Easter Weekend marred by "gun violence" in three separate mass shootings.

[westwall]

rural area and at a mall.

Blue cities.

DURRRRRRR

 

[Penelope]

But they don't avoid deaths by other means.

republicans are easy on assault weapons and guns. anyone can get them.

 

[Penelope]

Blue cities.

DURRRRRRR

SC is a red state. What is happening to republicans I know they let anyone has guns.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

2 Mass Shooting in SC , a red state.

Columbia is a blue city

 

[bigrebnc1775]

republicans are easy on assault weapons and guns. anyone can get them.

Tell another lie. Assault weapons have been restricted since 1989 and require you pay a 250.00 tax to have one if you can find one.

 

[westwall]

SC is a red state. What is happening to republicans I know they let anyone has guns.

The black gangsters shot up a BLUE city you lying twit.

 

[Cardinal Carminative]

It seems there was a mass outbreak of guns hopping out of Easter baskets causing multiple injuries and fatalities this weekend. It certainly nothing to do with the tons of illegal drugs being shipped into the country, the breakdown of nuclear families or the mental illness that is rampant in our country. Oh no, it's those damn guns again.

3 mass shootings occur in the U.S. during Easter weekend, leaving two 2 dead

Authorities in South Carolina are investigating a shooting at a nightclub early Sunday that wounded at least nine people. It was the second mass shooting in the state and the third in the nation during the Easter holiday weekend.

www.pbs.org

That's OK. It's America and it's Easter!

 

[bigrebnc1775]

That's OK. It's America and it's Easter!

What if we disarmed every black in America?
Because BLM!!!!!

 

[M14 Shooter]

, but our gun homicide rate is 25 times higher than other high-income countries.1The difference is easy access to guns. This connection is not just theoretical. US states with weaker gun laws and higher gun ownership rates have higher rates of mass shootings.

Whoever told you this lied
And you let them.

 

[M14 Shooter]

2 Mass Shooting in SC , a red state.

Both took plance in blue cities, perpetrated by black gang members.

 

[M14 Shooter]

republicans are easy on assault weapons and guns. anyone can get them.

It should be easy for people to exercise their rights, so... duh.

 

[DudleySmith]

Less than 1% of all murders can hardly be called "massacres"

Gee maybe if we actually enforced the gun laws we have on the books we would have less crime and murder.

Crazy right?

How many years did the thug George Floyd get for armed robbery and pistol whipping a pregnant woman? Nothing, even with a previous record for gun thuggery.

 

[meaner gene]

Agree 100%. Of course that would require quite a tax hike to build all of the new prisons we would need and in a lot of places, states cannot staff the prisons they have already.

Our prisons are filled with people that never should have been sent to prison, while people who should be locked up walk the streets..

Texas upholds sentence for woman who didnât know she was ineligible to vote

Crystal Mason was previously sentenced to five years in prison for a mistaken vote that was not counted

www.theguardian.com

Four years ago, Mason was on supervised release, similar to probation, for a federal felony conviction related to tax fraud. She didn’t know that Texas prohibits felons from voting until they finish their sentence entirely. Mason voted in the last presidential election at the urging of her mother and cast a provisional ballot when poll workers couldn’t find her name on the voter registration rolls. The ballot was never counted because Mason was not an eligible voter.

A Texas appeals court on Thursday upheld a five-year prison sentence for a woman who was convicted of illegally voting even though she didn’t know she was ineligible when she went to the polls in 2016.

Meanwhile violent felons

Convicted Felon Sentenced to Probation for Possessing a Firearm

PROVIDENCE, RI – A 33 year-old Providence man previously convicted of drug trafficking and assaulting several police officers was sentenced today to 3 years probation, the first six months to be served in home confinement with electronic monitoring, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

www.justice.gov

A 33 year-old Providence man previously convicted of drug trafficking and assaulting several police officers was sentenced today to 3 years probation, ... for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

 

[2aguy]

It's funny you bring up other topics.

Mental illness.

2020 Access to Care Data

www.mhanational.org

Access to mental health care (color of party that won the state in the 2020 presidential election

1) Vermont
2) Massachusetts
3) Rhode Island
4) Iowa
5) Maine (they split this, but Democrats got more votes so I'm putting it blue)

Bottom 5

51) Texas
50) Georgia
49) Nevada
48) Mississippi
47) South Carolina

Obviously this isn't just a simple case of Republican/Democrat, never is. However Georgia is more a Republican state, Republican governor, 8 Republicans, 6 Democrats in the US House, two Democrat federal Senators, but the Georgia state House and Senate are both Republican. And the presidency election in Georgia was won by 12,000 votes for the Democrats, first time since 1992 it went Democrat.

Nevada on the other hand is strongly Democrat.

