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2013-12-21 -Land of the Free

Brandon Webb: The Gun Problem in America

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Posted by badanov 2013-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 They're too expensive, can't get enough of them and the ammo costs too much, that's the problem!

Posted by Skidmark 2013-12-21 07:11|| 2013-12-21 07:11|| Front Page Top

#2 The so-called "gun problem" has little if anything to do with crime. A government which gives millions of tax dollars each year to 'Planned Parenthood' cannot possibly be concerned about the loss of human life.

Firearms offer personal security [that is the job of big government] and are a proven, long term financial investment. The little people are not supposed to profit from investments, especially investments which cannot be tampered with by the tax man. Financial investments, thriftiness, and savings makes one independent of government and provides freedom from oppression and security.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-21 07:22|| 2013-12-21 07:22|| Front Page Top

#3 In 2008 America had over 12,000 deaths at the end of a firearm, compared to 11 in Japan

Japan is pretty much homogenous culturally and racially. First remove those deaths that occurred in incidents of self defense. Second remove all those associated with self hyphenated ethnic groups. Third, then do a comparison with a similar ethnic group back in the old home counties (1.5 million Japanese out of 320 million Americans is not a viable sample to compare the bulk of the American population with other than to make an politically charged comparison - try using European numbers).

Posted by P2kontheroad 2013-12-21 09:27|| 2013-12-21 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I shied away from Brandon Webb when he began backing the Obama administration's explanation of events concerning Benghazi. I used to visit his SOFREP site faithfully, but no more.

Posted by OCCD 2013-12-21 09:54|| 2013-12-21 09:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Piers Morgan.
My fellow American.
Gimme the keys duude.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-12-21 11:55|| 2013-12-21 11:55|| Front Page Top

#6 1.Race and homicide. According to the United States Department of Justice: Blacks accounted for 52.5% of homicides, whites 45.3% and Native Americans and Asians 2.2%, from 1980 to 2008. The offending rate for blacks was almost 8 times higher than whites, and the victim rate 6 times higher. Most murders were intraracial, with 84% of white homicide victims murdered by whites, and 93% of black victims murdered by blacks.
2.Hispanics statistically treated as whites. Hispanics folded into whites in UCR (Uniform Crime Reports collected monthly by the FBI0. The UCR classifies most Hispanics into the "white" category. The NCVS classifies some Hispanic criminals as "white" and some as "other race". The victim categories for the NCVS are more distinct [The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) program, established in 1972, is a national survey of a representative sample of households in the United States which covers the frequency of crime victimization and the characteristics and consequences of victimization. The primary purpose behind the NCVS program is to gather information on crimes that were not reported to police, though information is also collected on reported crimes].
3.Youth Gang Crime. The "National Youth Gang Survey Analysis" (2009) state that of gang members, 49% are Hispanic/Latino, 35% are African-American/black, 9% are white, and 7% are other race/ethnicity. According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, in the year 2008 black youths, who make up 16% of the youth population, accounted for 52% of juvenile violent crime arrests, including 58.5% of youth arrests for homicide and 67% for robbery. Black youths were overrepresented in all offense categories except DUI, liquor laws and drunkenness.
4. A cultural and racial problem. Homicide tends to be a cultural and racial problem in the US. It is not clear how the US homicide rate compares to other countries if culture and race are considered.
5.Sources. FBI UC, and Race and Crime

Posted by JohnQC 2013-12-21 11:56|| 2013-12-21 11:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Repeal the NFA. Why does no one run on that platform?

Posted by Iblis 2013-12-21 12:47|| 2013-12-21 12:47|| Front Page Top

#8 His mother and I did decide to take away all his violent shooting video games, not a good thing for a ten year old to practice taking head shots, and this could potentially lead to mental health issues, better safe than sorry I say.

A wise move, considering he has a family history of wetting themselves when exposed to CNN.

Sounds like the kind of a-hole who watches Cars 2 and cries over the written letter, but then never realizes that cars cannot write letters, even in Cars.

After all it was once within our constitutional rights to own and enslave other human beings.

It was? Where? In the traditional sense of any culture enslaving any peoples, the slaves are not allowed to express their opinions, own their own property, experience privacy, openly worship, and for Moses' sake have weapons. Every single bit of the Bill of Rights protects individuals from slavery, and indeed sets into motion the freeing of New World slaves, a practice which predates British colonialists never mind the Revolution, Confederation, then our Constitution.

You can take your whimpering personally reasons for training your kids with skills and shove them up their potty holes. Do you regret teaching your kids about crossing the street because Car Culture? One of the primos in those video games is the stealth kill via knife or whatnot, do you regret teaching your kids about tableware?

Can't just go after gun control. Your tiny fascist is showing. Its quite dinky.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-12-21 12:55|| 2013-12-21 12:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Mass shootings in America have become something of a national past time.

In a nation pushing 300,000,000 people, there's one every nine months or so.

This clown needs to be taught what "mistaken vividness" means.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-12-21 15:27|| 2013-12-21 15:27|| Front Page Top

#10 In Japan people don't have guns, so of course that isn't what they're using to kill themselves. Instead, they most commonly hang themselves, or jump to their deaths, whether off mountainsides or in front of trains. Men kill themselves when they lose their jobs, or retire, or can't repay loans, or are divorced; teens and young adults kill themselves because they didn't get into the college of their choice, or because they didn't get a job, or because of love, and always, at all ages, because life is too hard and they are depressed. And beyond that the young people aren't getting married or having children, or even allowing themselves to fall in love, because what is the point when they can't afford an apartment or the demands of independent adulthood? So the suicide rate can be expected to continue to increase as the population ever more rapidly ages.

Last year the death rate in Japan rose above the birth rate for the first time, with worse to follow, as outlying villages empty, and a typical single person's efficiency apartment in the outskirts of Tokyo is too cozy to have even a single visitor. Trailing daughter #2 spent eight months in Tokyo on an internship this year, and although she is very glad she went, her stories are full of distressing details.

And, as it happens, hanging is second most common method of suicide in the U.S. but the whole gun death thing needs to be parsed carefully. Among whites, as I recall, most gun deaths are the result of suicides, whereas among blacks most gun deaths are of young men either in or related to gangs during crimes, drive-bys, and shootouts. So to address the gun death problem in the white community you'd want to address depression, whereas in the black community reducing criminality and illegally acquired guns would significantly reduce the problem. But to reduce criminality, abysmal education and an anti-education culture would have to be addressed concurrently with a significant increase in entry level, skills-training jobs that would allow the males in the community particularly to hope for achievement beyond the neighborhood gangs... among other societal changes to discourage welfarism and single motherhood.

Schools and jobs would be just as good for poor whites, but people tend not to break out the death statistics that way. And to do that, of course, we would have to send/drive home all the illegal residents crowding out the citizenry at the bottom of the work skills ladder.

As for mass shootings, most of those in the post-Reagan era turn out to have been done by paranoid schizophrenics whose parents had been frantically trying to find a mental hospital accepting patients for lifelong care, even as the few remaining mental hospitals are looking at closure. Open more mental hospitals and allow involuntary commission of the most egregious cases, and not only the number of mass murders but the number of family murders would go down significantly. (See one current proposal here.)

Are you ready to tackle all of that, Mr. Webb, instead of blithering on in glittering generalities?

Posted by trailing wife 2013-12-21 15:51|| 2013-12-21 15:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Absolutely TW.

Not everybody enjoys that nice, safe controlled environment so pomply demonstrated, security or emotional wise.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-12-21 22:09|| 2013-12-21 22:09|| Front Page Top

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