Posted on 10/04/2017 8:17:18 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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.
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.
And it is important to remember is the the military deaths are combat deaths. If we add in non-combat related military deaths the numbers would surge. Yet the figures Payton tweeted for gun deaths are not limited to gun crime–i.e., gun homicides. Instead, they include firearms-related suicides as well. The source for Payton’s tweet is the New York Times and the NYT’s inclusion of suicides allows them to swell gun death figures by 63 to 66 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Hey Payton, You still stealing the Vicodin from the locker room medicine cabinet?
Why don’t we see how many of those nice gentlemen who play for the NO Saints own/carry firearms?
They would all tell Coach Payton to go climb a tree, as well they should.
I knew Adrian Peterson never should have signed with them. Playing Canadian is a better option.
You just can’t make this stuff up, can you?
now we know why the saints suck
Just another loser trying to be relevant. NOT
Interesting hie the Payton geniuses never mention that
Is his point we need more wars?
Breitbart is too stupid to consult the VA:
https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/factsheets/fs_americas_wars.pdf
There were more deaths by disease in the Civil War than from combat, but Breitbart uses the 620k overall figure.
The Saints? From New Orleans? The Sportsmans Paradise? Does this moron know who his fan base is?
Let’s deal in FACTS. There are 33,000 gun deaths in America every year (give or take). 2/3 (66%) of these deaths are suicides. That is a fact.
#2 on the “hit” parade...1 in 5 — were young men aged 15 to 34, killed in homicides. These men were most likely to die at the hands of other young men, often related to gang loyalties or other street violence.
Finally, the third largest group...1,700 women murdered per year, usually as the result of domestic violence.
If we are entertaining new policies...let’s focus on older white males susceptible to suicide...restraining orders on abusive men and a crackdown on gangs.
Your homicides potentially drop from 33,000 to several thousand or less.
I wish he would say that in chicago southside before the game with da bears....
Final assessment...not yet suitable for leadership role..
BS stats.
Not to preach but unrealistic and unchecked emotions more often than not lead to huge retaliatory miscalculations commonly resulting in increased and wide spread damage beyond what initially triggered the emotion. This is THE typical liberal reactions to all things they hate. Liberals are not smarter than the rest of us but demonstrably they have been fooled into believing they somehow will be immune from the collateral damage wrought by their own carnage against this country. Lessons aren’t cheap.
Worldwide political correctness kills a lot more!
Payton should stick to something he’s good at, like paying bounties to his players who purposely injure players on opposing teams.
[Uh, math is most definitely not a friend of this idiot.]
Apparently facts aren’t either.
He comes off as smart as Terry Bradshaw of late.
The EEEEvil NRA publishes these stats in their magazine. I recall seeing a figure of around 2 million incidents per year in America where armed citizens protect their families and property.
The NFL can’t even measure the amount of air in a football.
But, you can go to Britney Spears for Physics:
http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
Britney Spears’ Guide to Semiconductor Physics
Next he’ll be saying that every high school’s football players become NFL stars.
[You just can’t make this stuff up, can you?]
I’ll submit he also thinks:
a) Obama is a smart man who had America’s best interests at heart
and
b) Hillary is the most honest politician out there.
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