Posted on 09/23/2013 6:42:07 PM PDT by Innovative
The death toll from firearms in the US suggests that the country is gripped by civil war
The annual toll from firearms in the US is running at 32,000 deaths and climbing, even though the general crime rate is on a downward path (it is 40% lower than in 1980). If this perennial slaughter doesn't qualify for intercession by the UN and all relevant NGOs, it is hard to know what does.
But no nation sees itself as outsiders do. Half the country is sane and rational while the other half simply doesn't grasp the inconsistencies and historic lunacy of its position, which springs from the second amendment right to keep and bear arms, and is derived from English common law and our 1689 Bill of Rights. We dispensed with these rights long ago, but American gun owners cleave to them with the tenacity that previous generations fought to continue slavery.
There is absolutely nothing he (Obama) can do, which underscores the fact that America is in a jam and that international pressure may be one way of reducing the slaughter over the next generation. This has reached the point where it has ceased to be a domestic issue. The world cannot stand idly by.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The UK does a phenomenal job to cook its books on murders and violent crimes. A homicide cannot be classified as a murder until there is a conviction. Total BS about their lower murder rates. Read that in a FR post about a year ago - sorry, no link but that was the short of it.
Brits telling us about “our” crime problem is laughable.
They can come and take Eric Holder et al, all the ne’er-do-well sons of Barack, illegal aliens, crazed muzzies, and that would bring bring down the numbers to something manageable.
There are about the same number of drunk driving deaths in the US, too. Should the world intervene and take our cars away, too?
As for those firearms deaths, I’ll venture that the majority of those involved alcoholic beverages. Should the world impose prohibition on us again?
And what about Islam? I’ll venture that pathogen killed ten times as many last year.
How about eradicating that scourge?
...I noticed that Muslim beheadings are rising in Britain....
Twice, actually.
Here’s an idea. Have Henry Porter come to my neighborhood to intervene.
We’re not there yet. I pray we get there soon.
What crap.
The author is not interested in facts. Two thirds of the “gun deaths” that he quotes are suicides. Total suicides and murders for the United States are about 16 per 100,000.
Japan has 26 suicides per 100,000.
By the authors twisted emotional rant (one cannot dignify it by calling it logic) then the UN should be interceding in Japan as well.
Logic and Liberals do not go well together.
If any country even tries what this article suggests, they will soon understand the difference between a loud mouthed lying figure head .......and reality.
Molone Labe
“Half the country is sane and rational while the other half simply doesn’t grasp the inconsistencies and historic lunacy of its position, which springs from the second amendment right to keep and bear arms”
Half? More than half owns weapons, while the other half cannot grasp it’s lunacy.
Anyway, what is it with the whiny Poms like this pos and Pierce Morgan? What we do in our country has nothing to do with them, so they can sod-off.
I see a lot of misspellings in context of the words "sight," "cite" and "site" on FR posts. It is as though the writers missed a lot in elementary and middle school.
European Murder Rates Compared to the United States: Demographics vs Guns
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/01/european-murder-rates-compared-to.html
Maybe so, but seeing Greenland like that, just didn't make sense to me.
Reason UK doesn’t allow guns is because they would have ten times the deaths due to their pub culture and instability.
Their suicide rate is rising too.
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