The Columbus bit threw me off. 10 million doesn't sound unreasonable honestly.... Seems like most historians put the number at 50+ for the Americas
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Florida high school under lockdown after reports of shooter, victims, police say
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The Columbus bit threw me off. 10 million doesn't sound unreasonable honestly.... Seems like most historians put the number at 50+ for the Americas
Just trying to establish the time frame of the population reference --- because most assertions state the "white man" began killing off Indians after they came over by ship and appeared in the Americas.
The reality is that the majority of Indians in U.S. & Canada territory were killed by disease (not violence) - which was brought over from Europe. The second leading cause of Indian deaths were other Indian tribes. Indian tribes continually warred on one another and kept captured members of opposing tribes as slaves. Violence from white man is only third on the list.
On the subject of diseases - The diseases brought to this continent by the Europeans included bubonic plague, chicken pox, pneumonic plague, cholera, diphtheria, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough.
The exchange also brought New World diseases to the Old World including Syphilis, Polio, Hepatitis, and Encephalitis.
http://public.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site19/diseases.htm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-columbus-bring-syphilis-to-europe/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-columbus-bring-syphilis-to-europe/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/03/native-americans-didnt-wipe-europeans-diseases/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics
I agree disease was by far the major killer. The Spanish and Portuguese were more interested in making them slaves than killing them off
"Over 100 million killed." Really? That eclipses World War II.
Christopher Columbus "personally murdered half a million Natives." Really? That's more than 5 X the total number of U.S. military deaths from Vietnam and the Korean war combined. Even killing 100/day, 365 days/year would take almost 14 years but Columbus didn't have that much time. So how, exactly, did he accomplish that amazing feat? With an "assault rifle"?
You're the expert in posting "pure nonsense."
I'm sure you know exactly what "AMERICANS" think from your private room in the asylum with internet access, thousands of miles from our shores.
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No, it's not.
1. Why use powerful guns, instead of usual guns for practicing shooting skills also entertainment.
My point is are people going to use more and more powerful guns in the future for hunting purpose?
2. As mentioned long time ago, I suggested to have a GPS tractor installed on every AR-15 gun in order to tracking and matching the location of each AR-15 gun according to its planned locations registered with local police's computer system. Such as where will be a hunting trip for the coming days.
When a potential killer stations around a school without the gun's GPS moving away from the school, the area police would be automatically altered to call immediately the gun holder and dispatch for inspection soonest if required.
The gun should not be operational at all once its GPS is removed.
3. The school should provide a large size locker stacking inside teaching rooms for storing two to four students per locker within each locker with the help of each other student (i.e. the higher locker should be filled first with the help from other students to be filled at the lowest locker), in case of encountering gun shooting.
Of course, the lockers must be specially made for bullet proof doors from AR15.
4. Both ways are designed to reduce the number of casualties due to limiting time and speed for the killing by the shooter, hopefully.
Some other effective ways should be also implemented. Such as underground rooms.
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You would have a hard enough time trying to make law abiding people put this on their AR's, and how do you force this on the non law abiding citizens ?