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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
I said in a previous post that I agreed that schools should harden their perimeters. Also, large churches and all squares with entertainment in the US, which would be soft targets. Teachers should have bulletproof rooms where they could squeeze the students into during an emergency. This would mean increasing people's property tax and that would be a TOUGH sell. So, I agree with some of your post.
........As far as my being wrong about the zero Australian mass murders. Yes, if it was really 17 mass killing events since 1997. and I will take your word on that. Then, TECHNICALLY......I misspoke myself. BUT, big but........when you consider that 1997 is 25 years ago. Then 17 mass murders in Australia divided by 25 years is .68 mass murders PER YEAR in Australia. Now let us consider the population of Australia and the US. Australia has 27 million people. US about 360 million or about 13 times greater. So, to equalize Australia and the US to correctly compare mass murders we need to multiply Australia's mass murder rate of .68 per year by multiplying that rate by 13 which gives us - 8.84 So, call that about 9 mass killing events per year. In other words......if the US had the laws and social attitude that Australia has, then there would be ONLY 9 mass murder events in the US per year. Compare that to what the US ACTUALLY has, which is about 360 YEAR TO DATE this year. If we extrapolate out to the end of this year, we get 620 mass murder events.
.......So, when I said Australia had zero (and I thought I read that) ...... when you compare the number 9 to the number 620 .......that makes the 9 almost zero in comparison. And it makes me really wish that I lived in Australia with respect to mass murder events. But even more so and better, I would wish to live in the US and children's lives and adult lives were MORE VALUED like they are in Australia and New Zealand. Ask yourself is it better that my gun goes off.....bang, bang, bang real QUICKLY (SEMI-AUTO) or how about the trade-off of ......bang........bang..........bang a little bit slower to save ALL those lives -------------the 620 times 5 or more LIVES that the US will lose in THIS year alone.
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Your solution is unacceptable. I'm a law abiding citizen. Taking away my Constitutional rights is not acceptable to me. Suggesting that I compromise my Constitutional rights because of evil people, is not acceptable to me.
The solution you propose is based on false logic and will not yield the results you claim. You claim there have been 360 mass shootings so far this year. I'm assuming you have facts to back up that claim. If so, how many people were killed by semi-automatic rifles. That should be an easy number for you to come up with.
While we are waiting for that answer, let's solve another problem. There are 463,634 rape victims on average every year in the US. That number would be zero if we castrate every man in the US and every man entering the US. There are 162,400,000 males in the US and I understand that castrating them all might be expensive, but wouldn't it be worth it? Statistically, 1 out of 6 women have been the victim of rape or attempted rape. Out of 167,500,000 females in the US that means there are 27,916,667 raped females walking the streets. What a horrific picture that paints for America! Wouldn't you agree that if every man was legally required to get castrated our rape problem would be solved. It is a small ask.