Oservation O’ The Day<\/p>\n
” ‘It’s the guns. It’s always been the guns,\u2019 said Lisa Geller, a public health researcher at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at Johns Hopkins University.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Adapting the quoted logic\u2026 Hmmm\u2026 that makes the action the fault of an inanimate object rather than the person wielding the object.<\/p>\n That\u2019s\u00a0literally<\/em> the logic from someone at Johns Hopkins. A child shot his teacher, a 72-year-old man opened fire in public: Here’s what that tells us about guns in America.<\/a><\/p>\n A 6-year-old student<\/a>.\u00a0A 72-year-old man<\/a>.<\/p>\n They are two people separated by decades and thousands of miles, but united in one tragic fact: Both made national news in January after authorities said they committed\u00a0horrific gun violence.<\/p>\n The contrast \u2013 like many facts about America’s gun violence problem\u00a0\u2013 is both striking and predictable. This doesn’t happen in other countries, experts say. It happens much more frequently in the U.S., but often hidden from public view. Children, in particular, are far more likely to shoot themselves, a friend\u00a0or family member accidentally, usually inside a home.<\/p>\n “It’s the guns. It’s always been the guns,” said Lisa Geller, a public health researcher at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n While other wealthy countries have similar levels of interpersonal violence, the United States stands alone when it comes to shootings. An average of 110 Americans die daily from gun violence, far above the rate of gun deaths for any comparable nation. The U.S. has about 12 gun deaths for every 100,000 residents, almost four times the rate of the next-highest country, Switzerland, according to experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oservation O’ The Day ” ‘It’s the guns. It’s always been the guns,\u2019 said Lisa Geller, a public health researcher at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at Johns Hopkins University.\u201d Adapting the quoted logic\u2026 The US obesity problem is \u201cthe forks, it\u2019s always been the forks.\u201d Distracted driving deaths are \u201cthe phones, it\u2019s always … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-observation-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89678,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89676\/revisions\/89678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe US obesity problem is \u201cthe forks, it\u2019s always been the forks.\u201d<\/em>
\nDistracted driving deaths are \u201cthe phones, it\u2019s always been the phones.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWhat an absurd and obviously flawed way to spin the problem statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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