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Why Aren’t We as Enraged About Vaccine Deaths as We are About Gun Deaths?
by Catherine J. Frompovich, Guest | Waking Times
Please be forewarned. I’m going to go where no one probably has gone before or probably will attempt to go again. However, after reading statistics about gun deaths in the USA and how they are spun in order to gain gun control and negate the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, I feel perhaps something’s just not quite cricket, so I’d like to know if readers think the same.
Furthermore, if one Constitutional Amendment is negated, that sets the stage that all can be lost! Ever think of that? Do we want that?
Recently a reader emailed me the the article “Gun Control Facts You’ll Never Hear.” Knowing how statistics are spun in general, I began to appreciate there’s an agenda for controlling the population’s perception and also what’s been called “problem-reaction-solution”—the apparent solution being a preprogrammed end result impacting special interests’ agendas, e.g., total gun control.
According to Rense, these are how U.S. gun deaths break down:
There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms. That is not disputed.
What is never shown, though, is a breakdown of those deaths to put them in perspective, as compared to other causes of death. [CJF emphasis]
• 65% of those deaths are by suicide, which would never be prevented by gun laws
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and mostly justified
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths
So technically, “gun violence” is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100 (0.17 x 30,000).
Still too many? Well, first, how are those deaths spanned across the nation?
• 480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago
• 344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore
• 333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit
• 119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington DC (a 54% increase over prior years)
So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.
This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation or about 75 per state. That is an average because some states have much higher rates than others. [50 states + DC]
So who are responsible for the majority of gun deaths?
Suicides claim 65 percent; law enforcement 15 percent; accidental gun discharges 3 percent. That leaves 17 percent of gun deaths from criminal type activity or mentally ill persons with four large cities accounting for most of those criminal deaths: Chicago 9.4 percent; Baltimore 6.7 percent; Detroit 6.5 percent; and Washington, DC 2.3 percent. Interesting?
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Source: http://www.philosophers-stone.co.uk/?p=12863
