Fake News On Mass Shootings
- Thread starter Ponca Dan
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Snopes? Bwaaahahahahahahahaha!
People with logical brains knew the narrative about US gun violence vs the world was always bullcrap.
Just a quick example on how its difficult to compare stuff like this.........My last couple years stationed at RAF Lakenheath , England, I was in charge of the Wings Deficiency Analysis section, the Wing Commander was trying to get authorization to build more housing on base. His justification was that the violent crime rate in the UK was much higher than in the US so it would be safer to have families living on base . He commissioned us to do a study on this, what we found was very interesting. Looking at the reported statistics the rate was significantly higher but........when looking at what each country reported as a violent crime it became very apparent why the rate was higher in the UK........at the time, a violent crime in the US was Murder, forcible rape and Aggravated assault, those were the only crimes considered violent. In the UK, a violent crime is Murder, any rape, any assault and any drug offense. When we applied the same US criteria to UK crime statistics the UK violent crime rate was less than half that of the US ( if I remember correctly it was 38%) needless to say, he didn't like our findings.
Every time I'm in Australia the news is replete with shootings, murders, drug busts and gang violence......bending the stats to fit the wider narrative is as old as the oldest profession. What stinks is if people represented their findings without all the hyperbole of an agenda more people would take stock.
I thought Australia was a gun free zone which the gun grabbers say we need to emulate.
Giant load of crapola! If you'll go back and look at the stacks of weapons surrendered many of them were obsolete. But what this does illustrate is that when you outlaw guns for law abiding citizens, guess who ends up owning guns....well yes of course the dam criminals. They have a huge gang and drug problem in Australia and it goes hand in hand with gun violence if you don't get the criminals off the street.
I heard one of the PM's (think from NT talking about relaxing the gun ownership laws in the future because it really has been a failure in its intended purpose. But the LaLa land liberals think if you get rid of all guns, there won't be any gun violence.....not an ounce of brain matter between the whole dam lot of them.
If people think the black market in drugs is bad they haven't seen anything if guns are confiscated. The black market for guns will not be shotguns are semi-automatics. It will be fully auto AK's and AR's.
"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of America, cannot succeed with any lesser effort." -- President John F. Kennedy.
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