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1/15 The link between Inequality and Gun Violence:
🧵 There's a complex web of factors that contribute to gun violence, but two elements that demand our attention are high inequality and permissive gun laws. Let's take a deep dive into how these factors intersect.
🧵 There's a complex web of factors that contribute to gun violence, but two elements that demand our attention are high inequality and permissive gun laws. Let's take a deep dive into how these factors intersect.
2/15 It's important to start with understanding the correlation between inequality and violence.
When socio-economic disparities widen, frustrations increase. This can result in heightened tensions and often leads to more violence. #IncomeInequality #Violence
When socio-economic disparities widen, frustrations increase. This can result in heightened tensions and often leads to more violence. #IncomeInequality #Violence
3/15 Studies show that societies with larger income gaps tend to have higher rates of violence.
This is particularly true for the US, where inequality has grown considerably over the past few decades. #IncomeInequality
This is particularly true for the US, where inequality has grown considerably over the past few decades. #IncomeInequality
@frizzlebee @Stevenjsargent1 @olivetori @camille46992 @JoJoFromJerz Balderdash
You're the one comparing "apples and oranges lol"😲
Why are you comparing TOTAL firearms RELATED DEATH rates🤦♂️
What if a country has a total gun ban
(On law abiding citizens)
And the highest TOTAL firearms RELATED DEATH rate
What if it's all inter gang wars?!😱🤦♂️
You're the one comparing "apples and oranges lol"😲
Why are you comparing TOTAL firearms RELATED DEATH rates🤦♂️
What if a country has a total gun ban
(On law abiding citizens)
And the highest TOTAL firearms RELATED DEATH rate
What if it's all inter gang wars?!😱🤦♂️
@frizzlebee @Stevenjsargent1 @olivetori @camille46992 @JoJoFromJerz What if highest TOTAL firearms RELATED DEATH rate
Was all inter gang wars?!😱🤦♂️
In a country with a TOTAL gun ban on law-abiding citizens
Another was all suicides with illegal guns
Another all lawful law-enforcement shootings
What does any of that tell you about gun control?
Was all inter gang wars?!😱🤦♂️
In a country with a TOTAL gun ban on law-abiding citizens
Another was all suicides with illegal guns
Another all lawful law-enforcement shootings
What does any of that tell you about gun control?
@frizzlebee @Stevenjsargent1 @olivetori @camille46992 @JoJoFromJerz Why you NOT using highest TOTAL firearms MURDERS
Instead of cherry-picking highest TOTAL firearms RELATED DEATH rates
THAT'S apples & oranges
US has high gun ownership
So obviously many suicides use them
But highest suicide rates are in very strict gun control countries!😱🤦♂️
Instead of cherry-picking highest TOTAL firearms RELATED DEATH rates
THAT'S apples & oranges
US has high gun ownership
So obviously many suicides use them
But highest suicide rates are in very strict gun control countries!😱🤦♂️
🤚 Are you sick and tired of gun violence?
Most Americans are, and a new Fox News poll found that an overwhelming majority of voters want lawmakers to pass laws to address gun violence.
#ncpol #GunViolence
Most Americans are, and a new Fox News poll found that an overwhelming majority of voters want lawmakers to pass laws to address gun violence.
#ncpol #GunViolence
The poll was taken even before a man with reportedly white supremacist views opened fire in a Texas mall over the weekend, killing 8 people.
#ncpol #TexasMall
#ncpol #TexasMall
The poll found that more than 80% of Americans support background checks for gun purchases, raising the legal age to 21 to buy all guns, and a ban on assault weapons.
#ncpol
#ncpol
1/ 🚨New pre-print online!🚨"School Shootings Increase NRA Donations" explores how the pro-gun political right in the US counter-mobilizes after school shootings. I provide causal estimates for substantive and lasting increases in donations to the NRA. osf.io/preprints/soca…🧵👇
2/ The US has experienced a tragic increase in school and mass shootings. Most studies focus on effects on support for gun regulations and voting. To understand (the absence of) changes in gun regulation, we must consider the full range of political.
3/ Gun owners are a highly active political constituency. Yet, we lack systematic quantitative evidence on how their participation changes after school shootings amid threats of gun regulation.
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🇬🇧 UK mass shootings with at least four casualties:
2000 - 2023: 7 (total deaths, 24).
