Posted on 07/18/2022 7:11:00 AM PDT by MacNaughton
In 2020, the most recent year that data is available, more than 45,000 people died from gun-related injuries, according to the Pew Research Center; That’s a 14% increase from the previous year, 25% increase from five years ago, and a 43% increase from a decade ago.
As numbers climb nationwide, California has a completely opposite trend. For more than 20 years—except for two years during the pandemic—the Golden State’s rate of firearm violence has consistently decreased. California has one of the lowest firearm mortality rates in the country. Its residents are less likely to die from a gunshot than almost anywhere else in the country, and are 25% less likely to die in a mass shooting.
California’s present situation is a sharp contrast to the late 80s and early 90s when the state experienced of gun deaths. Garen J. Wintemute, an emergency room physician and firearm violence researcher at the University of California, Davis, credits California’s success in reducing firearm violations to legislation that the state has passed over the years. California disrupted the manufacturing of cheap guns within the state, closed private sales loopholes, and restricted gun ownership to those convicted of a violent misdemeanor crime.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Studies show that suicides account for more than half of U.S. gun deaths; and not to mention the casualties caused by mass shootings in schools, churches, supermarkets, and other public places. Recently, California also introduced a law that allows gun violence victims to sue gun manufacturers for the damages their products cause.
“Violence is a very complex health and social problem. There is no easy fix… the one right thing to do is a lot of things at the same time,” Wintemute says. “So that if one intervention doesn’t stop a particular sort of case, maybe another one will. To do one thing in a complex system is to simply allow that system to adapt and continue to produce what it’s going to produce.”
Hate posting anything from yahoo!, but need to keep up with the left's narrative on gun violence/ crime wave.
5/31/2022 - ““New Shooter New Shooter New Shooter!””
If we look at the mass shooting big picture, what we see is a machine with many moving parts. There’s no universal point of failure, just different flaws that interact with other flaws to cause a breakdown. … Maybe we should stop arguing about the ‘whys,’ because while they all may be to some degree valid, none is a magic bullet.
(1) Guns: The favored “why” among leftists. If only we had stricter, European-style gun laws, these things wouldn’t keep happening!
(2) Broken families: With so much divorce and single parenthood, what else do you expect but mass shootings?
(3) Untreated mental illness: If only we could lock up the loons, we’d be safe.
(4) Overtreated mental illness: Thanks to Big Pharma, parents warp their kids’ minds with unnecessary meds.
(5) Media: Violent vidja games! Violent movies! 4Chan! And the evening news, which glorifies shooters and creates copycats.
(6) Fail male: “Society” is failing our boys. Our villages no longer raise up men!
(7) Failed safeguards: Schools unguarded, tips unheeded. This is the one to focus on, because it dispenses with the “whys.” It cuts through the debate. Whatever the “why,” just stop it from happening. Iron Dome doesn’t care why a missile was fired. Armed professionals on campus and tips to law enforcement are not panaceas, but they’re the intelligent response of a society dealing with a phenomenon with no single cause (and after Covid, leftists have totally lost the right to say “we can’t terrorize schoolchildren just to keep them safe”). Still, armed guards and law enforcement tip lines don’t work when the armed professionals bumble like the Keystone Cops and the FBI puts shooting threats on the back burner as it devotes its resources to politicized witch hunts.
That last statement was made 7 weeks before Texas determined that 350+ LEOs responded to the Robb Elementary Shcool mass shooting in Uvalde.
The article also doesn’t mention that CA consolidates shooting incidents or simply no longer reports them.
A friend’s stepson lives in SoCal. He recently caught two 9 mm slugs, and opened fire on a car with his AR. No fatalities, no arrests.
Garen J. Wintemute is one of the leaders of the enemy. He writes many papers in “esteemed” journals, each of which has deviously devised experimental design that is carefully crafted to put firearms and/or defensive rights in the worst light possible. Consistently, article after article. He is actively working to discredit firearms rights.
The answer for California, since the President says the Constitution is not absolute, is to revoke their statehood and return them to territorial status, allowing Trump in his second term to appoint their new governor.
Lets see California’s firearms ownership rates among its citizens.
Perhaps there are “many states who’s rate of ownership is higher than CA’s, but I simply do not believe CA’s rate of firearm ownership is “substantially lower” than most states.
And probably no report either. But hey, the goobermint stats say shootings are down in LA... Never mind those media reports to the contrary.
We have heard about California corrections releasing violent offenders and San Francisco and Los Angeles having a “no prosecute” policy and giving criminals free reign. Now they’re saying crime is down? Gotta be skeptical about their conclusions. Sounds like propaganda.
An acquaintance recently told me about a rel in Cali, LEO, who talks of murders being classified as suicides and other deceitful tactics, so as to keep the murder rate reporting lower than actual.
This is, of course, hearsay. I have no actual proof.
Should congress look into this?
A thorough investigation, including interviews w cops and retired cops, might just reveal an widespread, and nationwide con job.
Yahoo -read no further
Also known as...the last 2 years.
Time via yahoo......I’ll wait for another source.
A recent shooting in Sacramento was done by a perp with a Glock handgun modified to shoot full automatic using just a small cheap plastic piece.
Sin is a very complex health and social problem. There is a Savior named Jesus who will fix it.
Also, the tax laws in CA mean no one has anything worth stealing anymore.
Which is to say, nearly infinitesimal, and far below what is reachable by gun control.
California is the largest gun market in the USA. Sure, they've banned a lot of items and made life difficult for gun owners, but people are still buying them hand over fist in the (formerly) Golden State.
One of the few positive things I can say about my state these days is that it was too important to have statehood delayed by being a territory before statehood. That’s why the state seal has Minerva aka Athena on it. Athena sprang full grown from the head of Zeus, just so CA sprang directly to statehood
You left out the growing problems of drug abuse, which in turn is rooted in the legalization, and greater social acceptance, of dangerous and addictive psychoactive drugs.
Both the Uvalde shooter and the Highland Park shooter fall into this category. And it’s not just the psychoactive effects of the drugs themselves. It’s also the fact that they might have been otherwise busted for drug possession, and thereby prohibited from legally purchasing a firearm.
No, NOTHING California does is a model for the nation.
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