The United States continues to be peculiar in handing out powerful magazine-fed firearms to almost anyone who wants one and not requiring background checks on private purchases even if these are made at gun shows. 80% of civilian-owned firearms world-wide are in the US, and only Yemen vaguely competes with us for rates of firearm ownership; Yemen is a violent mess with Shiite insurgencies, al-Qaeda taking over cities from time to time, tribal feuding, southern separatism and US drone strikes. And even it has fewer guns per person than the USA.
It has gotten to the point where the increasing epidemic of mass shootings now threatens law enforcement, with the deaths of 5 policemen in Dallas at the hands of an unhinged Black ultra-nationalist.
Teb Chaws Asmeskas yog downright weird piv rau civilized Western Europe los yog Australia (uas tau tswj hwm rab phom tom qab kev tua loj hauv xyoo 1996 thiab tsis muaj qhov xwm txheej zoo li no ntxiv).
Xyoo 2013-2014 ( kaum ob lub hlis pib lub Peb Hlis), muaj 29 tus neeg tuag los ntawm kev ua txhaum cai phom in England and Wales (equivalent to 144 because UK is smaller than US).
Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2014: 8124
feem pua of all Murders that were committed by firearms in US: 68%
Kev tua tus kheej hauv Asmeskas 2013: 41,149
Gun Suicides in US, 2013: 21,175
feem pua ntawm txhua qhov kev tua neeg hauv tebchaws Askiv thiab Wales uas tau cog lus tseg los ntawm rab phom: 5.4 feem pua.
Cov naj npawb ntawm tua tus kheej hauv tebchaws Askiv thiab Wales, 2011: 4871 (sib npaug li 25,818 hauv Asmeskas lossis 31% qis dua)
Number ntawm kev tua tus kheej los ntawm firearam hauv England thiab Wales, 2011: 84
Yog xav paub ntxiv txog kev tua neeg los ntawm riam phom hauv tebchaws Askiv, saib cov BBC.
Teb Chaws Asmeskas muaj phom loj tshaj plaws nyob hauv lub ntiaj teb thiab kev tua neeg ntau tshaj plaws nyob rau hauv lub ntiaj teb tsim.
Nws zoo nkaus li meej meej, ib yam nkaus, tias ntau qhov kev tua tus kheej hauv Teb Chaws Asmeskas yuav tsis tshwm sim yog tias riam phom tsis muaj tag nrho.
Muaj qee qhov kev sib raug zoo ntawm tus nqi siab ntawm cov tswv cuab ntawm rab phom thiab tus nqi siab ntawm kev ua phem txhaum cai feem ntau, thoob ntiaj teb (thiab yog tias koj sib piv lub xeev los ntawm lub xeev hauv Teb Chaws Asmeskas):
h / t Christopher Majka
Nyob rau hauv cov ntaub ntawv ntawm teb chaws Aas Kiv, phom tua yog 53 lub sij hawm tsawg dua hauv Teb Chaws Asmeskas ib tus neeg. [Tsis txhob thab nrog cov lus tsis raug cai ntawm Switzerland los yog Ixayees, qhov twg cov pej xeem feem ntau yog sib npaug ntawm cov tub rog reservists.]
Puas yog cov neeg yos hav zoov xav tau ib nrab tsis siv neeg AR-15 riam phom tua? Puas yog lawv dov hauv lub caij mos lwj? Cov US pej xeem tsis xav li ntawd.
PS qhov no yog kho dua tshiab ntawm kab laus; yog tias lawv pheej tsis kam lees txoj cai lij choj thiab mus ua rau cov neeg tua neeg coob coob no, kuv tuaj yeem sau ib kab ntawv zoo sib xws.
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ZNetwork tau txais nyiaj tsuas yog los ntawm kev ua siab zoo ntawm nws cov neeg nyeem.
Pab Nyiaj
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Chicago shooting victims
http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings/
These numbers are almost surreal. 3000 last year, on a pace for 4000 this year.