Yet Another “Senseless” Shooting At A School
Posted: October 2, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Gun violence, United States 2 Comments“‘No Way to Prevent This’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” — The Onion
“We spent over a trillion dollars, and passed countless laws, and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil, and rightfully so. And yet we have a Congress that explicitly blocks us from even collecting data on how we could potentially reduce gun deaths. How can that be?” — President Obama
Deaths from Terrorism vs. Gun Homicides:
2001 — 2,689 vs.11,348 2002 — 25 vs.11,829 2003 — 35 vs.11,920 2004 — 74 vs.11,624
2005 — 56 vs.12,352 2006 — 28 vs.12,791 2007 — 19 vs.12,632 2008 — 33 vs.12,179
2009 — 9 vs.11, 493 2010 — 15 vs.11,078 2011 — 17 vs.11,101
(Source: Vox.com using available State and Justice Department figures. Does not include suicides by guns.)
Tom
Into The Fray 
And yet Obama refuses to introduce legislation to address this…
In the wake of this report, I read an article that said the US has the THIRD HIGHEST rate of gun deaths in the world. Wow…sounds bad. But it went on to say that if the gun murders of Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans and Washington, DC are taken out of the mix, the US falls to 4th from the bottom. Sounds to me like our problem is largely an “inner city” problem. Who out there can argue differently?