We should listen to what the Saints say is good for America, especially considering the patriotism they showed in London.
Posted on 10/03/2017 9:02:39 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Ever since the tragic shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night, legions of celebrities who have very little knowledge of guns, criminal psychology, mental disorders, or any helpful information. Have taken to Twitter or gone on television to offer their “solutions,” to the problem of mass shootings in America.
The latest such incident of ill-informed advice, in the sports world, comes from New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton.
On Tuesday, Payton responded to the heinous Las Vegas attack by tweeting claims that, since 1968, more Americans have been killed by guns than have been killed on all battlefields throughout the whole of the American experience.
Payton tweeted:
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Crazy statistic!! It's time. #CommonSense pic.twitter.com/ve9CJNJx5D
— Sean Payton (@SeanPayton) October 3, 2017
Note how he followed the claim with the hashtag “common sense.” Ironically, if we look at this death claim comparison via common sense we quickly see it is a a facade.
For example, the number of Americans killed on the Civil War battlefield alone was approximately 620,000 and the number killed in World II was 418,000. From those two wars alone we are already at 1,038,000. Add the approximate 115,000 from WWI, the 35,000 from Korea, and the 58,000 from Vietnam and we are at 1,246,000 without even considering the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Iraq, and others.
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LOL. I even pictured those turtles from the ads some years ago.
Is murder considered an accident? I don’t think your chart captures those.
Hey Peyton, did the Saint medical staff ever find the 1000’s of Vicodin tabs that went missing under your watch? We need drug control, not gun control.
One would think the left, at some point, would finally get tired of being wrong all the time but nope; they just keep on spewing.
More people are killed by abortion than anything else. 4,000 a day!
I should have said nearly 4,000 a day. Actual number is around 3700.
There were more than 100 million killed just in WWII, by guns and other means. At 25 thousand deaths by gun in the US a year it would take 4000 years to equal that target.
Abortion is by far the most popular form of homicide in the US. 50 million to date and counting.
“... more than 100 million killed in WWII ...”
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I don’t think so.
Homicide by abortion is a perfect crime, protected by court edict.
We should listen to what the Saints say is good for America, especially considering the patriotism they showed in London.
You might have an error in your figure. On a world wide scale, the last estimate I saw of deaths caused by WWII was about 50 million. In 1940 the estimated population of the United States was 132 million. Since we are writing about deaths in the United States, The United States could not have lost 100 million killed in WWII.
National WWII statistics from https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war
Worldwide Casualties*
Battle Deaths 15,000,000
Battle Wounded 25,000,000
Civilian Deaths 45,000,000
*Worldwide casualty estimates vary widely in several sources. The number of civilian deaths in China alone might well be more than 50,000,000.
My claim is for TOTAL deaths in WWII and stands, reasonably, at 100 million.
OK
You go ahead on and keep counting until you finally get to your “100 million” figure.
(Oh, and, by the way, not to mention,
the article was talking about “American deaths”)
If you find yourself in a hole you should probably quit digging.
If you are wrong, never admit it.
NFL really doesn’t want its former fans/customers back. Amazing.
BOYCOTT THE NFL!!!!!
The only reason to be near RayJay was to go to a Bucs games. Now, I wouldn't cross the street to see the Bucs, or any NFL team! Nor, are they on our TV's.
BOYCOTT THE NFL!
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