{"id":95002,"date":"2023-08-06T22:27:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T03:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95002"},"modified":"2023-08-06T22:27:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T03:27:45","slug":"95002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95002","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

About those 116 gun deaths per day…<\/a><\/p>\n

Headlines over \u201cgun deaths\u201d will always draw eyes. Some people will immediately click the link, then share it all over social media, just so they can say, \u201cSee! I told you guns are bad!\u201d<\/p>\n

There are usually problems with this, though.<\/p>\n

For example, these reports rarely provide any context and they also tend to involve a fair bit of sensationalism in presenting all firearm-related fatalities as the same.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like this one does<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As of Aug. 1, at least 25,198 people have died from gun violence in the U.S. this year, according to the\u00a0<\/span>Gun Violence Archive<\/a> \u2013\u00a0which is an average of roughly 118 deaths each day.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Of those who died, 879 were teens and 170 were children.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Deaths by suicide have made up the vast majority of gun violence deaths this year. There\u2019s been more than 14,000 deaths by gun suicide this year, an average of about 66 deaths by suicide per day in 2023.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The majority of these deaths have occurred in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois and Louisiana.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The grim tally of gun violence deaths includes 488 people killed in police officer-involved shootings. Thirty-four police officers have been fatally shot in the line of duty this year.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So about 56 percent of those deaths were suicides and nearly 500 were killed in officer-involved shootings, meaning they were justified homicides.<\/p>\n

Now, this is going to be used to push gun control. It\u2019s going to be used to justify more and more restrictions on our basic civil liberties, and they dishonest hacks won\u2019t even pretend there\u2019s a difference in these categories of shootings.<\/p>\n

Suicides are awful and tragic, as are homicides, but the two things are very different.<\/p>\n

The solutions to suicides aren\u2019t the same as those for homicides. The motivations are completely different, so addressing the underlying causes is going to be completely different.<\/p>\n

Gun control doesn\u2019t stop suicides. At best, it shifts people to use another method, but it doesn\u2019t stop suicides.\u00a0Granted, it doesn\u2019t stop homicides, either.<\/p>\n

Yet anti-gun voices in the media love to lump all gun deaths into one big bucket. They want as big of a number as possible to scare people with. You can\u2019t do that with just the homicide numbers.\u00a0So, suicides it is.<\/p>\n

Yes, these are all \u201cgun deaths\u201d if you just want the total of people who were killed due to a gunshot. For many people, though, that\u2019s all that matters.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s telling, because most of these people claim they don\u2019t want to ban gun ownership, but then can\u2019t differentiate between criminals\u2019 acts and someone who took their own life due to their own mental illness.<\/p>\n

They want them lumped because the evil, at least in their minds, is the guns themselves.\u00a0If it was really about saving people\u2019s lives, they\u2019d focus on the underlying conditions at play here. Everything from mental health treatment to job programs would be on the agenda.<\/p>\n

The fact that they\u2019re not is telling.\u00a0It\u2019s just not telling us anything we didn\u2019t already know after decades of watching and listening to the anti-gun agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About those 116 gun deaths per day… Headlines over \u201cgun deaths\u201d will always draw eyes. Some people will immediately click the link, then share it all over social media, just so they can say, \u201cSee! I told you guns are bad!\u201d There are usually problems with this, though. For example, these reports rarely provide any … 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":[78,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darwin-awards","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95002","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=95002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95003,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95002\/revisions\/95003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}