People Kill People

 It Really Is People; Not Guns

The two articles following this blog do not parallel, but both note that gun deaths by suicide are higher than gun deaths by murder.  I chose these articles from dozens as they read objective and not inflammatory.  The number of suicides by gun does matter when we apply the feminist notion with respect to abortion, “my body; my choice.” While many states outlaw suicide (who are they going to prosecute if the "perp" is successful); suicide is a personal decision and I, and many others support it. So, remove it from the statistics on gun deaths, rendering about 25,000 gun deaths by murder.

What these tables do not show is murder in the ghettos or other high murder rate areas usually race-on-same-race murders.  This matters because in spite of the pie-in-the-sky emotions about gun control, guns will ALWAYS be available to gangsters, typically black or Hispanic, in the ghettos.  When the ghetto numbers are shown as larger, according to left-leaning articles on the web, the reason, nearly without exception, is that this country does not invest enough in those areas.  Absent from the misinformation shouted by the Marxists, is that inner-city schools are cruel, parents do not require their kids to go to school, gang members don’t care how much investment is made in their communities and the gangsters will never be separated from their guns. Implied, always, is that this country does not care about the “impoverished.”

The above paragraphs are two pieces of gun statistics as the two more credible, non-inflammatory articles show.  I won’t regurgitate the articles here but over half of gun deaths are suicide; auto deaths far outnumber deaths that are NOT related to suicide; (ever hear the leftists declare that the government should confiscate automobiles?).  The difference between automobile deaths and gun deaths is intent.  Gun deaths are deliberate; automobile deaths are rarely.  The bottom line is more people die in auto deaths than do in deliberate gun deaths; each human lost is a human lost so ignoring automobile deaths in the arguments of the nanny state is incomplete.

When U.S. gun deaths are compared to those in other countries (not a subject of these articles but the Marxist media is all too happy to dwell on that comparison) is that we have the 2nd Amendment.  Of course gun deaths in countries that do not allow private ownership of guns is going to be less. That comparison, borrowing a cliche, is "apples to oranges." Our 2nd Amendment (happily) makes it much more difficult for the Marxists to disarm the citizenry.  Remember that Stalin and Hitler both disarmed the population.  That the Marxists cannot here is frustrating to them, but a fact of life, to the true luck of our population. A ignored fact is the Marxists don't have to own guns; they simply cannot stop people who choose to own them  I have no solution for murder but I have a few ideas:  any crime committed with a gun guarantees a hefty minimum sentence and those crimes are prosecuted by the Feds so Marxist governors cannot pardon the murderer.  If we need more prisons build them.  Statistics declaring the U.S. has more people incarcerated than other countries means nothing to me.  We do not owe our standards to those of other countries.  We have truly horrible people in this country.  I believe Norway, per capita, has fewer. Hey! Just a wild guess! Give less to Ukraine and start building prisons.  Guns really are not the problem in our country; people who have never learned the word “no” are the problem.

It is cruelly ironic that Biden and his merry band of Marxists want to disarm us (of course the rhetoric is about “assault rifles” which are responsible for only three percent of gun deaths, but the intent is total disarmament of the population, one step at a time).  The Marxists replace police with social workers, under-fund the police in any case and hold each officer accountable to the degree they can, or at least harass the officer who is involved in a shooting.  The Marxists decriminalize crimes that then punish the public (stores closing because of excessive crime).  

I will not turn in my guns.  That is my line in the sand.  Want me to sit at a negotiating table to discuss the abundance of handguns (unlikely) we will talk about the above:  we will make gun crimes exceptionally painful for the criminal (again Federal crimes so Marxists governors cannot pardon the criminals); we will increase police, dampen down the inflammatory publicizing of each officer-involved shooting and enforce (or outlaw as a government matter) all lesser crimes, allowing the victim to defend his property and person himself, with guns as s/he deems "reasonably necessary."

A note about mass shootings. I have absolutely no answer. Again, speaking of cars, on occasion a drunk neanderthal will drive the wrong side of the road and kill people. There is no way to avoid that. Well, wait! We could banish all alcohol (for the second time). Mass shootings are often copycats and are responsible for approximately 5% of gun deaths. The most remote possibility might be schools adding this phenomenon to studies and - gasp - show and discuss the grotesque results.

Until then, good luck toward your futile cause, Joe, Chuck, Kathy (Hochul), AOC et al.

What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S. | Pew Research Center

US gun deaths (usafacts.org)