BadMar 4

My little state violence

https://jlai.lu/post/34031779

Show threadSalamenceFuryMar 4

Let’s get some stats, shall we?

Since 1982, in the US, about 1130 people have died from mass shootings.

American police in that same amount of time has killed over 38000 people.

The problem has never been AR-15s, or the lack of background checks, or anything of the sort. It’s always been the pigs. But liberal suburbans enjoy the benefits of the pigs protecting their property while they kill poorer people, so telling them this makes them stare blankly, or they double down and continue to whine about weapons of war, to which I say: If you’re so concerned with weapons of war being in the streets, why does every law banning AR-15s add exemptions to the police?

Show threadteslekova
What about shootings that aren’t mass shootings? Why are you not counting those?
Mar 5 at 6:52amWeb
Show threadpewterMar 5
It’s weird as hell that his comment doesn’t mention that and is upvoted.
Show threadDoomsiderMar 7
Because we have lost more civilians to gun violence than every US soldier in every war ever combined in the last 30 years.
Show threadMirror GiraffeMar 10
While an interesting statistic, it doesn’t really answer the question.
Show threadDoomsiderMar 10

The answer is 1.5 million citizens. That is how much we have lost in the last three decades. The huge amount is the reason we do not talk about it.

Any normal country that was losing the equivalent of a war in population loss every year would be a huge issue. It would be a crisis.

But it is not, we won’t talk about it. Congress passed laws so we can’t study it. It is taboo because there is something much more important than this huge loss of life.