Only logged in members can reply and interact with the post.
Join SimilarWorlds for FREE »

What in the HELL Is Wrong With Us?!

Source: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-shootings-20190314-story.html

[sep]

[quote]
[b]Police: Baltimore woman struck up a conversation with 11-year-old boy on the playground, then she opened fire[/b]

ltimore woman walked onto a Cherry Hill playground late Thursday afternoon, struck up a conversation with a boy she didn’t know, then opened fire on the boy and his mother, police say.

Nichole George, 31, of the 900 block of Seagull Ave., is charged with several counts of attempted first-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault and handgun violations, according to police.

“George started talking with the 11-year-old boy and a short time later she allegedly pulled out a gun and shot both victims,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said. “Detectives are still working on the ‘why.’”

The gunshots rang out while dozens of other children played nearby.

“Right now, the motive is still unknown,” Harrison said Friday morning.[...]

[/quote]
SW-User
And that is why you can’t give a gun to everyone.
@Theseus
Quoting your first source; United States. According to the Congressional Research Service, [b]as of 2009 there were roughly twice as many guns per capita in the United States as there were in 1968[/b]: more than 300 million guns in all.

Your second source might hold statistics however, I'm not sure which ones or where to look for them. Your link only sends one to a landing page.

Your third source; doesn't exactly confirm your claim. Not even if looking isolated at the percentages of households owning one or more firearm. Aside it doesn't give a total number of firearms in circulation as we don't get any average number of firearms per household in these statistics.

Let me introduce you to a chart though that might confirm that fewer own guns however, there will be more firearms in circulation:


To get back to my point about numbers of firearms in circulation, there will be more deaths by firearms that are suicides than homicides.

Here's a video that presents some interesting slides explaining what some of the issues are that USA is facing around its gun culture.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX4qUsgHa4Y]
SW-User
@SapphicHeart the video is so interesting! I like how they also mentioned suicide. Cause it’s true, guns don’t give a second chance.
@SW-User
Right, and it's something totally missing in all the talks about gun control and regulations. The numbers are scaring, but there's no real lobby that brings these facts to peoples perception. All the talks around gun control and regulations are based on emotional porn, like this post. It's horrible that something like it happens, but the fact is the more guns in circulation, the more deaths by guns we will see.
early on kids learn that violence is the answer
we have the biggest guns we'll shoot them down
look online for instance
the encouragement to kill
so why are people so surprized?


but it's all good

this earth needs less people

it's a kind of limiting numbers/culling

like we do with animals
Theseus · 46-50, M
@kayoshin Let's try to stick to the topic at hand, please...or hell, one topic at a time even. In any case, people use guns for a lot of reasons. Cops/civilians use them to defend people and property from nutters, crims and tyrants. Hunters use them to feed themselves and their families.
kayoshin · 36-40, M
Wedding out "the nutters" is basically impossible without pissing on everyone's human rights. Even you can be a nutter in the right circumstances so not having a special tool for murder is on topic. Police officers have psychological screenings and more even if they ever even have to draw their firearm, civilians on the other hand don't and can snap too. Wedding out terrorists is another thing and that's what we have intelligence services for.
Theseus · 46-50, M
@kayoshin And taking people's right to keep and bear the means of self defense isn't pissing all over their human rights?
wildbill83 · 36-40, M
The perpetrator...

Lostpoet · M
@wildbill83 She does look like a wreck.
Lostpoet · M
@SW-User I was joking, babe. She should've just shot herself though.
SW-User
@Lostpoet she's a fucking cunt.
Tminus6453 · M
Us?... dont involve me.. its you guys not me
Theseus · 46-50, M
@Tminus6453 Actually, I was thinking about you when I posted this. 😊
Tminus6453 · M
@Theseus Well i was ready to go out and waste a few heads in a bit... soooo🤷‍♂️
Adaydreambeliever · 56-60, F
Horrible.. there are clearly a lot of very disturbed people.. but this is just horrible
kayoshin · 36-40, M
Did she yell "it's coming right at me!" before she fired?
SW-User
This hurts my heart so badly :(
DonaldTrumpet · 70-79, M
DonTz KidZ yourselFz, WimENZ is VerYz Violentz
DonaldTrumpet · 70-79, M
@Adaydreambeliever Yeazh TypicaLz WimENZ
Adaydreambeliever · 56-60, F
@DonaldTrumpet He's the ingrate.. and we all know most men are soooooo desperate they would think themselves lucky if even a fugly woman showed any interest.
DonaldTrumpet · 70-79, M
SW-User
😢 this is so sad
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Have to find out the motive of this. Random, did someone put a hit out on them, or was it a softer false-flag, which wouldn’t surprise me.
Bagalamaga · 56-60, M
Nothing can surprise me anymore
Theseus · 46-50, M
@Bagalamaga I used to say that a lot, then life proved me wrong.

 
Post Comment