It's true that more Americans die by gun from suicide (54%) than by homicide (43%):
www.pewresearch.org
Common sense gun safety regulations? Do you really think that more laws on "gun safety regulations" would have any impact on the epidemic of murder in the U.S., particularly among black criminals wielding illegal handguns?
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Poverty is a big reason for crimes, one can see how many places in South America has the most crimes in the world. Most of the times Blacks live more in poverty thus why there is a lot more crimes where there are more Blacks. Detroit is a perfect example with very high crimes but it is also the poorest city in the USA.The simple fact is that states with high percentages of blacks have high rates of violent crime. Crime rates will vary within those states depending on where black people live. Crime rates vary tremendously by local areas within a state and even within a city.
Some data on crime rates by U.S. city:
Which U.S. Cities Are the Most Dangerous? | Security.org
If you had to guess which town in the United States was the single most violent, would you have picked tiny Industry, California? Probably not. Most of us would likely name St. Louis or Baltimore, maybe Chicago or New York. Surely few, if any, would point to the 204-person Industry, a suburb...www.security.org
The only thing being swept under the rug is Republican politicians' denial of the gun crisis and their obsequiousness to the gun lobby. The majority of Americans want common-sense gun safety regulations that include banning high capacity magazines and assault weapons.
Couple that with stand-your-ground laws in some states and it's a recipe for sheer insanity:
Stand-your-ground law - Wikipedia
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Even areas that impose a duty to retreat generally follow the "castle doctrine", under which people have no duty to retreat when they are attacked in their homes, or (in some places) in their vehicles or workplaces. The castle doctrine and "stand-your-ground" laws provide legal defenses to persons who have been charged with various use of force crimes against persons, such as murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault, and illegal discharge or brandishing of weapons, as well as attempts to commit such crimes.
In Florida, self-defense claims tripled in the years following enactment.[22][23] Opponents argue that Florida's law makes it potentially more difficult to prosecute cases against individuals who commit a crime and claim self-defense. Before passage of the law, Miami police chief John F. Timoney called the law unnecessary and dangerous in that "[w]hether it's trick-or-treaters or kids playing in the yard of someone who doesn't want them there or some drunk guy stumbling into the wrong house, you're encouraging people to possibly use deadly physical force where it shouldn't be used."
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To say a mass shooter doesn't "fit a narrative" is to imply that mass shooters are supposed to be cut from the same cloth of being white and male, and that their irrational motivations (their motivations are always irrational) are supposed to be the same.Here's another mass shooting/killing offender who "doesn't fit the narrative." He seems to have been really upset about Biden's border policy that has allowed so much fentanyl into the USA. Biden has not commented on the crime and he is not likely to comment for obvious reasons.
Arizona man angry over fentanyl addicts kills 4, wounds 1 in shooting spree: cops
The suspect claimed all his victims didn’t deserve to live because three of them were fentanyl users, another was homeless and the other simply made him angry, according to his police confess…
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The new Florida law allows concealed gun carry without a permit or training. Ridiculous.
It's not just DeSantis. Several states like GA and TX have constitutional carry now. In the past, if you wanted to carry a gun on your person you went through an additional background check and paid a small amount to get a concealed weapons license. With constitutional carry, that is no longer necessary. If you can get a gun, that's all you need. Does this potentially put police more in harm's way? Of course, but the gunvangelists writing the laws don't care.
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