American's gun problem and why? For real. NOT because I wanna just whine...
So, I saw this shared on my Facebook newsfeed last night by a friend. It makes me sing, in sarcasm...
Ohhhh Caaaanadaaa....da da da da da daahhhhh!
Can you hear the melody? That's me trying to remember the words to Canada's song.
Below was my response to her post....
America has a population 10 times that of Canada. There are plenty of mass shootings in Canada, and America has about 10 times as many mass shootings as Canada, in proportion to the population. Canada also has a gun problem.
Why does the media ONLY focus on America?
Let's not ignore the many hundreds of gun deaths in South America, Brazil and Mexico every day. Double that of the USA. Why is everyone focusing on Americas 'gun problem' when Brazil has almost half the population of America yet more annual gun deaths? Where is the outcry for protecting Mexican children? Brazilian children?
I am so confused by how many of my friends are refusing to look at the bigger picture and blindingly follow the media's narrow path on this topic. When so many of us have open minds ignoring our governments and the mass media about vaccines, education and healthcare yet hang onto the media's mutilated data and biased opinions on guns. Youtube is censoring videos every minute that dare to suggest Parkland's child interviews were staged. The media so desperately trying act like experts on gun control using the tears of the victims to try and manipulate our minds and our votes.
Do you know how hard it is to find the actual statistic for the number of gun deaths per year in America? I couldn't actually find a written figure. Because the printed figure is 10.5 deaths per 100,000. Which sounds a lot worse than 0.01% of Americans die by guns, which is 35,000 per year (population of America 355,000,000).
In Brazil, with a population of 200,000,000, there were 40,000 gun deaths in 2017 (0.02% of the population.) Mexico gun deaths 2017 - 24 per 100,000 people, more than double that of USA. Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador, Jamaica all have massive gun deaths annually, 2 to 3 times that of USA. Very little and buried media coverage.
Ever heard of Swaziland's gun problem? Nearly 4 times worse than USA.
Now here is something very interesting that flips these statistics on their head. 60% of all gun deaths in the USA are suicides. Which means that 6 out of every 10.5 of those gun deaths in the USA are not violent homicides or accidental. However, less than 5% of all gun deaths in all the other countries mentioned are suicides, which means that nearly 95% of all the gun deaths in the other countries are violent, purposeful and actually reflect the safety of the country. If you were to remove the suicides from the gun death totals in America, there would be 4 people per 100,000, just 0,5 people per 100,000 higher than Finland. (See what I did there, I didn't remove the statistic for suicides for Finland to make my point) That's exactly what the media does to ensure maximum effect and anger by the public. (Finland has a very high % of suicides per gun deaths)
I'm just trying to put things into perspective. I don't disagree that there is a problem with gun deaths in America, but more gun laws on top of more gun laws will not solve America's gun death problem. The one common denominator that I see from all the countries where gun death homicide rates are so high is a drug problem. Where there are gun deaths, there are drug problems. That is a fact. The majority of gun deaths including suicides are drug related, either involving illegal or prescription drugs. In my opinion, the illegal and prescription drug problem in America exacerbates the gun death problem, both homicides and suicides. The relationship has been proven in multiple studies.
Another common denominator, private health care in a system where the pharmaceutical companies have total control monopolising the market and forcing drug prices to skyrocket for maximum profit for both the manufacturers and the doctors who prescribe the never ending lists of unnecessary medications. Most mass shootings in the USA with the highest death toll involve shooters who were taking prescription medication for mental health diseases.
The situation is far more complex than the media would dare to dig, more complex than the average person's brain can handle and so complex that the government don't have a shitty clue what to do about it. So why on earth would we ask them to make more gun laws when they do such a terrible job enforcing the gun laws, mental health provisions and health care premiums that are already in place?
Her reply...
Guns are bad. We all need to stop killing each other. If we didn't have guns or weapons then the world would be a singing rainbow of love and joy, peace at last forever more. Skipping fields of sunshine and bunny rabbits nibbling on clover blossoms while children giggle on the hillside.
Or something along those lines.
Banning guns doesn't solve the real problem of bad people in this world.
Agreed. Humans have always killed each other. Now has never been a safer time to be alive.
BINGO! and that's coming from a Canadian.
people need to comprehend what a "false flag" operation is... then they would comprehend why there are so many "gun deaths" in the US. There is an agenda at play here. They (
THEY) want to take the guns away from the american population. The question people need to ask is why.... and the answer has nothing to do withschool shootingsd
My favourite interview is the darker skinned girl with with curly black afro hair. Wow. Her entire interview was prompted by the new casters and her attempt to cry for her dead friend, really, no Oscars there. And how the bookshelf and the books deterred bullets, and apparently she sustained bullet wounds, yet stands there talking about her experience with hands flapping explaining every detail like an Italian grandmother explains how to make pasta. Did you see her gun hand, pointed fingers 'pop pop'. Who does that? Little gangster.
Here is the full interview, watch the beginning...
@daniarnold check this out. https://steemit.com/news/@clarityofsignal/extensive-post-reveals-anomalies-and-child-actors-involved-with-parkland-school-shooting-in-florida-on-february-14-2018 I'm going to go through it now.
Fantastic Post! Not to mention the United States is the largest exporter of weapons to the "third world." Children are being killed every day in targeted countries with weapons provided by the USA. In Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan.... The US talks out of both sides of its mouth. The Left wants to ban guns at home, and speaks altruistically about human life but then supports Obama and his thousands of drone strikes on numerous countries that kill children. They support Hillary, who never met a war or a regime change she didn't like. The Right is no better. The gun violence in America is the symptom of a very sick society, and the political class' solution is to break the thermometer to cure the fever.
And never forget, the elites, the politicians and celebrities, they will always be protected by men with guns. They want to ban your guns, not their guns.
Exactly, the situation is so complex. Your input brings a whole other dimension to the topic. Thank you.
Great post,thank you for digging up this information!My opinion as always: if you are so afraid of guns America,then stop producing and selling them everywhere!(but you won't do that right?)
If guns didn't exist, man would create another method of killing and controlling. It's human nature. Men have been killing each other since the beginning of time. What makes anyone think that taking away one weapon it won't be replaced by another?
The UK has a serious stabbing epidemic.Should they take kitchen knives away?Of course not! Like you say: if someone wants to kill,they will find their way.It's not a gun problem.