Posted on 02/15/2024 6:49:45 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) pointed to Missouri gun laws and blasted the state’s annual gun deaths but failed to mention that California has more than twice as many gun deaths each year.
On November 16, 2023, this author wrote a piece highlighting the left’s tendency to point to firearm-related homicide deaths instead of actual homicide numbers. This allows someone like Newsom to avoid mentioning Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showing California had 3,576 firearm deaths in 2021 while Missouri only had 1,414.
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Well said.
Thugs will be thugs in every state.
California has over 6 times the population compared to Missouri. In round numbers 39 million in CA, 6 million in MO.
St. Louis MO is a nationwide leader of citywide homicide rates and voted about 82% for Biden. I’m not sure what point Newsome is trying to make, pointing at another state whose crime rates are dominated by cities that vote heavily Democrat.
Ok, so what, one person died in the shootout? Ten people shot?
It doesn’t make a difference really.
The Democrats will treat the Kansas incident like George Floyd.
IOW, this is one of the main things they are running on. This and abortion, democracy and transing kids.
So here’s the playbook to get the suburban soccer mom vote.
Per capita data is what counts. CA has a huge population compared to Missouri and why they use per capita.
Example, would you rather live in a state of 40 million with 350 murders per year or a state of 7 million with 200 murders per year?
Some folks (to borrow Jefferson I think) Prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery.
The areas of Missouri (St. Louis city and Kansas City) that make up 95% of the gun violence in my estimate, have a culture that is toxic. Fatherless sons.
How great are your BS laws working in Kalifornia, Gruesome? Shut yer trap.
Gavin mimics China perfectly.
...... I dunno .... The Population of CA is 40 Million and the population of MO is 6.2 Million people. So ... Yes ... There were 2X as many people that Died in CA from Gun Violence ..... However .... What is the percentage of the population that died from Gun Violence in each state??? If we were talking about Cancer .... Which state would be healthier???
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Firearms deaths.
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That’s actually very misleading, just an antigun propaganda.
First - why it matters how somebody got killed. Killing is killing! By guns or by knives, by hanging or burning alive or being beaten to death. I, personally, would prefer a clean shot to all other alternatives.
In countries with very strict gun control, there may not be too many firearms deaths, but the overall murder rate could be bigger then here.
Secondly. The gun deaths often include suicides and accidents. ( And the suicides are again a lot more common than murders)It may make sense, if you got gun in closet and you want to finish it all, you will pull the gun. Otherwise, you will kill yourself anyway, but using different technique.
The gun ownership very well corelates with gun suicides (The Switzerland leads the world in gun suicides!).
But is does not at all corelates with overall suicide rates. I guess Hungary leads in that category.
What matters is the death rate, not the instrument used for killing.
Finally, we should target the worst problem first!
the gun deaths, even including suicides, are a lot less than car accident deaths. The fentanyl deaths dwarf the car deaths and gun deaths added together by a lot (3x)!
And all that is trumped by legal abortions!
So, if we want to save lives, we should start with abortions and then the drugs!
then maybe cars.
When everything above is taken care of, then. maybe, one can start thinking about guns.
Then, maybe airplanes and nukes - those have incredible safety records, but media reports on even slightest incidents in that area!
Unfortunately, the media has its priorities totally reversed!.
Perhaps actually check statistics before pontificating.
I live in Missouri. I’d rather live here than in California, where I’m originally from. But I live in neither St. Louis nor Kansas City, so I don’t get to have to deal with the high murder rate the two ‘urban’ areas have to endure.
I still remember 1982 when California voters rejected gun control. My how far the state has fallen!
Missouri used to have a law that you had to get permission from the local sheriff to buy a handgun. When they found it did nothing to curb crime they dropped that law,
Two times the fatalities, but almost eight times the population.
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