'Americans will know someone who dies from a gun in their lifetime'

Fake news media is a big problem. Their narrative manipilation is evil and perverts the minds of children and innocent civilians. There are many riots occurring right now due to a police officer murder but the fake news madia is ignoring that and trying to control the narrative. We need to rebel against the fake news media and the selfish, evil government.

Many American people who hang out with the right people, and stay out of and away from trouble will not ever know anyone who died from (non military related/suicide) gunfire. I don’t know anyone who has nor do I know anyone who knows someone who has.

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^"""""""" wrote:

Fake news media is a big problem. Their narrative manipilation is evil and perverts the minds of children and innocent civilians. There are many riots occurring right now due to a police officer murder but the fake news madia is ignoring that and trying to control the narrative. We need to rebel against the fake news media and the selfish, evil government.

Russians come over the North Pole and make a land grab in the Canadian far north ?

I am a Canadian and I do not worry. My country spends practically nothing on national defense. The Americans will go to the Canadian far north (and bring their guns) and do the fighting and dying for me because Canada is a coddled member of the NATO alliance.

Those American guns sure are convenient to us Canadians. VIVA NATO !

I doubt it. I did however know someone that:

Died from a road rage stabbing

Died from a drug overdose

Died from being burned alive by drug dealers

Died from heart stopping after too many energy drinks

And many others that died from "natural causes".

I can go years without even seeing a gun except in a policeman's holster. I have never owned a gun. I haven't even held one. None of my friends have guns and I told one friend who was thinking about buying one that if he did so, I wouldn't be coming back to his house. If I had grown up and lived in Kentucky or Texas, I know I couldn't be saying this, but the people I know and hang out with just don't care about guns. And there's virtually no violent crime in this area. I was going to respond to the heading here by saying no, in my lifetime, I've never known anyone who was the victim of gun violence, but then I remembered that way back in the 1970s, a girl I'd gone to school with was murdered in a random highway shooting ... quite possibly by the Zodiac Killer.

two kids in my HS killed themselves with guns, so I knew people even though I don't hang around gun-nuts either

I know one person who died by gun suicide, does that count. I also know someone who stabbed someone to death.

My life is half over, I guess we'll see.

Only yesterday you were celebrating the death of a 13 year old.

Greg wrote:

It wasn't clear in the video if he had gun and it's hard to tell even in the first photo.

It could appear as a lamppost in the background.

I understand the officer wanting to disable someone with gun.

I don't understand cops panicking when they think people are reaching.

Cops have the advantage in these situations most of the time.

Anyways this 13 yr old was up to no good and played with fire.

So good on the cop for taking a thug off the streets.

Poster #313 wrote:

I know one person who died by gun suicide, does that count. I also know someone who stabbed someone to death.

My life is half over, I guess we'll see.

Same for me, 1 person who committed suicide by gun. Does that count?

Boots don't kill dogs but people kill dogs with their boots. Should Canada ban boots Greg?

I am an old man who grew up in the ghetto. I know at least 4 friends who all died from gunfire in Vietnam. I don't personally know anyone who has died from gunfire in the US. I know at least 3 people who have died from drugs and 4 people who have died in motorcycle accidents. Why would any civilized nation allow its citizens to have motorcycles? About 98% of mass shootings have occurred in "gun free" zones. Gun grabbers don't want to hear that piece of data because guns are scary things to them. Crazies will think twice about public shootings if they know there is a high probability someone will shoot back at them as soon as they fire the first shot.

Well, at least you are now listening to the "SCIENCE. " now we are getting somewhere. Good job buddy.

stupid generalizations eh wrote:

.... Crazies will think twice ..... .

That's not how crazy works

Approximately 39,000 people die from guns each year, 60% of which are suicides. So really there are closer to 16,000 deaths by gun each year since the person going to kill themselves with guns will find other ways to yeet themselves. According to the CDC there are between 500,000 and 3 million lives SAVED each year by people using their weapons to protect themselves. I would say that the amount of people saved far outweighs the amount of people killed so keep guns quick and easy to access. Especially in inner cities where gun violence is highest and poor people need to protect themselves from gangs. Since cops are really there only after crimes they are essentially worthless to protecting yourself. Get a gun and learn to protect yourself in case some nut job decides to break into your house.

Canadians will know a number of people that drink themselves to death.

DirtyT wrote:

According to the CDC there are between 500,000 and 3 million lives SAVED each year by people using their weapons to protect themselves.

That is one of the biggest load of crap ever written here.

This is probably true. I lost a family member when I was in 5th grade.

Some people here feel the need to maintain the Wild West imperialistic gun culture for the sake of tradition when they otherwise live a soft and sedentary life in a suburban neighborhood. But they want to put on camo and walk around with a gun once a year.

The American government is a legal monopoly on the use of physical force, accomplished by means of guns.

The America they think the government represents the side of good, and private individuals the side of evil. They want to have an armed, ruthless, autonomous government ruling over a nation of disarmed private individuals, i.e. a dictatorship with no individual rights.

F8ck the left. Every moral American should own at least one handgun, and preferably a military-style assault rifle too.