PrintSmith wrote: Misleading graphic Fred, and still out of line. I'm willing to wager that the 0.176 rate of White Males results in a much higher number of offenders than the 0.769 of Male transgender/non-binary, how about you?
Miss the shooters per million note? Of course white males kill more people than transsexuals, there are literally 70 million more white males than the tiny percentage of transsexuals in America currently.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
The church and school did a number of thing right to protect their parishioners, staff, and students yesterday that saved a lot of lives. The doors to the church were locked at the start of Mass, which is why the coward needed to shoot through the windows into the church. Fortunately, the pews in a Catholic Church are usually a thick hardwood, which provided shelter and protection. One child was injured after covering another child with their own body and sustaining a shotgun wound in their back.
About the only other thing that could have been done would be to allow the staff to be armed so they could respond and prevent the coward from being able to fire at will, but I'm guessing since this is Minnesota, and Minneapolis, where Walz is governor, and Frey is the mayor, there are probably laws against guns in sensitive places like schools. I know that Minnesota has a "Permit to Purchase" system for firearms, which means a prospective transferee has to fill out a form and submit it to law enforcement prior to purchasing a firearm, and that any transferor of a firearm must, within 3 days, submit a record of the transfer, including the identification of the transferee, to law enforcement . . . which means our coward passed an enhanced background system to purchase the weapons used in their attack.
Gets back to what I've been saying for years . . . laws are not a deterrent to one who has decided to ignore the law and commit a mass shooting. The laws in Minnesota were followed, the weapons were "legally" purchased in accordance with the laws. Laws don't stop lawless behavior, they are not a deterrent, they provide no safety, no security; they exist as a means of punishment after the fact.
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WHY DOES IT WORK IN OTHER COUNTRIES AND THERE R ABOUT 10 MORE NOT LISTED???
Imagine that . . . when no one has a gun the number of gun related deaths drops. Huh . . . I bet we could cut down on the number of people that die in automobile accidents by banning automobiles too . . . I'd bet the number of deaths associated with samurai swords would drop in Japan if they banned samurai swords in Japan.
What that article doesn't say, what no one will say, is that the murder rate in Australia is the same now as it was prior to the ban. What the article doesn't say, what no one will say, is the number of knife attacks increased, so much so that one Australian State recently launched a machete ban. What that article doesn't say, what no one will say, is that the violent crime rate in Australia is much the same as it was prior to the ban. The only effect of the ban was to lower the number of deaths associated with firearms, and 90% of those were suicides, not homicides.
FredHayek wrote: Those other nations don't have the 2nd Amendment. Why does the Left not launch a national effort to repeal the 2nd Amendment?
Why do they try to nibble instead at our constitutional rights?
yeah, that . . .
The reason they won't try for a repeal of the 2nd Amendment is because they know such an effort would be a dismal failure so they have to find propaganda to use in an effort to convince the populace to disarm themselves at their own request.
This study analyzed whether the controversial 1996 National Firearms Agreement (NFA) in Australian, which comprised a buy-back of longarms and the implementation of tighter gun control legislation, had an impact on the rates of homicide, suicide, and accidental death. Abstract
Overall, there was insufficient evidence to support the argument that simply reducing the number of legally held civilian firearms will reduce either firearm homicides or accidental deaths. Specifically, the results revealed that only firearm suicide was significantly impacted by the more restrictive NFA gun control legislation in Australia. However, the authors warn that other societal factors might have had an impact on changes in firearm suicide rates in Australia. Rates of homicide and accidental death did not significantly decrease following the 1996 NFA legislation. The findings have substantial implications for future gun control policy, not only in Australia, but across the globe.
