Some people are more violent by their nature. Who? Which ones? How do we know that?
In a very successful effort to shift the blame for mass killings from the group of people who commit the killings to people and things that are not responsible for the murders we have been subjected to hear that white nationalism and race hatred cause some people to commit mayhem.
Another part of the mis-blame game is to blame guns. If there were no guns there would be no mass murders. Oh yeah? Actually, NO! Guns cannot decide to murder people. Guns cannot think so guns cannot be the cause of murder. Guns cannot act so we can be certain no gun ever murdered anyone. But even when people have no guns they can murder people and when they do the left wing media will blame either white people or guns or both for committing the murders or for making the murders possible. It’s like blaming baseballs for home runs or footballs for making touchdowns. In other words its wrong.
The WHO, the World Health Organization lists the top 10 causes of death. Of the 57 million deaths worldwide in 2016, more than half, 31 million (54%) were due to the top 10 causes but death by gun was not one of them. . Ischaemic heart disease and stroke are the world’s biggest killers, not guns, accounting for a combined 15.2 million deaths in 2016. These diseases, not guns have remained the leading causes of death globally in the last 15 years.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, not guns claimed 3.0 million lives in 2016, while lung cancer (along with trachea and bronchus cancers) caused 1.7 million deaths. Diabetes killed 1.6 million people in 2016, up from less than 1 million in 2000. Deaths due to dementias more than doubled between 2000 and 2016, making it the 5th leading cause of global deaths in 2016 compared to 14th in 2000.
Lower respiratory infections remained the most deadly communicable disease, causing 3.0 million deaths worldwide in 2016. The death rate from diarrhoeal diseases decreased by almost 1 million between 2000 and 2016, but still caused 1.4 million deaths in 2016. Similarly, the number of tuberculosis deaths decreased during the same period, but is still among the top 10 causes with a death toll of 1.3 million. HIV/AIDS is no longer among the world’s top 10 causes of death, having killed 1.0 million people in 2016 compared with 1.5 million in 2000. Even so, gun murders were even fewer than the number of deaths by HIV/AIDS. Three times more people died of HIV/AIDS than from non-suicides from guns.
Road injuries killed 1.4 million people in 2016, about three-quarters (74%) of whom were men and boys. That’s almost five times more deaths from motor vehicles than from guns yet no one is considering banning cars and trucks even though they are responsible for four and five times more deaths than guns. But guns save lives. The number of people whose life was saved by a gun is in the millions per year yet you probably have no idea how many people were protected from harm or loss by the successful deployment of a gun. High end estimates of successful defensive gun use reach 4.7 million per year. Simply brandishing a weapon was sufficient to stop an attack 95% of the time. The photo of Mad Max Waters? No reason to have it here but it seems to show she’s befuddled by all this stuff.
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