The solution to gun violence is clear (Disarm the dhimmah!)

The Washington Post ^ | December 19, 2012 | Fareed Zakaria

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Announcing Wednesday that he would send proposals on reducing gun violence in America to Congress, President Obama mentioned a number of sensible gun-control measures. But he also paid homage to the Washington conventional wisdom about the many and varied causes of this calamity — from mental health issues to school safety. His spokesman, Jay Carney, had said earlier that this is “a complex problem that will require a complex solution.” Gun control, Carney added, is far from the only answer.

In fact, the problem is not complex, and the solution is blindingly obvious.

People point to three sets of causes when talking about events such as the Newtown, Conn., shootings. First, the psychology of the killer; second, the environment of violence in our popular culture; and, third, easy access to guns. Any one of these might explain a single shooting. What we should be trying to understand is not one single event but why we have so many of them. The number of deaths by firearms in the United States was 32,000 last year. Around 11,000 were gun homicides.

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The data in social science are rarely this clear. They strongly suggest that we have so much more gun violence than other countries because we have far more permissive laws than others regarding the sale and possession of guns. With 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States has 50 percent of the guns.

There is clear evidence that tightening laws — even in highly individualistic countries with long traditions of gun ownership — can reduce gun violence. In Australia, after a 1996 ban on all automatic and semiautomatic weapons — a real ban, not like the one we enacted in 1994 with 600-plus exceptions — gun-related homicides dropped 59 percent over the next decade...

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If he thinks arriving at a deal to avoid sequestration was tough, just wait for this one.

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Around 11,000 were gun homicides. ... FBI Uniform Crime report listed 12,664 murders, of which 8,583 were gun related.

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Lies by parsing. Homicides does not equate to murders, but includes murders, manslaughter (both voluntary & involuntary) AND all justifiable killings, even those by police.

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Gun control, Carney added, is far from the only answer.

But it is the first step to open the door for the real answer....Oh, when those cotton balls get rotten You can't pick very much cotton In them old cotton fields back home

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