28-05-2022, 03:47 PM
Different countries handle things in different ways. Gun related killings in the USA in 2020 were at 79%, Canada at 37%, UK at 4% & Oz at 13%.
Unless - heaven forfend - a whacko shooter targets a school attended by the children of those supporting their present gun laws, its difficult to see that anything will change in America.
Perhaps they see the right to own a gun as a part of their tradition, & somehow equate that with freedom.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
"How do US gun killings compare with other countries?
In 2020, 43% of the deaths - amounting to 19,384 people - were homicides, according to data from the CDC. The figure represents a 34% increase from 2019, and a 75% increase over the course of the previous decade.
Nearly 53 people are killed each day by a firearm in the US, according to the data.
The data also shows that the vast majority of murders, 79%, were carried out with guns.
That's a significantly larger proportion of homicides than is the case in Canada, Australia, England and Wales, and many other countries."
And after a mass shooting, Canada changed its gun laws
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/how...-ban-ar15/
"MONTREAL—Less than two weeks after a gunman went on a rampage in Canada’s eastern province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people in the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s modern history, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a long-awaited announcement: His government would ban “assault-style” firearms in Canada—a demand gun control advocates had spent decades pushing for.
On May 1, Trudeau enacted new regulations to ban the use, sale, and import of more than 1,500 models of firearms and their components. “Canadians deserve more than thoughts and prayers,” Trudeau said, echoing the fatalistic refrain of many U.S. politicians after every mass shooting.
“These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada.”
Unless - heaven forfend - a whacko shooter targets a school attended by the children of those supporting their present gun laws, its difficult to see that anything will change in America.
Perhaps they see the right to own a gun as a part of their tradition, & somehow equate that with freedom.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
"How do US gun killings compare with other countries?
In 2020, 43% of the deaths - amounting to 19,384 people - were homicides, according to data from the CDC. The figure represents a 34% increase from 2019, and a 75% increase over the course of the previous decade.
Nearly 53 people are killed each day by a firearm in the US, according to the data.
The data also shows that the vast majority of murders, 79%, were carried out with guns.
That's a significantly larger proportion of homicides than is the case in Canada, Australia, England and Wales, and many other countries."
And after a mass shooting, Canada changed its gun laws
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/how...-ban-ar15/
"MONTREAL—Less than two weeks after a gunman went on a rampage in Canada’s eastern province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people in the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s modern history, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a long-awaited announcement: His government would ban “assault-style” firearms in Canada—a demand gun control advocates had spent decades pushing for.
On May 1, Trudeau enacted new regulations to ban the use, sale, and import of more than 1,500 models of firearms and their components. “Canadians deserve more than thoughts and prayers,” Trudeau said, echoing the fatalistic refrain of many U.S. politicians after every mass shooting.
“These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada.”
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)