Protecting Women from Gun Violence

americanprogress.org ^ | 6/14/2014 | Unknown

[rktman]

Levels of gun violence remain unacceptably high in this country, and judging from the daily toll of gun murders to the extraordinary acts of mass violence such as the one that occurred in Isla Vista just days ago, women are too often the targets of gun violence. Every day, five women are murdered with guns in the United States, a large percentage of whom are killed by their intimate partners.

[rktman]

What’s a tissue mass matter anyway? Freakin’ hippo-critters.

[MrB]

ARCHIE BUNKER: Would it make you feel any better if they was pushed out of windows?

[MileHi]

Thanks

For some reason it won’t open, will try again later.

[MrB]

5 a day seems small compared to the violence

PREVENTED

by a woman having a gun.

[SZonian]

http://www.avpress.com/page.php?page=58

Concise, rational comments welcome here...

My comments on the topic:

“Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and it’s not the weapons used. It has been shown that many of the mass shooters were on powerful psychotropic drugs or had been taking them at some point in the immediate past just prior to their crimes.

SSRI drugs ( Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors ) have well known, but unreported side effects, including but not limited to suicide and other violent behavior.

What are these drugs doing? What are the side effects while on them? Another common denominator that no one wants to mention is the vast majority of these shooters were democrats…

In addition, we have state legislatures, corrupt representatives (Yee, Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstein) and the buffoons in Washington doing all they can to disarm sane and law abiding citizens, making us all sitting ducks for these mental cases. I wonder what all those fools have in common. A big fat D after their name.

So there are common themes here; SSRI drugs, democrats or some version of anarchist doing most of the shootings and democrats trying to disarm us…hmmmm. Nope, nothing to see here…it’s got to be the guns. Yep, the guns are the problem.”

[rktman]

“... Nope, nothing to see here…it’s got to be the guns. Yep, the guns are the problem.”

Glad you came to your senses at the end. LOL! :>}

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Every day, five women are murdered with guns in the United States

"Would it make you fell any better, little girl, if they was pushed outta windows?"
- Archie Bunker

[heartwood]

The link worked for me but not to the crosstabbed page I selected.

Here is a link to the home page.

http://ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezashr/

[SZonian]

I snark a lot when I write in to the paper...that may be why I get printed often...facts laced with snark, sarcasm and humor...

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Nope and you never will. Libs could care a less about the millions of dead children their policies have murdered over the years, and the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of woman who could have been armed but weren’t (because of lib policies and brain-washing) during these crimes.

Libs worship death. These women serve only as a statistic to move their agenda forward. They’ll also do everything they can do insure that the murderers of these women never receive the death penalty and are unleashed upon society again to repeat the destructive cycle. It’s job security for libs....

[allblues]

“Something like 3/4 (maybe more) of all gun violence disappears if you don’t count black-perp violence.”

That is fairly accurate if you add Hispanics. Blacks constitute just under 50% of victims and perps. The white and Asian murder rate in this country is very close to the European rates praised by libtards.

[rktman]

Yeah, I kinda do the same and sometimes one or two letters slip through and actually get printed. Of course the online responses (which I can’t respond to due to needing a facebook account) can get pretty nasty. Occasionally someone in the comment section stands up for me. Heheheh! :>} Lucky my “feelings” aren’t easily hurt. Nor am I offended to often.

[heartwood]

Using the crosstab data I linked to earlier in this thread you can see that the number of female murder victims declined by 38% from 1980 to 2011.

Factors leading to decline: older population overall, ghetto crack wars diminished, better trauma care, more police intervention in domestic violence incidents and shelters.

Factors which would tend to push increase: increase in population overall, proportional increase in minority populations with higher crime rates and younger age distribution.

Factors not supported or suggested by data from crosstab charts: SSRI use.

[heartwood]

Sorry - I see your comments were more pertinent to the thread you linked to than to this one.

[FreedomPoster]

Any time you seen the term “gun violence” used, expect it to be from someone who has a gun-grabber mentality who does not really care about violent crime in general. The UK has higher violent crime rates than we do, for instance, and considerably so. This apparently doesn’t matter to the “gun violence” crowd.

[rktman]

Yup, it’s only guns. Everything else gets a pass. I wonder if they’re gonna use the old “2 millions times more likely if there’s a gun in the house” canard.

[SZonian]

This paper is relatively conservative...the editorial staff are a pretty no nonsense group of folks...

I use a simple tactic, I don’t subscribe nor do I purchase any papers throughout the week to deal with any replies nor be tempted to get into a debate. It’s like shooting a nuke off and not having to deal with any of the fallout.

These go into the Sunday print edition...the paper instituted a paywall a couple of years back, so I don’t know if they post them online or not since I won’t pay.

[SZonian]

No worries, I was just sharing...my comment/post probably isn’t pertinent to this thread, but it was kinda on topic.

[VRW Conspirator]

Larry Elder says that women who are for gun control is like chickens cheering for Colonel Sanders.

[rktman]

Out home town paper is a gannett paper so it’s owned by the same assclowns as usatoday. Lib? Uh, heck yeah. We only get it cause Momma wants the coupons. LOL! Sometimes you gotta pick your battles.