No one is ever at fault, it's always some inanimate object that caused mayhem.
Nice strawman. What people are actually saying, and what the stats bear out, is that easy access to guns greatly increases the murder rate.
Firearms have been the leading cause of death for US children and teens since 2020, representing 19% of all deaths for children 18 years and younger in 2021.
America's gun homicides in perspective 2020
per capita gun deaths by state red vs blue
Gun homicide rates in our 300 most populous cities; separated into red vs blue states
@DogMan In other words, we have far more mass shootings than Sweden has bombings.
And how does the overall murder rate in Sweden compare to the murder rate in the US??
Sweden saw a significant drop in homicides in 2024, with 92 confirmed cases, the lowest since 2014, marking a 29-case decrease from 2023
Turns out most of those bombings are non-fatal; intended to intimidate not kill.
In the US, the murder rate is 5.0 per hundred thousand population. Converting the Swedish numbers, 92 murders in a population of 10.57 million is 0.87 per hundred thousand; almost SIX times as high!
He was VERY hard to understand. Investigators have asked ALL the remaining witnesses what he yelled out, but no one, so far, was able to understand him.
@DogMan Hamas committed a war crime on Oct 7 when they murdered 800 civilians, no question.
Since then,
According to data cited by the British Red Cross and other aid organizations like Save the Children and UNICEF, the number of children killed is estimated to be over 17,000 to 20,000 since October 7, 2023.
An estimated 6,000 mothers were killed as of April 2024, leaving 19,000 children orphaned.
Women and children account for approximately 70% of the fatalities where the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) has been able to verify the casualties
In short, since Oct 7, Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza. There's no excuse for war crimes from either side. When Oct 7 happened, many of us spoke out against Hamas war crimes. Now that the IDF is committing war crimes, we speak out against that. It's actually an approach that you might call "fair and balanced."
@DogMan I notice you didn't give Hamas the "war is hell" excuse, despite a decades ongoing war between Hamas & IDF with many Palestinian civilian deaths over the years.
"War is hell" might excuse a few accidental deaths. 70% women & children is NOT accidental. So you're saying it's OK to violate the Geneva Convention?? You're ready to bring back poison gas and slave camps for POWs??
