Florida’s Teacher of the Year Bluntly Writes WHY School Violence Is Out of Control
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This is exactly what my wife (a teacher) says also.
When I was a child there were only black and white tv's, color tv's hadn't been produced then, but I recall murder programs were all the rage. Today, violence, murders, shootings etc is still a mainstay of tv programs, nothing has changed except it no longer is a novelty. My opinion, tv violence feed into living rooms around the world on a daily basis is no different from cigerette companies peddling their poison, but the diffence is, cigerette advertising is heavily regulated, not so tv violence.
Great but what about the 10 years of relative moonshot effort it would take to make a difference when kids are being killed?
The boy Cruz had access to something like 10 guns, he chose the AR for an obvious reason.
No high capacity guns under 21 (or 24 ideally.. just me). Any guns sold to such young guys, private and professional sent to the DMV perhaps or anyone who can handle it from an IT & security perspective. Same ownership tracking as a car, nothing fancy.
A massive upgrade of the hopeless NRA safety courses. (If you can find the failure rate on those your Google Kung-Fu is better than mine this AM)
This is interesting if accurate, just saw it. "Just 3% of Americans own half the guns"
http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/a-m...f-the-guns-and-drives-gun-agenda-studies-show
"Americans are not as gun-obsessed as some would like their countrymen to believe. Linking gun ownership to the identity of being an American has been a successful sales tactic that is more myth than reality. The numbers show that asmall, unrepresentative, but disproportionately vocal portion of the American population, aided by self-serving politicians and a powerful lobby organization, has enacted its agenda over the majority of Americans, who do not own guns and would rather see much stronger gun safety regulations.
How many Americans actually own a gun? A 2016 study by Harvard and Northeastern University put the total number of privately-owned firearms in the U.S. at 265 million, with more than half of that - 133 million - being concentrated in the hands of just 3% of Americans, called "super owners," who have an average of 17 guns each."
Which makes a lot of sense. The majority are being held hostage by the obsessed fanboys. No wonder the NRA does not want anyone counting.
The boy Cruz had access to something like 10 guns, he chose the AR for an obvious reason.
No high capacity guns under 21 (or 24 ideally.. just me). Any guns sold to such young guys, private and professional sent to the DMV perhaps or anyone who can handle it from an IT & security perspective. Same ownership tracking as a car, nothing fancy.
A massive upgrade of the hopeless NRA safety courses. (If you can find the failure rate on those your Google Kung-Fu is better than mine this AM)
This is interesting if accurate, just saw it. "Just 3% of Americans own half the guns"
http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/a-m...f-the-guns-and-drives-gun-agenda-studies-show
"Americans are not as gun-obsessed as some would like their countrymen to believe. Linking gun ownership to the identity of being an American has been a successful sales tactic that is more myth than reality. The numbers show that asmall, unrepresentative, but disproportionately vocal portion of the American population, aided by self-serving politicians and a powerful lobby organization, has enacted its agenda over the majority of Americans, who do not own guns and would rather see much stronger gun safety regulations.
How many Americans actually own a gun? A 2016 study by Harvard and Northeastern University put the total number of privately-owned firearms in the U.S. at 265 million, with more than half of that - 133 million - being concentrated in the hands of just 3% of Americans, called "super owners," who have an average of 17 guns each."
Which makes a lot of sense. The majority are being held hostage by the obsessed fanboys. No wonder the NRA does not want anyone counting.
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This is incorrect.
* The United States had a population of 319 million people in 2014.[6]
* Roughly 371 million firearms were owned by U.S. civilians and domestic law enforcement in 2014. Of these, about 146 million or 39% were handguns.[7]
* Civilians accounted for 80% of non-military gun industry revenues in 2012.[8]
* Handguns comprised 52% of all new guns sold to civilians and law enforcement in 2014, as compared to 35% in 2000.[9]
* Based upon national surveys, the following are estimates of private firearm ownership in the U.S. as of 2016:
Households With a Gun 36% – 49%
[10] [11] [12]
https://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp#ownership
All sources detailed there.
Harvard and Northeastern University professors vs Justfacts.com...
Maybe you need to read the paper?
I'll look gain in an hour (at the paper). Money to make just at the mo.
Quick note, the research is very widely cited with the response from three gun owner forums being squeals of delight at being a 17+ Super-Owner.
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/09/harvard-gun-ownership-study-self-defense/
The animation at the top of this is very cool.
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/09/harvard-gun-ownership-study-self-defense/
The animation at the top of this is very cool.
I have read the article. The study results are not listed in there (that I could find). They stated they would release them "next year" but there is no link. Just Facts doesn't make it's own sources up - all sources are clearly annotated at the bottom of the document.
Liberals control the media, entertainment industry, the education systems, the non-elected federal government and most state governments, the judiciary and most professions. They created this mess. They told us to be tolerant, tolerant with violence, with gangs, with illegal immigration, with an epidemic of social dysfunction, with lack of respect for authority. Now their solution to the inevitable chaos is to take away our means of defending ourselves.
Sorry. We draw the line there. Not one inch. That's how much we're prepared to compromise on gun control.
If they are so worried about school violence, put guards and metal detectors at every school. Most already have them. Arm teachers and administrators. Lock classrooms.
Sorry. We draw the line there. Not one inch. That's how much we're prepared to compromise on gun control.
If they are so worried about school violence, put guards and metal detectors at every school. Most already have them. Arm teachers and administrators. Lock classrooms.