Here are states ranked by death by firearms.
1. Mississippi
2. Louisiana
3. Wyoming
4. Missouri
5. Alabama
Right wingers love to bellow about Chicago. Illinois is no. 13, Arkansas is no. 8.
Somebody shove a microphone in Governor Sandra Hucklebee's face and ask what she is planning to do about that.
Shooting death rates have skyrocketed since the pandemic, in these states in particular.
www.cbsnews.com
As always when you look at death by firearms you mix suicides and homicides and get a confused picture.
Yes, it is a muddled picture because lots of people don't realize that a majority of gun related firearm deaths are intentionally self-inflicted. To be clear, this shouldn't be used to support firearm ownership.
Well golly, firearms aren't that dangerous. Over half the number of people who died from them did it on purpose by their own hand
Wyoming is #41 in murders. 4 of your 5 states are in the top 6 of murders, though.
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Gun related homicides are
a problem an acceptable cost of the 2nd Amendment across America.
Given the nature of bipolar people, their frequency, and the reality that everyone is "up and down" from time to time, I think it's dangerous to be as binary as this about "on purpose by their own hand" particularly in the judgement over whether they "deserved" it.
Some conditions are of the sort that, even though they MUST eventually be yielded, if we are to be considered ethical people, if they are consistently sustained for reasonable reasons, are often not the product of any tight process that is either sustained or containing reasonable reasons.
In the consideration of suicide or most conflicts of violence, for example, there is the issue that often the desire to do violence is transient and fleeting, the result of inflamed tempers or inflamed self-loathing.
In some respects, it is better to force premeditation upon the act of violence to either self or others. I should have to meditate on whether I actually find life so intolerable that I would wish to kill myself, longer than merely a heat of the moment action.
I should be capable of accepting and taking the time to take up responsibility for the things that I do.
Having a tool that is available, having the means so available that premeditation may be circumscribed is the problem in both a senseless murder and a senseless suicide.
The decision to pick up a gun and end a life needs to be a solemn and level one, based on long judgement and on-transitory grievance, even if that judgement is "I must die, because my inability to be happy and my history of unavoidable pain indicates a future where my misery splashes on others and I am incapable of contributing positivity to those I love," or "people must eat, and I have no food. Acquiring bullets is possible for me in a way acquiring money in this moment is not; I either use the gun to acquire food, or I die, thus I shall hunt," or even "From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants, and thus war is the due course, and this is the grisly tool of that reality."
This I think is better than allowing snap decisions on the use of lethal force.