun control on several occasions. Conservative demigod Ronald Reagan signed some of the strictest gun control legislation in the country when he was governor of California(1)>>BUT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN OUR NATION ? Yes but when people think about "Mass Shootings" they also think about Columbine or whatever else. That's why people act a bit contentious with this, because such a broad definition includes specific crimes such as murdering your own family, or gang fights, or other such acts of violence. But if you just say it like it's being said, it becomes a rash of uncontrollable and random violence by random, unbalanced nutjobs!!!! And to go even further with your point, why stop at just people shot in that case? If you actually think about it, most shooters don't even manage to just hit the amount of people they wanted to, let alone kill them. So you're still giving them a pass for things like bad aim. Believe we have exceeded 300 murders this year in Baltimore. The overwhelming majority involved drugs and/or gang activity. The number shot by police is under a tenth of a percent. It's not Cletus out in the woods with a healthy gun collection that likes hunting and fishing that is committing the majority of the crime. Its little gang bangers with stolen guns that "wanna be gangsta". (2)>>Chicago and Detroit come to mind. Detroit is far more deadly than Chicago. The Murder Rates being 20.2 and 12.1 per 100,000 people.Detroit gun laws are almost as onerous as Chicago, Gun Control Facts: Detroit Crime Rate is the Result Of Gun Control, however Chicago became more publicly known due to the 2010 McDonald v. Chicago Supreme Court Case that the city lost. McDonald v. City of Chicago - Wikipedia In either case both are generally good examples of the facts that gun laws do not prevent crime.Laws were intended in our country to give society a legal way to punish those who broke societal norms. They were never intended to prevent crime and those who believe they do are simple or simply mislead or lying. I think the example that people often give of a particular area (“Baltimore has strict gun laws and they have a lot of homicides”) are poor examples. All violent crime is not the same. All homicides are not the same. Actions that work in one city will be less effective in another. For instance, if you look at the crack epidemic from the 80’s, it hit LA and DC very hard. Both saw major increases in homicide rates. But the strategies that worked in each urban area were very different. In LA, the effective strategies focused more on gangs (infiltrating gangs, gang prevention. But in DC, there were no counterparts to the Bloods and the Crips (and their respective alliances). There were hundreds of open-air crack markets in DC each run by 3–5 people who were buddies (not a gang). Infiltrating them was near impossible. The way that DC reduced their homicides was to focus on guns and then vice issues (to try and get people off of crack and reduce the market).Second, the challenge with looking at cities is that their laws are so easily circumvented by local communities. For instance, Indiana makes gun purchases very easy and that’s just 45 minutes from Chicago.Third, the concept of “strict gun laws” is a joke. You can have a city like Chicago that has strong regulation against long guns and weapons like an AR-15 but still allow handgun purchases. Chicago doesn’t ban handguns and doesn’t make it particularly hard to get them. And the challenge with having a locality with stronger laws (say…a background check) is that it’s only as good as the information going in to the system. So if other states don’t consistently put in information in to a national database or the US military doesn’t put in information about individuals with domestic violence charges than when a city does a background check, someone shows up as clean. That’s the big fallacy of assuming this is a state and local problem. (3)>>California-compliant handguns that were not "ghost guns". With limited exceptions, California prohibits anyone from possessing an assault weapon (as defined by state law), unless they lawfully possessed the firearm prior to the date it was defined as an assault weapon and registered the firearm with the California Department of Justice (“DOJ”) within the timeframes established by state law.1 "Five months later, California enacted the country’s first ban on assault weapons. " To be sure, California has not been alone in fighting back, or at least trying to. Amid the fierce Congressional gun-control deadlock that followed the Columbine High School shootings. So HOW DID THE SAN JOSE VTA shooter get his AKA's ? ACCORDING TO The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said investigators discovered multiple cans of gasoline, suspected Molotov cocktails, a dozen firearms and about 22,000 rounds of ammunition after a search of the gunman’s house. It appears the Cassidy also “coordinated the destruction” of his home, the Sheriff’s Office said. Based on the evidence, “it is clear that this was a planned event and the suspect was prepared to use his firearms to take as many lives as he possibly could,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Investigators also searched the VTA rail yard and found no explosives. The new law also makes it a crime to manufacture, import, sell or give away any magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. BUT , the Democrat states have strong laws and more likely for mass shooting? Twenty five years ago, when Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Congress passed the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act — commonly called the assault weapons ban.It prohibited the manufacture or sale for civilian use of certain semi-automatic weapons. The act also banned magazines that could accommodate 10 rounds or more. So the law failed to protect public safety ?
