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Why should Americans complain about gun violence?
Don't they know gun violence in much worse in countries like Brazil?
8 Answers
- Anonymous2 years ago
I don't understand the way they think.
- Anonymous2 years ago
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- 2 years ago
You shouldnt compare US to Brazil - in fact you should compare US to other developed countries with similar GDP per capita and much less gun violence: Australia, UK, France, Japan.
- SilasLv 62 years ago
In Brazil there were no massacres (only now one happened to have seen news from the US). There is no terrorism.
- Donut TimLv 72 years ago
It is because Americans want to, and feel they can, control everything by using "laws".
They want to control everyone's alcohol, cigarettes, firearms, knives, sugar intake, amount of exercise, water usage, maximum and minimum income, education etc.
- W.T. DoorLv 72 years ago
Reality:
Nearly all of the murders and illegal shootings in the USA each year involve people who know each other and who are having a dispute. The # 1 motive for the disputes is drug trafficking and # 2 is domestic violence.
At least 75% of the murders and illegal shootings involve ethnic minorities as both perpetrators and victims. The percentage is actually higher since murders/shootings with "unknown perpetrator" typically happen in ethnic minority neighborhoods.
It is already illegal to murder someone.
It is already illegal to shoot someone except in legitimate self defense.
It is already illegal for rights suspended convicted felons and mentally ill people to possess a firearm.
Having proof of identity and passing a background check are already required to buy a firearm in a commercial sale.
All of the above means the problem of violence involving firearms is a social problem and not a gun problem or a law problem. Social problems are best solved with public education, but violent crime in the USA is concentrated in the parts of the country politically dominated by Democrats. The Democrat Party ensures that the public education system is garbage in the areas they control.
Note the correlation between the murder map and the Democrat map:
- Hondo98Lv 62 years ago
So if we're not the worst in the world, then 40 or so gun murders a day is acceptable?