Gun control won't work in America, and even if it did, it wouldn't reduce gun violence and the incidence of mass shootings. The only solution is to restore our culture and destroy the hedonistic, materialistic cult infecting our nation.
Sources
- The organizations astroturfing Never Again MSD: http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/01/take-two-weeks-truth-emerge-parkland-students-astroturfing/
- The NRA's contributions and spending: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000082&cycle=2016
- Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign funds: https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate?id=N00030612
- Only 2.5% of murders are committed with rifles - FBI: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-4.xls
- Only 10 out of 49 mass shootings since Columbine were carried out with rifles: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-4.xls
- Mother Jones confirms that a minority of mass shooters use rifles: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map/
- How prison inmates obtained their guns (Table 14) - BJS: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf
- Defensive gun uses vs. violent gun crime (p. 15) - CDC: http://www.ncdsv.org/images/IOM-NRC_Priorities-for-Research-to-reduce-the-threat-of-firearm-related-violence_2013.pdf
- Since 2000, all mass shooters obtained their weapons without using private transfers - The Hill: http://www.ncdsv.org/images/IOM-NRC_Priorities-for-Research-to-reduce-the-threat-of-firearm-related-violence_2013.pdf
- 95% of the people rejected by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System are false positives: https://crimeresearch.org/2014/12/cprc-in-the-associated-press-on-background-checks/
- "CDC: Half of Americans will suffer from mental health woes" - USA Today: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/medical/health/medical/mentalhealth/story/2011-09-05/CDC-Half-of-Americans-will-suffer-from-mental-health-woes/50250702/1
- "Alt-Right: Are Racists Mentally Ill? Some Psychiatrists Say Yes" - Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/alt-right-racism-mental-illness-psychiatry-personality-disorder-652273
- "Repeal the Second Amendment" - The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/guns-second-amendment-nra.html
- America's homicide rate, 1950-2014: https://www.infoplease.com/us/crime/homicide-rate-1950-2014
- Australia's homicide rate, 1997-2006: http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/E9E9A8A4336E01D1CA2572F10017BA43/$File/45100_2006.pdf
- 98% of mass shootings occur in gun-free zones: https://crimeresearch.org/2014/09/more-misleading-information-from-bloombergs-everytown-for-gun-safety-on-guns-analysis-of-recent-mass-shootings/
- #knifefree: https://www.knifefree.co.uk/
- UK's draconian laws about knives: https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
- "Home deliveries of knives bought online to be banned in UK" - The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/18/plans-to-make-delivery-of-knives-sold-online-to-private-addresses-illegal-knife-crime
- "20 injured in mass stabbing at Pennsylvania high school" - Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/79867149-157.html
- "Sagamihara stabbings: 19 dead and 45 wounded as knifeman goes on rampage at building for disabled in Japan" - Mirror: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-sagamihara-stabbings-19-dead-8492641
- "Nice attack: What we know about the Bastille Day killings" - BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36801671
- Comparison of death rates and frequency of mass shootings between Europe, Canada, and the US: https://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe/
- PolitiFact admits the UK has twice as much violent crime than America: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jun/24/blog-posting/social-media-post-says-uk-has-far-higher-violent-c/
- Homicide and violent crime rates among whites, blacks, and Hispanics:
- https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5orwdLXm058i0DxP00BjvR8_vfMIjelCPuU6EKR8g6aoPiE0tPFJdnd2djj_ccMrYG-ByrMQWmUt3bsuiZkMdD4u9tm4djEP_RZRSrUQthDSIvM4qe2lnsO7znkdHBwZuTXv-uxhRO3Jb/s1600/49678%255B1%255D.png
- Arrests by Race and Ethnicity, 2016 - FBI: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/topic-pages/tables/table-21
- Homicide rate for European countries is similar to American white homicide rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
- Kids from single-parent households are more likely to commit crime (Table 15) - BJS: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pji02.pdf
- Single-parent households have tripled since 1960: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/22/less-than-half-of-u-s-kids-today-live-in-a-traditional-family/
- Correlation between fatherlessness, later violence, and mass shootings:
- "Sons of divorce, school shooters" - AEI: http://www.aei.org/publication/sons-of-divorce-school-shooters/
- "Shootings and Fatherlessness: A Clarification on the Data" - Crisis Magazine: https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/fatherless-shooters-clarification-data
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