What is rising? Gun ownership?Carpy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 4:30 pmIt's rising, especially with women and even more so with black women.BobCobbMagob wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 3:57 pm Actually… it’s going the opposite way to what you’re saying.
Gun ownership in America has gone massively down… it used to be half of Americans owned guns, now it’s about a quarter - 30% , and we are becoming a more and more dangerous country by the day.
We are seeing more mass murderers, and less firearm ownership.
If we’re going to compare the statistics, the more gun ownership declines =|= the more often people are made into victims.
SallyMae wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 3:20 pm
It's not working. Massively arming the population for personal defense is resulting in many, many more deaths.
This is just the mass shootings in November:
Nov. 1: In East St. Louis, Illinois, two people were killed and three were wounded when a fight broke out after an argument.
In Baltimore, three adults and a teenager were wounded in a nighttime shooting.
In Denver, one person was killed and five were wounded in a drive-by shooting.
Nov. 2: In Hattiesburg, Mississippi, two people were killed and three were wounded in a shooting downtown.
Nov. 4: In Chicago, four men were wounded in a shooting on the street in the city's Humboldt Park neighborhood.
In Orlando, a 23-year-old man shot and killed a four-year-old girl and three women.
In La Plata, Maryland, four people were shot dead in a house.
Nov. 5: In Gainesville, Florida, five people were shot and wounded outside a grocery store.
In Philadelphia, nine people were shot and wounded while they stood outside a bar in the city's Kensington neighborhood.
Nov. 6: In Buffalo, four people were wounded in a mass shooting inside what police called a "party venue."
In Jordan Township, Pennsylvania, three people were killed by the same gunman in two separate locations.
In Chicago, one person was killed and three were wounded in a shootout with a security guard outside a nightclub.
In a second Chicago shooting, five people were wounded at a birthday party on the city's Southwest Side.
In Tulare, California, five people were shot and wounded during an argument after a drag race.
Nov. 7: In McAllen, Texas, a man shot and wounded four of his neighbors during a dispute over a palm tree.
Nov. 11: In Jersey City, New Jersey, four people were wounded in a shooting on the street.
Nov. 12: In Indio, California, one person was killed and three wounded in a shooting on the street.
In Fort Worth, Texas, four people were shot and wounded in an apartment complex.
Nov. 13: In Enfield, North Carolina, one adult was shot and killed, and five adults were wounded along with a teenager at an outdoor bonfire.
In Omaha, Nebraska, one person was shot dead, and seven others were wounded at an early morning gathering on the street.
In Philadelphia, four people were shot and wounded during an argument at a nightclub.
In Memphis, four people were shot and wounded outside a high school.
In Charlottesville, at the University of Virginia, a man shot and killed three students and wounded two others after a school bus trip off campus.
Nov. 16: In Phoenix, a man shot and killed his wife and three children and then killed himself.
Nov. 17: In Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, three Customs and Border Protection agents were shot, one fatally, along with a suspected drug smuggler.
Nov. 18: In Chesterfield County, Virginia, a woman and her three children were shot and killed in what police called a "domestic dispute."
Nov. 19: In Colorado Springs, a gunman with an AR-15 style rifle shot and killed five people and wounded 25 others inside Club Q, a gay bar and nightclub.
Nov. 20: In Philadelphia, Mississippi, one man was shot and killed, and six others were wounded during a dice game on a farm.
In Dallas, four people were wounded during an argument outside a pool hall.
Nov. 22: In Chesapeake, Virginia, a night manager at a Walmart killed seven people and wounded six others before killing himself inside the store.
Nov. 23: In Philadelphia, four high school students were shot outside their school just after early dismissal for Thanksgiving in a drive-by shooting.
n Temple Hills, Maryland, four teenagers and one adult were wounded in an unexplained shooting.
Nov. 24: In Houston, a man walked into a home while people were having Thanksgiving dinner, shot two people dead and wounded two others.
And that's just through Thanksgiving. Arming people for defense does not make them safer. This is not lessening the amount of victims there are. It creates more.
No, it isn’t, it’s declining.
If gun ownership amongst black women is rising, then great… but that would be a different statistic than gun ownership overall in America.
