The5thHorseman
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
In recent years, though, the number of semiautomatic pistols and assault rifles coming from the US each year has skyrocketed — from just 6,205 in 2003 to more than 66,000 in 2022. While those numbers are a small fraction of US domestic sales, in per capita terms Canada is now the biggest foreign buyer of American rapid-fire weapons.
Over the same two decades, the country’s annual rate of shootings per capita — incidents referred to as “discharge firearm with intent” — surged almost sevenfold. In Saskatchewan, which saw the highest increase, that rate exploded 35-fold since 2003 and is now nearly five times the national average, according to a Bloomberg analysis of national crime data. These concurrent trends — more guns, more shootings — have alarmed Canadian authorities.
I think it would be difficult for anyone to deny that Correlation is apparent.
It appears that an "armed society" may be polite (though Canadians had a good start on that already), but it also one awash in the consequences of promiscuous gun distribution.
I would argue that this is not an export of which this nation should be proud.
And we've done the same in other nations...
Mass US-Made Gun Exports Are Fueling Violence, Shootings Globally https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-us-made-gun-exports-shootings-violence-sig-sauer/?utm_medium=deeplink
Last October, a recently fired police officer walked into his stepson’s nursery school in the remote northeast of Thailand and, in under 30 minutes, killed 23 children and two teachers. Panya Kamrab hacked some of his victims to death with a sugar-cane machete and shot others point blank with a pistol, including three local government employees eating lunch outside the school. The rampage, which left a total of 36 dead, ranks as the worst in Thai history and one of the worst in the world.
The killer’s gun, a Sig Sauer P365 — touted by the company as small enough to easily conceal yet able to hold 13 rounds — had traveled more than 8,000 miles from a factory on New Hampshire’s rocky seacoast to Thailand’s lush Nong Bua Lamphu province. It was part of a growing number of semiautomatic handguns and rifles exported by American gunmakers and linked to violent crimes. With about 400 million civilian firearms owned in the US, companies like Sig are seeking new buyers abroad, and they’ve found an eager ally: The federal government has helped push international sales of rapid-fire guns to record levels.
For an industry whose positive contribution to the economy is insignificant, it sure is afforded a lot of considerstion
this is very much a POLITICAL issue. No need to hide this thread from tear streaked faces, but I am confident that a pretext is at hand.
Maybe if I included
GO WOKE, GO BROKE!
WILL THAT DO?
5.....4....3
A third of guns used in Canadian crimes and then traced by authorities were legally imported from the US. That’s three times the global average
In recent years, though, the number of semiautomatic pistols and assault rifles coming from the US each year has skyrocketed — from just 6,205 in 2003 to more than 66,000 in 2022. While those numbers are a small fraction of US domestic sales, in per capita terms Canada is now the biggest foreign buyer of American rapid-fire weapons.
Over the same two decades, the country’s annual rate of shootings per capita — incidents referred to as “discharge firearm with intent” — surged almost sevenfold. In Saskatchewan, which saw the highest increase, that rate exploded 35-fold since 2003 and is now nearly five times the national average, according to a Bloomberg analysis of national crime data. These concurrent trends — more guns, more shootings — have alarmed Canadian authorities.
I think it would be difficult for anyone to deny that Correlation is apparent.
It appears that an "armed society" may be polite (though Canadians had a good start on that already), but it also one awash in the consequences of promiscuous gun distribution.
I would argue that this is not an export of which this nation should be proud.
And we've done the same in other nations...
Mass US-Made Gun Exports Are Fueling Violence, Shootings Globally https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-us-made-gun-exports-shootings-violence-sig-sauer/?utm_medium=deeplink
Last October, a recently fired police officer walked into his stepson’s nursery school in the remote northeast of Thailand and, in under 30 minutes, killed 23 children and two teachers. Panya Kamrab hacked some of his victims to death with a sugar-cane machete and shot others point blank with a pistol, including three local government employees eating lunch outside the school. The rampage, which left a total of 36 dead, ranks as the worst in Thai history and one of the worst in the world.
The killer’s gun, a Sig Sauer P365 — touted by the company as small enough to easily conceal yet able to hold 13 rounds — had traveled more than 8,000 miles from a factory on New Hampshire’s rocky seacoast to Thailand’s lush Nong Bua Lamphu province. It was part of a growing number of semiautomatic handguns and rifles exported by American gunmakers and linked to violent crimes. With about 400 million civilian firearms owned in the US, companies like Sig are seeking new buyers abroad, and they’ve found an eager ally: The federal government has helped push international sales of rapid-fire guns to record levels.
For an industry whose positive contribution to the economy is insignificant, it sure is afforded a lot of considerstion
this is very much a POLITICAL issue. No need to hide this thread from tear streaked faces, but I am confident that a pretext is at hand.
Maybe if I included
GO WOKE, GO BROKE!
WILL THAT DO?
5.....4....3
