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Kukho 1,516 mass shootings in 1,735 days in the United States. You’ll note you don’t hear about mass shootings in Australia, Japan or for the most part the United Kingdom, or other civilized countries whose politicians have not been bought by Abavelisi bemipu abali-10 abakhulu.
IUnited States isaqhubeka ibalasele ekunikezeleni ngemipu enamandla ephuma kumaphephancwadi phantse kuye nabani na oyifunayo kwaye engafuni kuhlolwa ngasemva ekuthengweni kwabucala nokuba yenziwa kwimiboniso yompu okanye ngabantu abanembali yokugula ngengqondo. I-80% yemipu yehlabathi jikelele ise-US, kwaye yi-Yemen kuphela ekhuphisana ngokungacacanga nathi ngeerhafu zobunini bemipu; I-Yemen yisiphithiphithi esinobundlobongela kunye novukelo lwamaShiite, i-al-Qaeda ithatha izixeko amaxesha ngamaxesha, ukulwa kwezizwe, ukwahlukana okusemazantsi kunye nokuhlaselwa kwe-drone yase-US. Kwaye inemipu embalwa kumntu ngamnye kune-USA.
It has gotten to the point where the increasing epidemic of mass shootings now threatens law enforcement.
I-US iyamangalisa kakhulu xa kuthelekiswa nempucuko yaseNtshona Yurophu okanye Ostreliya (eyawisa umthetho wolawulo lwemipu emva kokudubulana kwabantu abaninzi ngo-1996 kwaye akukhange kubekho ziganeko zinjalo).
Ngo-2015-16 (iinyanga ezilishumi elinesibini eziqala ngoMatshi), zazikhona Ngama-26 abantu ababhubhileyo kulwaphulo-mthetho olunxulumene nemipu in England and Wales (equivalent to 130 because Great Britain 1/5 the size of the US).
Amapolisa ase-UK fired their guns 7 times kwi 2015.
Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2016: 11,004
Ipesenteji of all Murders that were committed by firearms in 2016 in US: 73%
Ukuzibulala e-US 2015: 44,193
Ukuzibulala kwemipu e-US, ngo-2015: ~ 22,000
Ipesenti yokuzibulala apho indlela yayiyimipu ngo-2015: 49.8
Ipesenteji kuko konke ukubulala eNgilani naseWales okwenziwa ngompu: 4.5 ekhulwini.
Uphando lwezemfundo lubonisa ukuba imipu engakumbi ilingana nokuzibulala.
Inani le ukuzibulala eNgilani naseWales, 2016: 5,668 (ilingana malunga ne-28,330 e-US okanye i-36% ephantsi)
inani ngokuzibulala ngokudubula eNgilani naseWales, 2011: 84 (this is the most recent statistic I could find but the typical percentage is given as 1.6% of all suicides; that would be the equivalent of 3,530 suicides by firearm in the US, adjusting for population size), instead of 22,000).
Ukufumana okungakumbi ngokubulala ngemipu eBritani, bona i-BBC.
US inobunini bompu buphezulu ehlabathini kunye nelona zinga liphezulu lokubulala kumazwe aphuhlileyo.
Kubonakala kucace kakhulu, kananjalo, ukuba ukuzibulala kwabantu abaninzi base-US bekungeke kwenzeke ukuba imipu ibingekho ndawo zonke.
Kukho unxulumano phakathi kwamazinga aphezulu obunini bemipu kunye namazinga aphezulu olwaphulo-mthetho olunobundlobongela jikelele, kwihlabathi (kwaye ukuba uthelekisa ilizwe nelizwe ngaphakathi e-US):
Kwimeko yaseBritani, ukubulawa kwabantu ngemipu kunjalo amaxesha 53 ngaphantsi kwe-US ngomntu ngamnye. [Ungazihluphi ngokucaphula okungalunganga kwe Swizalend okanye kwaSirayeli, apho uninzi lwabemi lulingana namagosa asemkhosini.]
Lonke udubulo olukhulu ukusukela kuSandy Hook, kwimephu. https://t.co/IqqLwO7LC2 pic.twitter.com/AQMoVLpWh9
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) Disemba 2, 2015
Ngaba abazingeli ngokwenene bafuna izixhobo zohlaselo ze-AR-15 ezizenzekelayo? Ngaba leyo yindlela eziqengqeleka ngayo ngexesha lamaxhama? I Uluntu lwase-US alucingi njalo.
PS olu luguqulelo oluhlaziyiweyo lwekholamu endala; ukuba bayaqhubeka besala ukwenza umthetho ngokufanelekileyo kwaye baqhubeke bebangela ezi ndyikitya zokufa, ndingaqhubeka ndibhala ikholamu efanayo.
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