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For the moment, let's leave religion out of this discussion. I will come back to it later.
All Humans(people), by nature, have the same rights; not dependent on when, where, how, or what gender they are born. These Rights supersede all national affiliations and national laws. These are natural laws. They existed before there were governments and will remain after.
First and foremost, All people own themselves.
All people are entitled to the fruits of their own labor.
All associations, transactions, contracts, agreements, sales, etc. of Any kind, for Any reason must be voluntary. (Non-Aggression Principle or NAP - Aggression/Coercion should not be used to force anyone to do, say, or agree to Anything. The ONLY time aggression may be used is in the defense of the life and rights of yourself (or others) from another party initiating aggression.)
Theft of any kind is wrong.
These represent my ETHICAL stance on way human society should be. I understand that this model of
Pulled from thread on Twitter:
The ACTUAL facts about gun violence in America
1 ) There are about 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms. This number is not disputed.
2 ) U.S. population 328 million as of January 2018.
----->current population is 334,629,680
Do the math: 0.00915% of the population dies from gun related actions each year.
Statistically speaking, this is insignificant. It's not even a rounding error. What is not insignificant, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths:
3 ) 22,938 (76%) are by suicide which can't be prevented by gun laws
4 ) 987 (3%) are by law enforcement, thus not relevant to Gun Control discussion.
5 ) 489 (2%) are accidental
So no, "gun violence" isn't 30,000 annually, but rather 5,577... 0.0017% of the population.
6 ) Still too many? Let's look at location:
298 (5%) - St Louis, MO
327 (6%) - Detroit, MI
328 (6%) - Baltimore, MD
764 (14%) - Chicago, IL
That's over 30% of all gun crime. In just 4 cities.
This leaves 3,856 for everywhere else in America... about 77 deaths per state. Obviously, some states have higher rates than others
Yes, 5,577 is absolutely horrific, but let's think for a minute...
But what about other deaths each year?
7 ) 70,000+ die from a drug overdose
8 ) 49,000 people die per year from the flu
9 ) 37,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities
Now it gets interesting:
10 ) 250,000+ people die each year from preventable medical errors.
You are safer in Chicago than when you are in a hospital!
11 ) 610,000 people die per year from heart disease.
Even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths would save about twice the number of lives annually of all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law enforcement, etc.)
A 10% reduction in medical errors would be 66% of the total gun deaths or 4 times the number of criminal homicides.
Simple, easily preventable, 10% reductions!
We don't have a gun problem... We have a political agenda and media sensationalism problem.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/?tid=a_inl_manua
https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812603
8 ) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
9 ) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhamcs/web_tables/2015_ed_web_tables.pdf
10 )
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