🇺🇸 US mass shootings with at least four casualties:
2023: 201
2022: 647
2021: 690
The US firearm homicide rate in 2019 was 22 times greater than the rate of the EU.
🇬🇧 UK mass shootings with at least four casualties:
2000 - 2023: 7 (total deaths, 24).
🇺🇸 US mass shootings with at least four casualties:
2023: 201
2022: 647
2021: 690
The US firearm homicide rate in 2019 was 22 times greater than the rate of the EU.
In 2021, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 48,830 people died principally from gun-related injuries in the US.
That figure includes gun murders, gun suicides, accidental gun deaths, those that involved law enforcement & cases that couldn't be determined.
That figure includes gun murders, gun suicides, accidental gun deaths, those that involved law enforcement & cases that couldn't be determined.
Suicides account for the majority of US gun deaths.
In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958).
Other gun deaths were: accidental (549); involved law enforcement (537); or had undetermined circumstances (458).
In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958).
Other gun deaths were: accidental (549); involved law enforcement (537); or had undetermined circumstances (458).
Blame Biden's open borders & Obama's "Fast & Furious" gun running program putting 650 UNTRACED semi-automatic rifles like AK-47's into the hands of known drug cartel associates.
We don't need gun-control we need Democrat-control.
#GunControl
#TexasMassacre
#TexasShooter
We don't need gun-control we need Democrat-control.
#GunControl
#TexasMassacre
#TexasShooter
"Fast and Furious was an operation so cloak-and-dagger Mexican authorities weren't even notified that thousands of semi-automatic firearms were being sold to people in Arizona thought to have links to Mexican drug cartels....
forbes.com/sites/realspin…
forbes.com/sites/realspin…
...According to ATF whistleblowers, in 2009 the U.S. government began instructing gun storeowners to break the law by selling firearms to suspected criminals. ATF agents then, again according to testimony by ATF agents turned whistleblowers, were ordered not to intercept...
Our #Guns are sold legally to people who take them to #Mexico (200K per year) that are then used by gangs & drug lords.
They then cause crime & terror that causes many to flee illegally to #America
Our #BorderCrisis is supported by the #NRA fight against #GunControl (comment)
They then cause crime & terror that causes many to flee illegally to #America
Our #BorderCrisis is supported by the #NRA fight against #GunControl (comment)
I 100000000000000% support mexico's effort to stop the gun merchants who should take better care not to sell to people who take guns to drug lords
Because gun violence is so pervasive in America, cartoonists often combine it with other important issues to create editorial cartoon "twofers"
Some powerful examples
🧵1/3 #BanWeaponsOfWar #GunControl #GunViolence #GunWorship #CRT #DragHysteria #LGBTQ #TransRights #ABlueView
Some powerful examples
🧵1/3 #BanWeaponsOfWar #GunControl #GunViolence #GunWorship #CRT #DragHysteria #LGBTQ #TransRights #ABlueView
Because gun violence is so pervasive in America, cartoonists often combine it with other important issues to create editorial cartoon "twofers"
Some powerful examples
🧵2/3 #BanWeaponsOfWar #GunControl #GunViolence #GunWorship #CRT #DragHysteria #LGBTQ #TransRights #ABlueView
Some powerful examples
🧵2/3 #BanWeaponsOfWar #GunControl #GunViolence #GunWorship #CRT #DragHysteria #LGBTQ #TransRights #ABlueView
Because gun violence is so pervasive in America, cartoonists often combine it with other important issues to create editorial cartoon "twofers"
Some powerful examples
🧵3/3 #BanWeaponsOfWar #GunControl #GunViolence #GunWorship #CRT #DragHysteria #LGBTQ #TransRights #ABlueView
Some powerful examples
🧵3/3 #BanWeaponsOfWar #GunControl #GunViolence #GunWorship #CRT #DragHysteria #LGBTQ #TransRights #ABlueView
A tragic school shooting in Belgrade on Wednesday, May 3 left eight students and a security guard dead, with the suspected 13-year-old gunman allegedly using his father's two handguns to carry out the pre-planned attack, police say.
Six other pupils and a teacher were hospitalized, some with life-threatening injuries. The young suspected attacker, who will be placed in a psychiatric institution due to being below Serbia's age of criminal responsibility, surrendered to the police after the shooting.
The devastating event has prompted Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic to announce stricter #guncontrol measures, including a moratorium on new gun licenses, revisions of existing permits, and increased surveillance of shooting ranges and civilian weapon storage.