Iowa is a Republican state.

However the trend is pretty much more towards Democrats spending more money dealing with mental health

2) Breakdown of the family.

This is a much, much harder subject. Mostly because it'd depend on what you saw as the causes for the breakdown of the family in the US.

However we can look at the states with the most and least single parents.

States with the most single-parent households

Stacker looks at the states with the most single-parent households, using data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey 2018.

stacker.com

Most
1) Mississippi (again)
2) Louisiana
3) Georgia (again)
4) New Mexico
5) Texas (again)

Least
51) Hawaii
50) Montana
49) Utah
48) New Hampshire
47) North Dakota.

For the most, it seems obvious that there's a repeat of states. Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, and how many are going to end up at the top of the murder states?

For the least, there's Utah for religious reasons, I'd say. Some of those states are quite rural as well, which is going to reduce the chances of single parenthood.

3) drugs

The Ten Most Drug-Addicted States in America

Addiction affects people across the United States, but some states are struggling more than others. Find out the ten most drug-addicted states in America.

www.addictions.com

This is going to show something quite different. The states with the most drug abuse.

1) DC
2) Vermont
3) Colorado
4) Delaware
5) Rhode Island.

But then let's look at gun crime.

Gun death and violence in the United States by state - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Gun murder rate top 5

1) Louisiana
2) Missouri
3) South Carolina
4) Delaware
5) Alaska

Georgia's in at number 7, Texas as 18, Mississippi at number 9

So what does this tell us?

Probably that this is a very, very complex topic.

That just because a state has this or that or even two things on your list, doesn't mean it's going to come out as the state with the most murder.

Other things. Urban areas, or especially ghetto areas. Areas that the government has given up on. The whole "in America everyone can make it" rings in my ears. Yes, in the US every could potentially make it. No, not everyone TOGETHER can make it.

The problem here is that you're dealing with people of different intelligence. Certain people simply aren't going to be business people, or they're not going to be able to get out by being a sports star etc etc. Some people are born into poverty and even working hard, they're going to struggle. If you become a single parent, it might not be your fault, and yet it's going to stop you advancing. In certain states that appear at the wrong end of this list there's a problem with race and how black people are treated by their own governments, by potential employers and many other things.

Mostly for me it's about ATTITUDE toward government. If people see government as just electing people to take the cash and entertain, then government doesn't work well and things get worse in society. When society is directed, and has clear goals, by the government of the state, and even federal representatives, then things work better.

Germany, for example, has a lot of different ethnic groups, especially Turks and Russians, and yet it tries to look after all people, giving them decent education, giving them decent health care including mental health care.

But guns are still an issue. Create all these problems and then put guns into the mix and you get the disaster that is the USA.

Of course, in the Res states you have democrat party controlled Blue cities that create the majority of the gun crime directly caused by anti- police policies and policies that release the most violent gun offenders over and over again……

Our gun murder and gun crime problem is a direct result of the democrats who control these blue cities…

 

[Vegasgiants]

What if we disarmed every black in America?
Because BLM!!!!!

I think you have some cotton that needs picking. Lol

 

[Vegasgiants]

Of course, in the Res states you have democrat party controlled Blue cities that create the majority of the gun crime directly caused by anti- police policies and policies that release the most violent gun offenders over and over again……

Our gun murder and gun crime problem is a direct result of the democrats who control these blue cities…

Let's be clear. State law has jurisdiction over city laws. The state can make any law it wants apply to any city


It's on the state

 

[M14 Shooter]

Let's be clear. State law has jurisdiction over city laws. The state can make any law it wants apply to any city

Did you read what he said?
"Blue cities that create the majority of the gun crime directly caused by anti- police policies and policies that release the most violent gun offenders over and over again…"
States pass laws regarding gun control, but cities decide on their enforcement and prosecutorial policies.
if those policies lead to the increased crime in those cities, it's on the cities not the states.

 

[Vegasgiants]

Did you read what he said?
"Blue cities that create the majority of the gun crime directly caused by anti- police policies and policies that release the most violent gun offenders over and over again…"
States pass laws regarding gun control, but cities decide on their enforcement and prosecutorial policies.
if those policies lead to the increased crime in those cities, it's on the cities not the states.

Actually states can pass laws that allow for no discretion. Sone have


And in every country on earth most crime is in the cities

 

[M14 Shooter]

Actually states can pass laws that allow for no discretion. Sone have

Examples?
Be sure to provide citations.

And in every country on earth most crime is in the cities

Really.
Why is that?

 

[Vegasgiants]

Examples?
Be sure to provide citations.

Really.
Why is that?

3 strikes law in California.



Cities provide the most victims and opportunities for crime with also being the place easier to hide from the police. Cities also are where gangs are