[in front of a protesting crowd, two characters are talking]
[blue, serious] Violence is never the solution
[purple, smug] Agreed, let's disarm the police
[blue is now shown angrily gesticulating, sweating bullets]
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Let's get some stats, shall we?
Since 1982, in the US, about 1130 people have died from mass shootings.
American police in that same amount of time has killed over 38000 people.
The problem has never been AR-15s, or the lack of background checks, or anything of the sort. It's always been the pigs. But liberal suburbans enjoy the benefits of the pigs protecting their property while they kill poorer people, so telling them this makes them stare blankly, or they double down and continue to whine about weapons of war, to which I say: If you're so concerned with weapons of war being in the streets, why does every law banning AR-15s add exemptions to the police?
What about shootings that aren't mass shootings? Why are you not counting those?
Because we have lost more civilians to gun violence than every US soldier in every war ever combined in the last 30 years.
While an interesting statistic, it doesn't really answer the question.
The answer is 1.5 million citizens. That is how much we have lost in the last three decades. The huge amount is the reason we do not talk about it.
Any normal country that was losing the equivalent of a war in population loss every year would be in crisis. It would be a huge issue.
But it is not, we won't talk about it. Congress passed laws so we can't study it. It is taboo because there is something much more important than this huge loss of life.
It's weird as hell that his comment doesn't mention that and is upvoted.
and most of them in red states, despite who gop has been telling thier dimwitted constiuents that blue states have more gun violoence and deaths.