“That feeling when institutions break down, I think, played a role in contributing to the major surge of gun sales and the rise in violence. When you feel like no one is in charge, that’s a recipe for violence to emerge.”
“That feeling when institutions break down, I think, played a role in contributing to the major surge of gun sales and the rise in violence. When you feel like no one is in charge, that’s a recipe for violence to emerge.”
This is an easy question to answer, just visit any rural area of the USA. Everyone already has a gun in rural USA, and it’s fine. Gun violence is rare and not normally anything to worry about. We are all in far more danger from car accidents, bathtub accidents, other similar accidents, and unhealthy diet-related illnesses like heart disease and cancer. Deaths by homicide using a firearm are not even in the to 10 causes of death in the USA.
It is not fine.
In the 2000s, I used to be able to visit my grandparents. Neighbors were friendly. There was racism, like “Oh who is that colored person”, but it could go either way.
Today, those same neighbors default to shooting on sight. Every non-local to that small town is a threat. Fox News brain has created a atmosphere that everyone is out to get each other.
My family drove with out of state plates to visit grandparents and a sheriff pulled us over, gave us a lecture about how if we’re looking to cause any problems, he’ll be the last person we want to mess with. I had my kids in the car. Wtf.
So no, rural America is not fine. Especially if you’re a person of color.
Accounting for suicides however paints a bleaker picture
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Not that there wouldn’t be higher rates in rural areas which are generally worse off economically regardless but the ease of access to a weapon also plays a role
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The British Coal Gas Study ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC478945/ ) showed that removing a common means of suicide lowered the total suicide rate. This is consistent with subjective reports from survivors of suicide attempts who report that the urge to act was momentary.
The way that Americans act like life is cheap and there’s an acceptable amount of death is weird to me. Here’s some data to counter your point.
Ya, those are crisis actors. They died to create a false statistics. The only thing I care about and matters is me. I’m safe, so fuck em’.
I am a responsible gun owner… till I ain’t. But then the responsible gun owners are going to dig deep into my history to cherry pick how it was obvious 10 years ago so they can keep flaunting their guns without a care in the sun. Rinse and repeat.
/yeehaw
None of what you said is related to what I said. I never acted like life is cheap or that there is an acceptable amount of deaths. I simply produced some facts for perspective.
The fact is that life is very safe in the USA, regardless of what you or anyone thinks about it, and gun violence is very rare overall. 99.99999% of Americans are never affected by gun violence, so you’ll have to excuse me for not being worried about it.
Declining average life expectancy and gun deaths becoming the leading cause of death for teens and children suggest that your statement about life being safe is very inaccurate. Let’s not even get into the rates of death due to cars, another part of daily American life that is intrinsically unsafe.
OK then you can keep worrying about it but I will not. Have fun with that.
No, you threw some misinformation to justify the point you do not have
Literally the #1 cause of death for youth in Murica, but sure NoBOdy iS affEctEd
Yeah, what about it? Those are perfectly cromulent things that I said. Both are independently true and compatible with each other.
34 Americans are affected by gun violence?
Dude, you blow through that budget with one particularly quiet afternoon in Detroit.
If things are stable at the current rate, 2.4% of Americans get killed or hospitalized by gunshots in their lifetime. Those affected includes everyone related to those people as well as everyone who is injured but not hospitalized and everyone who is merely physically coerced or intimidated by guns. And honestly it should even include those who are treated roughly by cops because those cops have to be emotionally and functionally ready to handle gun violence at all times, those who must severely change their lives to avoid the risk of gun violence, and those who live in justified fear without being directly personally affected.
A more realistic estimate would be that 75% of Americans are not deeply traumatized by gun violence, 30% of Americans don’t suffer actively because of gun violence, and 1% of Americans don’t spend their lives afraid of gun violence (including the toxic conservative bravado as pretty transparent “making yourself look intimidating to scare off the threat” behavior).
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