Can someone help explain this to me please?

[AndyS]

In the last day or so 28 Palestinians were killed and 122 were wounded in what amounts to outright warfare.

Meanwhile right here in the good ole' US of A on Mother's Day weekend there were 260 shootings in 37 states that killed 94 and wounded 236.

Those Israeli Defense Forces are such pikers!

Why is it that a country at war can only kill 28 and wound 122 when the Land Of The Free that isn't at war with anybody out performs them 4 to one?

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH US?

WHEN ARE WE AS A COUNTRY GOING TO DEAL WITH THIS?

(Because somebody is going to ask for 'link please':https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/10/weekend-gun-violence/)

[Hoyt]

1. We've got to deal with gunz and crime. But politicians don't have the guts.

[Towlie]

2. People who expect links sure are a pain in the ass, aren't they? Why can't they just take your word?

 
?

Maybe it's because people who believe everything they're told without question don't come here. They watch Fox News instead.

[AndyS]

3. Take my word? About GUNZ? 🤣

[Goonch]

4. ;-{)

[AndyS]

5. Reminds me of the scene from Lord of War

[marie999]

6. And our kill ratio is even better than theirs.

Either they are not trying or their troops need more practice.

[Pepsidog]

7. Only way we deal with it is by electing dems to local, state, and federal office.

[intheflow]

8. I think your ratios are off.

28/122 Palestinians killed or wounded out of 4.685 million (2019)

94/236 Americans killed or wounded out of a population of 328.2 million (2019)


Look, I suck at math and cannot even tell you what the real percentage difference is in terms of lives lost and wounded, but I'm pretty sure the ratio isn't 4:1 given the unequal population densities. Math DUers! Back me up here!

Also, who says this country isn't at war? We have several concurrent wars happening right now: racist police violence, antivaxxers, and the Q idiots. At least two of those radical groups worship guns.

[Larissa]

9. This is America

We are a country awash in untold suffering, violence and death to our citizens because of firearms. We suffer a cabal of warped "leadership" unable and incapable of fixing this situation. We are the horror of the world because of our junky jones for guns. We can trigger PTSD in ourselves just by watching the daily carnage on the nightly news: one minute blood splattered walls at a child's birthday party; the next minute cutesy panda videos. Countries, such as China, have warned their citizens about traveling to the USA because of our culture of mass shootings. Our status as the Mass Shooting Capital of the World remains unchallenged. Mass shooting drills, "what to do" instructions have become the fabric of America. Even the slaughter of school children isn't enough to ignite change. Some of us are compelled to think the unthinkable, the "what if?" What if I'm caught in a hail of bullets. For me, it depends upon the weapon being used. Assault rifle? It's better for total "lights out." People don't really "survive" assault rifles well. Your insides get shredded; some may never walk or work again; you are a psychological wreck. Check out the stories of the victims who "survived:"

This is America.

AP: One year after Vegas shooting, survivors describe new normal
https://apnews.com/article/shootings-north-america-us-news-las-vegas-nv-state-wire-cb30f2a1674840cca0b5d3162ee0e50c

The Atlantic: What I saw treating the victims from Parkland should change the debate on guns
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/what-i-saw-treating-the-victims-from-parkland-should-change-the-debate-on-guns/553937/

[AndyS]

10. Make this an OP. Copy and paste in it's entirety. The survivors need to be recognized

and remembered. The media concentrates on the dead when the wounded go unnoticed and live every day of the rest of their lives with the aftermath of somebody else's fetish.