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b_b  ·  4119 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: So what's the solution for all the US gun problems?

Mass murders always get people talking, but the fact is that we could never have another mass murder in this country and it wouldn't affect the gun violence statistics even slightly. From Wikipedia:

    In 2009, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 66.9% of all homicides in the United States were perpetrated using a firearm. There were 52,447 deliberate and 23,237 accidental non-fatal gunshot injuries in the United States during 2000. The majority of gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides, with 17,352 (55.6%) of the total 31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007 due to suicide, while 12,632 (40.5%) were homicide deaths.

People care about sensationalism, they don't care about gun violence. They just mistake their sensationalist bloodlust for an anti-violence position. 27 or so people were murdered in this incident, but we average 34 gun murders, and 143 intentional gun woundings every single day. If people actually cared about violence they would have this "outrage" every day.