@JohnDunlea @appfeed67 @RaymondZino @EdKrassen So what
US has the most legal guns but is only halfway down the gun-murder league table
Serbia & Israel are in the top few countries with the most legal gun ownership per person but are 3/4 way down
Switzerland 2nd most (possibly most per household) & was falling off bottom!🤦♂️
US has the most legal guns but is only halfway down the gun-murder league table
Serbia & Israel are in the top few countries with the most legal gun ownership per person but are 3/4 way down
Switzerland 2nd most (possibly most per household) & was falling off bottom!🤦♂️
@JohnDunlea @appfeed67 @RaymondZino @EdKrassen So why does US have so many mass shootings such as in schools
When other high gun legal ownership countries don't have mass shootings or even high gun murders
AND US DIDN'T HAVE EITHER BEFORE GUN CONTROLS
What are "liberals" trying to distract & deflect from with gun control😱
When other high gun legal ownership countries don't have mass shootings or even high gun murders
AND US DIDN'T HAVE EITHER BEFORE GUN CONTROLS
What are "liberals" trying to distract & deflect from with gun control😱
@JohnDunlea @appfeed67 @RaymondZino @EdKrassen If want to watch a #Triggernometry interview that could well explain why the USA leads the world with #MassShootings
Especially #MassSchoolShootings
Watch this:
⚠️🚨#TriggerWarning: It's because the USA leads the World with "#Liberalism" & #Feminism!
Especially #MassSchoolShootings
Watch this:
⚠️🚨#TriggerWarning: It's because the USA leads the World with "#Liberalism" & #Feminism!
Talked to a neighbor tonight who IS a concerned American-she is 83-I am 72. Neither of us recognize #ThisAmerica-to the refusal of Congress unwilling to #Act on multiple threats to the country-from a lack of #WIll on #GunControl to rampant racism-attacks on #Freedoms of WtP Smh
We were/are the generation who #DemandsChange WE were active in the #CivilRighstMovement - #TheEndOfTheVietNamWar #TheSexualRevolution #WomensRights Don’t discount our power to #MobilizeAmericaForChange #JoinUs Been there - Done That
Who wants to incorporate a non-profit org >>> #BabyBoomersForChange? There are many waiting in the wings to help. #MobilizeUs who have been here and done this before?
Okay, so here's the thing about the #GunControl and #MentalHealth argument NOW coming from the hardline republican side that's coming out in the wake of the latest mass-shooting. Let me start with the points I can agree on with reasonable voices. Let's do this 🧵
1. Teachers should have the OPTION of arming themselves and training.
2. Schools should be able to facilitate time for teachers who wish to exercise said option.
3. Schools need to be posting signs (even if it's just one teacher) that the teachers are armed, trained and ready
2. Schools should be able to facilitate time for teachers who wish to exercise said option.
3. Schools need to be posting signs (even if it's just one teacher) that the teachers are armed, trained and ready
to use deadly force, if presented.
I can agree that the, mistakenly-celebrated, gun-free zone is nothing but an advertisement for sitting ducks.
Here's where my Pro-Gun crowd is going to flip out and start going nuts but I'm going to say it and the only thing I'm asking is
I can agree that the, mistakenly-celebrated, gun-free zone is nothing but an advertisement for sitting ducks.
Here's where my Pro-Gun crowd is going to flip out and start going nuts but I'm going to say it and the only thing I'm asking is
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon…
#Pluralistic 1/
Inside: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon…
#Pluralistic 1/
Next Monday (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series
iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 2/
iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 2/
Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists: What they think we think.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/aut…
#Pluralistic 1/
Inside: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/aut…
#Pluralistic 1/
Today (3/9), I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…
And remote at #UManitoba:
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…
Tomorrow (3/10), @rgibli and I kick off @sxsw's readings:
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…
And remote at #UManitoba:
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…
Tomorrow (3/10), @rgibli and I kick off @sxsw's readings:
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble: Someday, we're gonna feel pretty silly about our autocomplete worship.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/20/tur…
#Pluralistic 1/
Inside: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/20/tur…
#Pluralistic 1/
Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU: Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows?
