Democrat New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich is calling for the Dickey Amendment to be repealed, which prevents the Center For Disease Control and Prevention from studying gun violence and its effects on public health.
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Heinrich Calls For Repeal Of Dickey Amendment That Restricts CDC From Researching Gun Violence
THEY’RE NOT ALLOWED TO RESEARCH IT ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
Land of the free right there, my guys. They’re real big on freedom of speech, oh yes.
America has the worst gun violence in the world because it has more guns, fewer regulations, and lighter enforcement of existing regulations. That’s it. It’s the fucking guns and the fucking gun advocates.
Not mental illness, not violent video games, not anything else. Stop fucking arguing this when we can point to dozens of other countries where gun control works and does not, in fact, plunge those countries into the fascist dystopia daydream the fucking NRA peddles.
I mean, we’re already sort of plunging into a fascist dystopia, it’s just one the pro-gun crowd is comfortable with
Exactly. Politicians give police more and more power to fuck innocent people over without repercussions, keep empowering one of the world’s most corrupt and extreme prison systems, funnel more of our resources into wealthy corporations that never give a damn thing back, eliminate health and environmental regulations that keep people alive, cut down on science and education, inflate an already wastefully large and globally destructive military, attack worker’s rights, basically everything they possibly can to serve the couple wealthiest, most power-mad people on our soil at the expense of everybody else.
But they KNOW the same crowd will keep voting for them complacently as long as they just don’t mess with guns. Not only do gun rights NOT protect us from government overreach, they’ve become the actual tool of it, the actual pacifier in baby’s mouth.
April 12-19 2024
Bonus:
President Biden met a Senior named Bob in Pennsylvania who is personally benefiting from The President's capping the price of insulin for Seniors at $35, and Biden let Bob know about a cap on prosecution drug payments for seniors that will cut Bob's drug bills by more than half.
New Orleans is like Honduras, Detroit is similar to El Salvador.
"We can’t put this off any longer," President Obama implored the nation last week as he introduced 23 executive actions designed to reduce gun violence in America. While the United States has the highest level of gun ownership per capita in the world, its rate of gun homicides, about three per 100,000 people, is far lower than that of Honduras, the country with the world’s highest gun homicide rate (roughly 68 gun murders per 100,000 people). But America’s homicide rate varies significantly by city and metro area, as I pointed out here at Cities a few weeks ago.
The map below compares the rate of gun murders in American cities to nations around the world. Building upon Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data used in that post, Zara Matheson of the Martin Prosperity Institute compiled additional data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other sources collated by The Guardian. (While international crime data suffer from significant reporting and comparison issues, homicide data is more reliable. As the Urban Institute’s John Roman points out, it is the one type of crime that is “hard to fake” and also most likely to be reported.)
The pattern is staggering. A number of U.S. cities have gun homicide rates in line with the most deadly nations in the world.
Yes, it’s true we are comparing American cities to nations. But most of these countries here have relatively small populations, in many cases comparable to large U.S. metros.
The sad reality is that many American cities have rates of gun homicides comparable to the some of the most violent nations in the world.
It's almost like guns are tools designed to kill people, and having a tool designed to kill people makes it easier to kill people.
wait is this true
did we actually have gun control at some point in the recent past?
yes. there’s a study for you on the effect it had as well conducted by the natn’l institute of justice.
LIT THANKS!!
And what's really going to bake your noodles, kids. The push for gun control in the US really got going in the late 60's by a Republican Govenor, Ronald Reagan AND the NRA.
What could have given the modern Republican party a spine, you ask? Well, it was those darn Black people of course! The Black Panther Party to be exact.
Long story short, the Panthers, in response to police brutality and systemic oppression, Panters urged Black people to arm themselves and to protect their own neighborhoods. They showed up to the state house with their rifles and handguns...
And faster than you can reload a fully automatic weapon, Reagan and the NRA were like, oh, Hell no! We need Gun Control! And that became the Mulford Act of 1967 which banned the open carrying of firearms. Go figure.
Bottom line, if it benefits the white supremacist power structure, this country can and will do anything. Big sigh. The hypocrisy is mind numbing.
And that's today's, The More You Know.
The guys think they’ve finally come up with the solution to start the change in gun control the country needs.
This is pretty much what happened to make Reagan push gun control.
MAGA white supremacist and domestic terrorist. MAGA terrorism has become and an established practice and we barely notice it, much like gun violence has. We should not accept these things.
The NRA and their GOP puppets are responsible for the gun violence in America.
Oh, that’s easy. Every time there’s a mass shooting the stock goes up with guns manufacturers due to people buying more arms lest the American government attempt to confiscate them. Thus, politicians who accept money from the gun lobby feel no incentive to do anything about gun violence because the people who pay them are actively profiting them it.
As long as corporations etc. have a say in government, what they want will overrule what the people actually desire, so it seems that the first step towards gun control is limiting the amount of money the gun lobby etc. can donate to politicians, if not stopping it entirely.
Enemies of the people, protectors of the rich, tools of the politicians.
lmaoooooooooo
Aaaand cue congressional Republicans and the NRA, who block the government from performing any record keeping or comprehensive studies on gun violence
