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malaise

(269,237 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 07:32 PM Jan 2020

More people will be killed by guns in the USA alone this year than

from any virus. CDC should pay the same attention to gun violence.

This is not to trivialize the virus in China because I have been told that it is no hoax and is very serious but gun violence will kill way more people this year.

I wish we'd see the same panicking about the slaughter of innocents with guns.

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More people will be killed by guns in the USA alone this year than (Original Post) malaise Jan 2020 OP
+1. Price we pay so that George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn can walk Hoyt Jan 2020 #1
NRA malaise Jan 2020 #2
USA's attitude toward guns in mass shootings: Initech Jan 2020 #3
+100 at140 Jan 2020 #4
True but malaise Jan 2020 #6
Guns are a public health hazzard and a public safety hazzard. No joke. No trivia. marble falls Jan 2020 #5
The vast majority, 25,000 of them will be from suicide. Mostly white men. NickB79 Jan 2020 #7
Tell CDC about suicide prevention and mental health care malaise Jan 2020 #8
Are you sure about that? needledriver Jan 2020 #9
Just the Flu kills more than guns hardluck Jan 2020 #10
OK, but China is sending us this new coronavirus! Liberal In Texas Jan 2020 #11
Yep - and in places like Chicago and Seattle, jmg257 Jan 2020 #12

Initech

(100,114 posts)
3. USA's attitude toward guns in mass shootings:
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 07:39 PM
Jan 2020

"Were the guns harmed? No. Move along, nothing to see here! You can blame everything but the gun - swimming pools, cars, ladders, skydiving, you name it."

malaise

(269,237 posts)
6. True but
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 07:58 PM
Jan 2020

while some folks use cars as weapons,they were not created to kill. Guns are produced for only one purpose - to kill

NickB79

(19,277 posts)
7. The vast majority, 25,000 of them will be from suicide. Mostly white men.
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 09:35 PM
Jan 2020

Sadly, suicide prevention and mental health care are still underfunded and stigmatized in this country

The only new gun laws we could enact to address this are red flag laws to get guns out of their hands when they're in a crisis. But that's only if their families are brave enough to act before it's too late.

Liberal In Texas

(13,600 posts)
11. OK, but China is sending us this new coronavirus!
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 02:13 AM
Jan 2020

It actually might kill more of us than guns!

Video shows victims who have died laying in hospital corridors because, it would seem there is no room in the morgues.

So, I guess we don't worry about gun violence, the virus is going to get us.



jmg257

(11,996 posts)
12. Yep - and in places like Chicago and Seattle,
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 08:36 AM
Jan 2020

80-92% of the offenders have criminal records.

Think there’d be some significant way to deal with all those guns ending up in all the wrong hands.



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