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* A Mathematical Theory of Communication web.archive.org/web/1998071501…
* How to Win at Monopoly and Piss Off Your Friends imgur.com/topic/The_More… (h/t @kottke)
* Crowdsourced land-clearing monitoring acfinvestigates.org.au (h/t Michael Pulsford) 3/
* A Mathematical Theory of Communication web.archive.org/web/1998071501…
* How to Win at Monopoly and Piss Off Your Friends imgur.com/topic/The_More… (h/t @kottke)
* Crowdsourced land-clearing monitoring acfinvestigates.org.au (h/t Michael Pulsford) 3/
Tonight, @JoeBiden will be delivering the #StateOfTheUnionAddress. He will try & frame gun owners as problematic & firearms as more than tools of self-defense. He will try & frame gun control as a win, but we know better & GOA will fight every gun control proposal Biden proposes.
@JoeBiden .@JoeBiden starts his #StateOfTheUnionAddress by thanking @LeaderMcConnell for their "bipartisan victories," AKA the gun control McConnell helped get passed. 🙄
Republicans working with @JoeBiden to pass the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization is just one more examples of @SenateGOP negotiating your gun rights away!
At 2pm PST AAPI community leaders across Southern California will discuss the resources available to support AAPI communities and actions underway in the wake of the #MontereyPark shooting. Watch the livestream here ethnicmediaservices.org/media-briefing…
@APCF @AAPIEquity @ajsocal_
@APCF @AAPIEquity @ajsocal_
@APCF @AAPIEquity @ajsocal_ Welcome to today's briefing, where we'll be talking about resources for the AAPI community in the wake of the Monterey Park shooting. Today's briefing will be moderated by @NorbertTanMBA of @AAPIEquity. You can watch the livestream here ethnicmediaservices.org/media-briefing…
This week's tragedy hits home personally, says @NorbertTanMBA, whose family lives in Monterey Park.
@James85fletcher @MrAhmednurAli Where did I say any of that
Gun-controls at best neutral wrt crime but infringement of US constitution & Common Law rights to bear arms on which is based
But balance of real evidence v cherry-picked "proof" based on eg US v other 19 or even 5 of G20/G6 is they make crime WORSE!
Gun-controls at best neutral wrt crime but infringement of US constitution & Common Law rights to bear arms on which is based
But balance of real evidence v cherry-picked "proof" based on eg US v other 19 or even 5 of G20/G6 is they make crime WORSE!
@James85fletcher @MrAhmednurAli If you do a proper comparison of legal gun ownership/possession (Switzerland & Israel have high gun ownership but sky-high possession when you include the military-spec often FULL-AUTO guns armed forcesforces often keep at home) v Gun MURDER (not "deaths"=mainly suicides-which...
@James85fletcher @MrAhmednurAli If do proper comparison of legal gun ownership/possession (inc Switzerland & Israel military guns at home) v Gun MURDER (not "deaths"=mainly suicides-which highest in strictest gun-control nations)
Homicides go UP as LEGAL gun POSSESSION goes DOWN
And murders FALL as guns rise!
Homicides go UP as LEGAL gun POSSESSION goes DOWN
And murders FALL as guns rise!
@CoryPatfield @MrAhmednurAli An "#AssaultWEAPON" is any NON-military spec NON full-auto CIVILIAN SPORTS 😱🤦♂️rifle of a "modern" ie post WW2 design specification ergonomics styling materials & manufacture
That "liberals" want to make the sheeple fear is some kind of FULL-military spec FULL-auto #AssaultRIFLE
That "liberals" want to make the sheeple fear is some kind of FULL-military spec FULL-auto #AssaultRIFLE
@CoryPatfield @MrAhmednurAli "#AssaultWEAPON" is a NON-military spec NON full-auto CIVILIAN SPORTS rifle of "modern"=post WW2 design spec ergonomics styling materials & manufacture
That "liberals" want to make people fear is a FULL-military spec FULL-auto #AssaultRIFLE
As excuse to start to ban all rifles!
That "liberals" want to make people fear is a FULL-military spec FULL-auto #AssaultRIFLE
As excuse to start to ban all rifles!
