03-20-2018, 02:06 PM
"What about b) Deaths attributed to school shootings since we started counting (some 200 years ago), do not even total 500?"
Apologies, I hardly ever post in threads about guns, but I find the comment above very disturbing. It reminds me of those that won't vaccinate their kids. Collateral damage is just fine because an irrational belief supersedes the safety of other children.
All - just a request, but when you quote numbers or stats, please cite your sources and more, let everyone know if you are talking about a rate or total numbers otherwise it's meaningless. Some have made claims that are so unbelievable and probably nonsense and it really is the domain of kooks who claim things but don't provide evidence or say look it up yourself. I see it in the teacher thread as well.
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/pmo/en...aloney.pdf
Doubt I'll post in the thread again, but from the very first thing in, ahem, RWR's post:
"A fun map. http://demographicdata.org/facts-and-fig...tatistics/":
"With 88.8 guns per 100 residents, US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world. Based on 2014 data, whilst the US houses 4.6% of the world’s population, the nation has around 35-50% of civilian-owned guns worldwide. Furthermore, the US has the highest gun-related death rate among the advanced countries. Recent 2014 survey completed by the Pew Research Center highlighted about a third of all US citizens with children under 18 years old at home have a gun in their household. This includes 34% of families with children younger than 12 years old."
There has to be a time when people need to stop and wonder why the US is like this - it is unique to a so-called 1st-world country.
Apologies, I hardly ever post in threads about guns, but I find the comment above very disturbing. It reminds me of those that won't vaccinate their kids. Collateral damage is just fine because an irrational belief supersedes the safety of other children.
All - just a request, but when you quote numbers or stats, please cite your sources and more, let everyone know if you are talking about a rate or total numbers otherwise it's meaningless. Some have made claims that are so unbelievable and probably nonsense and it really is the domain of kooks who claim things but don't provide evidence or say look it up yourself. I see it in the teacher thread as well.
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/pmo/en...aloney.pdf
Doubt I'll post in the thread again, but from the very first thing in, ahem, RWR's post:
"A fun map. http://demographicdata.org/facts-and-fig...tatistics/":
"With 88.8 guns per 100 residents, US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world. Based on 2014 data, whilst the US houses 4.6% of the world’s population, the nation has around 35-50% of civilian-owned guns worldwide. Furthermore, the US has the highest gun-related death rate among the advanced countries. Recent 2014 survey completed by the Pew Research Center highlighted about a third of all US citizens with children under 18 years old at home have a gun in their household. This includes 34% of families with children younger than 12 years old."
There has to be a time when people need to stop and wonder why the US is like this - it is unique to a so-called 1st-world country.