US small arms per 100 persons: 120
Portugal small arms per 100 persons: 20
US murder rate: 5.9 per 100,000
Portugal murder rate: 0.8 per 100,000
US mental health care system: for-profit, limited by insurance carriers
Portugal mental health care system: Single-payer public
Smart kid in Portugal gets scholarship to come to US, lives here 20 years, has mental breakdown, kills a professor and shoots up a university.
I don’t think the problem is immigration from Portugal. The problem is here.
@sanguish @Cdespinosa
‘In 2023, a survey found that around 42 percent of households in the U.S. reported owning one or more firearms. This makes the United States the most heavily armed civilian population in the world.’
https://www.statista.com/topics/1287/firearms-in-the-us/#topicOverview
@sanguish Well, prepare to be surprised then. A little MORE than half the US has AT LEAST one, meaning that that half has on average more like 2.5 each.
Take these numbers as rough estimates, though, because a lot depends on who's counting and how. With no national registry, and no complete state registries, no one has complete data. I would personally consider these estimates probably on the low side, because they're based on AVAILABLE information, and we know that there's lot unreported.
@Cdespinosa @sanguish
2016:-
‘While there are an estimated 55 million American gun owners, most own an average of just three firearms, and nearly half own just one or two, according to the survey results.
‘Then there are America’s gun super-owners – an estimated 7.7 million Americans who own between eight and 140 guns.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/19/us-gun-ownership-survey
Most people have zero guns. A lot of people have many guns. (Why? I have no idea.)
@jonhendry If you mean most people of the world, true. If you mean most Americans, that's UNtrue.
The reasons are complicated. I recommend Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine', which explores this in depth. (His conclusion was that mostly, we just have a culture that viscerally prioritizes fear and violence, though that's an over-simplification.)
"Approximately 30-34% of Americans personally own a gun, according to recent polls and surveys. When considering households where at least one person owns a firearm, the percentage is higher, typically around 40-44%. "
You do know what "most" means, right? 56%-70% of Americans not owning guns would fit anyone's definition of "most Americans".
@wesdym @jonhendry His statement is true and correct. Try to be better.
Shitty and condescending when I say it, isn't it?
MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was killed in a shooting at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
@Cdespinosa If Portugal was the problem, it would be much worse. I lived in Providence for years, and knew MANY Portuguese people, many 'right off the boat'. (I even had to learn some Portuguese, to get by. Though to my shame, I've forgotten most of it now.)
It's just a sad tragedy we might never understand, but I'm sure it had nothing to do with where this guy was from.
It's infuriating to me that people are even suggesting that.
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