@CoryPatfield @MrAhmednurAli "#AssaultWEAPONS" are NON-military spec NON full-auto CIVILIAN SPORT rifles of "modern"=post WW2 design spec ergonomics styling materials & manufacture
Which "liberals" want to make people fear are FULL-military spec FULL-auto #AssaultRIFLES
As excuse to start to ban all rifles
Which "liberals" want to make people fear are FULL-military spec FULL-auto #AssaultRIFLES
As excuse to start to ban all rifles
1️- Massive 14.1% ATF Budget Increase to Facilitate Biden’s Pistol Ban
By the time this bill is passed, @ATFHQ will have increased by nearly 25% since the Trump Administration. This money rewards the Biden Administration's tyranny over gun owners. 😠
By the time this bill is passed, @ATFHQ will have increased by nearly 25% since the Trump Administration. This money rewards the Biden Administration's tyranny over gun owners. 😠
2️- 50% Budget Increase for ATF’s Tracing Center that Maintains an Illegal Near-Billion Record Gun Registry
18 U.S.C. 926(a)(3) makes federal gun registration illegal yet @ATFHQ has nearly a billion firearms, serial numbers, & gun owners names in a digital searchable database🤔
18 U.S.C. 926(a)(3) makes federal gun registration illegal yet @ATFHQ has nearly a billion firearms, serial numbers, & gun owners names in a digital searchable database🤔
3️- $700+ Million in Funding Available to Bribe States to Pass “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation Laws
A MASSIVE pool of grant money known as Byrne-Justice Assistance Grants are now available to fund state gun confiscation laws.
Thank @JohnCornyn for this #guncontrol!
A MASSIVE pool of grant money known as Byrne-Justice Assistance Grants are now available to fund state gun confiscation laws.
Thank @JohnCornyn for this #guncontrol!
The History of Gun Control in #Canada
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#guns #BillC21 #guncontrol #hunters #legalgunowners
#yukon #bc #alberta #nwt #Saskatchewan #ontario #Quebec #Manitoba #NovaScotia #NewBrunswick #PEI #Newfoundland #Nunavut
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#guns #BillC21 #guncontrol #hunters #legalgunowners
#yukon #bc #alberta #nwt #Saskatchewan #ontario #Quebec #Manitoba #NovaScotia #NewBrunswick #PEI #Newfoundland #Nunavut
• 1913, you required us to have a permit to carry a handgun.
We complied. There was no discernible reduction in violent crime.
We complied. There was no discernible reduction in violent crime.
• 1920, you required us to have a permit to possess any firearm, regardless of where it was stored.
We complied. There was no discernible reduction in violent crime.
We complied. There was no discernible reduction in violent crime.
Conservatives have conveniently divided the world into "law-abiding people" and "criminals". Yet, we are all capable of doing something criminal. Many have done illegal things and not got caught. Law-abiding vs criminal is a false dichotomy. #cdnpoli #guncontrol
Did you ever smoke weed before October 17, 2018? Have you ever rolled through a stop sign? Driven without your seatbelt? Driven above the posted speed limit? Fudged something on your taxes? Eaten something in a grocery store without paying for it? Been in a fist fight?
Been drunk and disorderly? Driven while under the influence? Made an exaggerated insurance claim? Failed to properly lock up your guns? If you have done any of these things, are you "law-abiding"? Or are you a "criminal"? It gets a bit vague, doesn't it?
1/ THREAD: Body Language and Behavior Analysis No. 4664: Ted Cruz with Parents of child murdered during Uvalde School Shooting
#BodyLanguage #BehaviorAnalysis #LexiRubio #EmotionalIntelligence #TedCruz #Uvalde #GunControl
#BodyLanguage #BehaviorAnalysis #LexiRubio #EmotionalIntelligence #TedCruz #Uvalde #GunControl
2/ In the above picture, Kimberly and Felix Rubio are pictured with Senator Ted Cruz (R, TX).
3/ Kimberly and Felix Rubio are the parents of Lexi, who was murdered along with 18 other students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School on 25 May 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. There were also 18 others wounded.
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An “assault weapons” ban could see a vote as early as 9AM Friday morning.
The only way to stop these unconstitutional actions is call your Representatives NOW!
202-224-3121
An “assault weapons” ban could see a vote as early as 9AM Friday morning.
The only way to stop these unconstitutional actions is call your Representatives NOW!
202-224-3121
.@TomColeOK04 argues that @HouseDemocrats used to call this tactic “martial law” in the House of Representatives (until they seized power).
Now @SpeakerPelosi is more than happy to use this “martial law” to ban guns!
Now @SpeakerPelosi is more than happy to use this “martial law” to ban guns!
Hypocrisy thy name is @RepMcGovern.
Did you forget how much you opposed this "martial law" rule? Don't worry. We found a clip to remind you. 👇
Did you forget how much you opposed this "martial law" rule? Don't worry. We found a clip to remind you. 👇
