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Our country has a gun violence problem and we can either refuse to acknowledge it or create solutions that keep our families safe while protecting our freedoms. According to Merriam-Webster, “neglect implies giving insufficient attention to something that merits one’s attention.”
My experience as an engineer has taught me to make data-based decisions, so let’s consider the data. In the U.S., 100 people die from gun violence every day and our gun homicide rate is 25 times that of other high-income countries according to a 2016 study published in the American Journal of Medicine. We see the evidence in daily news headlines and cannot continue to be negligent. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(3/19/2020)
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More data:
The murder rate has declined in the last several decades.
We DO NOT have a gun problem in America.
An engineer, are you? Gawd, I hope you didn't design any bridges I need to drive over ....... |
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PHORTO
(3/19/2020)
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Ms. Thomas is grasping for the "rose-colored glasses" solution instead of facing reality.
The reality is that our rights are under attack, and that the 'data' she cites is suspect because it is agenda-driven.
We cannot deprive rights and protect them at the same time.
Ms. Thomas needs to wake up and smell the coffee. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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