Really? Starting with my Mother and her eleven siblings there is quite an extended family just on that side. Add to it my Dad’s family from the rough side of the Kansas City area that is also quite large.
I don’t know of a single person in that group of well over a hundred who has ever been the victim of gunshot. That number includes several that have seen front line combat since WWII including my son. NO REMFs in the lot.
I’m throwing down the BS flag on this one.
Does anyone ever sense check this crap let alone fact check it? What codswallop!
So 60 million people in the US had a family member killed by a gun?? (20% x 300 million people). What an utter crock of nonsense.
Further, has AI taken over "guns" so that one in five had a family member killed by a gun? Are guns rising up and killing people?
Sheesh, what a pant load.
I need it broken down by demographics
My father, in declining health, died by self inflicted gunshot wound at age 83.
I don’t know. I’m going to read through article and comments to learn more. I’m pro-2a, so I’m just curious.
How many were shot at while in the military?
Absolute bull$hit that 20% of the population have a family member who was killed by a handgun.
Another study that will be debunked like the bogus race studies that were shown to be complete fraudulent and made headlines this week. They were blasted across headlines when released and cited constantly.. but do you think the fact they were shown to be crap will get wide play ? Of course not, and it won’t matter they served the purpose and provided cover and talking points for years.
45k gun deaths per year, with the majority being suicides... nation of 330 Million people. That’s 0.013% of the population annual dies from a gunshot, and the vast majority are suicides. So you get rid of those and it’s less than 0.0065% of the population are killed by guns every year, that are not suicides.
Yet.. 20% of US families have a member who was killed by a gun? Not a chance in hell.
Another claim that doesn’t pass the smell test.
BS!
The last time any of my close to 30,000 ancestors died from being shot was during the civil war.
My wife’s clan are basically the same. Zero ancestors killed by gun except during the civil war.
Nor I. It is extremely high in the black community. And spreading. Memphis has armed 12 and up. So you know they didn’t get them legally.
I hate having to go into Shelby Co. Gov. Lee just signed a couple of Red Flag laws, not as bad as blue states.
Gov. Bill Lee Calls On Legislature To Pass Red Flag Law, Signs Exec Order Intensifying Gun Background Checks | The Daily Wire
BAN THESE DRUGS TOO. ADD, ADHD,SSRI DRUGS ALL HAVE HOMICIDAL AND SUICIDAL PROPERTIES, AS DO SOME OTHERS, MAYBE IT’S TIME TO REMOVE THEM FROM THE MARKET! DRUGS LIKE ADDERALL, RITALIN, XANAX, LUNESTA, fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), fluvoxamine (Luvox), citalopram (Celexa), escitalopram (Cipralex) and sertraline (Zoloft), AND OTHERS LIKE THEM.
Make the shrinks report the use.
Not sure how far down the family tree they consider when discussing “a relative”.
Just Immediate familY?
Do they count Military Service?
Police?
Uncles and Aunts and 1st-2nd-3rd cousins?
How many generations back?
If you reach out far enough, sure, I have had relatives killed with guns. Our bunch got here nearly 400 years ago, so it was bound to happen.
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