A tried-and-true solution to shootings. Are we smart enough to learn?
When it comes to shootings, mass or otherwise, America is an outlier among first-world nations.
The U.S. has 3.96 deaths from gun violence per 100,000 people in 2019. That was more than eight times as high as the rate in Canada, which had 0.47 deaths per 100,000 people — and nearly 100 times higher than in the United Kingdom, which had 0.04 deaths per 100,000.
The numbers come from a massive database maintained by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which tracks lives lost in every country, in every year, by every possible cause of death.
Here are some Republican ideas for stopping the slaughter
Arming teachers.
Limiting access to school buildings to a single locked door.
Expanding research into school violence.
Creating a federal task force to recommend how communities can make schools safe. Improving mental health care.
Republicans have offered up seemingly every potential solution to stop mass gun violence except restricting access to the weapons themselves.
Here’s a classic:
“What about getting a department that’s looking at young men that’s looking at women that’s looking at their social media?”
That brilliant comment came from the choice of Republican voters and Donald Trump to be a Senator from Georgia, Herschel Walker, in a Fox News interview.
Walker’s ex-wife said he had pointed a gun at her head, and “talked about having a shoot-out with police.” His own therapist said, “He threatened to kill her, myself, and himself. I called 911, and the police came.”
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick touted his state’s existing program that allows teachers to be armed, which did not prevent the massacre and called for more security around schools.
Republicans are open to legislation that would “harden” school buildings to make them more difficult to attack, although Democrats have criticized the idea of making campuses into jail-like fortresses.
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As for the “arms,” are they swords and flintlock pistols? Are they automatic rifles? Are they hand grenades, flame throwers? Or are “arms” something like this:
Question for the Supreme Court: Should every American be allowed to own and carry AA12s? If not, why not? They are today’s “arms.”
Then there is the question of which “people”? Two-year-olds are people. Criminals are people. All those in jails and prisons are people? Aliens are people. Witnesses testifying in court are people. Should they all be allowed to pack guns? If not, why not?
Back in the 1700s, anyone of any age could carry a gun. Is that what the phony “originalists” now want in the 2000s?
Or should we merely wait for the next shooting, then offer our “thoughts and prayers”?
If so, you don’t have long to wait. Mass shootings in the United States are far more common than you have imagined:
U.S. marks Memorial Day weekend with at least 12 mass shootings
Since the Uvalde, Tex., elementary school tragedy, there have been at least 15 other shootings that had at least four victims By Annabelle Timsit Updated May 31, 2022
But mass shootings have already happened again — and again. At least 15 mass shootings have taken place across the United States since Tuesday, from California to Arizona to Tennessee.
This Memorial Day weekend alone — spanning Saturday, Sunday and the federal holiday on Monday — there have been at least 12 mass shootings.
The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research organization, defines a mass shooting as one in which “four or more people are shot or killed, not including the shooter.”
So is the situation hopeless? Are we doomed to keep repeating the same mistake over and over again? Will children and adults keep dying, because we are not smart enough to make necessary changes?
Will we continue to insist that everyone should have the right to own and carry a killing machine, while we simultaneously pray the killing and wounding will stop?
Are we really that stupid?
Do we sincerely want a solution?
What can Australia teach us about guns and gun control?
A (mass gun) massacre rocked Australia.
So, the then-prime minister, a conservative politician and close friend of George W. Bush, pushed through sweeping gun control legislation just 12 days after the shooting.
“The hardest things to do in politics often involve taking away rights and privileges from your own supporters,” Howard said.
The tough new laws banned the sale and importation of all automatic and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns; forced people to present a legitimate reason, and wait 28 days, to buy a firearm; and – perhaps most significantly – called for a massive, mandatory gun-buyback.
Australia’s government confiscated and destroyed nearly 700,000 firearms, reducing the number of gun-owning households by half.
Howard told Doane, “People used to say to me, ‘You violated my human rights by taking away my gun.’ And I’d tell them, ‘I understand that. Will you please understand the argument, the greatest human right of all is to live a safe life without fear of random murder?’”
If we tally mass shootings that have killed four or more people, in the United States there have been well over 100 since the 1996 Port Arthur tragedy. But in Australia, there has been just one in the 26 years since their gun laws were passed. Plus, gun homicides have decreased by 60%.
Perhaps, Australians simply are smarter than we are.
Or is it just that their High Court is smarter and more honest than our Supreme Court?
Or is it that Australian media don’t include a “guns-for-everyone” medium like Fox News. (Murdoch’s news channel in Australia has celebrated the country’s gun control laws — and expressed hope that the U.S. would adopt similar ones.)
Or do Australians care more about life than we do?
The problem: America has more guns per capita than any first-world nation on earth.
The symptom: America has more gun-related deaths, woundings, and crimes than any first-world nation on earth.
To cure the symptom, we must cure the problem. Australia has shown us one way to begin.
Are we too stubborn or simply too stupid to learn?
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell Monetary Sovereignty Twitter: @rodgermitchell Search #monetarysovereignty Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO IMPROVE AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.
The most important problems in economics involve:
- Monetary Sovereignty describes money creation and destruction.
- Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics. Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps: Ten Steps To Prosperity:
- Eliminate FICA
- Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D, plus long-term care — for everyone
- Social Security for all
- Free education (including post-grad) for everyone
- Salary for attending school
- Eliminate federal taxes on business
- Increase the standard income tax deduction, annually.
- Tax the very rich (the “.1%”) more, with higher progressive tax rates on all forms of income.
- Federal ownership of all banks
- Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99.9%
The Ten Steps will grow the economy and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.
MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY
Source: https://mythfighter.com/2022/05/31/a-tried-and-true-solution-to-shootings-are-we-smart-enough-to-learn/
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