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

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

For me, the first was almost sixty years ago.

lax wrote:

I have lived a life where I have stayed out of trouble. Been a total straight arrow. Yet, I knew two friends who took their lives with readily available guns. F8ck the right and their fetish.

A straight arrow is more deadly. Why did this expression start being used?

My brother killed himself with a shotgun blast under the chin. It wasn't the shotgun's fault It was his tragic childhood that groomed him for pure misery with no way of thinking of escape. I guess he didn't want to relive my dad's miserable alcoholic life. If we had changed places, my brother and I , would i have killed myself, I don't know, but with a different childhood we would be using the shotgun for something else if we did use it.

Also my small city was was once number one for violent crimes for cities of the same size in the United States during my high school years. If you live somewhere like that, leave at all costs.

My 14 yo friend from baseball was called over to a car and asked what street he lived on. Really nice kid,

When he tried to turn and run he was shot in the back and killed. In a span of just 4 years i knew people, or family members of people, who suffered other kinds of horrible death and disfiguration and rape at the hands of gang bangers and perverts on drugs.

I also knew some of the perpetrators. who got caught.

Ummm you are missing a vital piece of information in your headline, which is the percentage or amount of americans that will know someone who have died of gun violence (which is certainly very few, probably in the range of 0.01-0.1% of Americans, considering how few actually are killed by guns. What if the headline was "Canadians will know someone who dies of a gun" which is technically true. The reality is, most gun violence, and crime for that matter, is concentrated in poor, urban neighborhoods and cities. 70% of all murders in the US are concentrated in just 5% of US counties, and 54% of all counties have ZERO murders/year. The problem is not the US as a whole, it's a problem of poor, often urban, areas and culture.

Greg, you're being used for ad revenue by Big Media who will report outlandish, fear mongering stories to get gullible people like you to watch and earn them ad revenue, influence your voting behavior and keep their corporate shareholders in power.

Let it Rupp wrote:

Greg, you're being used for ad revenue by Big Media who will report outlandish, fear mongering stories to get gullible people like you to watch and earn them ad revenue, influence your voting behavior and keep their corporate shareholders in power.

It's not gullible to read a statement and believe in it's validity. It's naive make such an assumption as you did.

Do you know what the word naive means?