NON-BREAKING non-news 39 US murders 6-5-2017

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Some fun gun facts. Amazingly guns are even stolen out of lots of unlocked vehicles.
https://www.thetrace.org/2015/12/gun-violence-stats-2015/

From 2005-2015, 71 Americans were killed in terrorist attacks on US soil. 301,797 were killed by gun violence during the same period.
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A remarkable 75 percent of children killed with guns this year have been under the age of 12. Since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, three years ago, an American child under 12 has died by intentional or accidental gunfire every other day, according to analysis by NBC News. And those children are far more likely to die from guns held by family members and acquaintances than strangers,
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Children younger than 3 have gotten their hands on guns and shot someone at least 59 times this year,
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Domestic violence assaults with firearms are 12 times more likely to result in death than those without them.
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The advisories echoed from sheriffs in Jacksonville, Florida; St. Louis; and Lafayette, Louisiana: Lock up your guns. More than 400 firearms were stolen from cars in Duval County, Florida, this year — and 60 percent of those were from unlocked cars. In St. Louis, reports of gun theft were up 70 percent in August, and cars and trucks were targeted far more often than homes.

https://www.thetrace.org/2016/12/gun-violence-statistics-2016/

At least 6,875 people were fatally shot by romantic partners from 2006 to 2014, according to FBI and state crime data analyzed by the Associated Press. Eighty percent of those victims were women. That works out to 554 fatal shootings of American women by a current or former romantic partner each year during the nine years examined, or, one every 16 hours.
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Between 300,000 and 600,000 guns are stolen every year.
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More than 400 firearms were stolen from cars in Duval County, Florida, this year — and 60 percent of those were from unlocked cars.
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And as The Trace’s Brian Freskos reported, the number of guns swiped from vehicles is on the rise in many major American cities. Atlanta police recorded more than 800 reports of firearms stolen from cars and trucks in 2015, more than twice as many as five years before. Georgia is one of several states that has loosened restrictions on carrying guns in vehicles, and has made it easier to lawfully leave them there while their owners are at work.
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141 children died in unintentional or accidental shootings last year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

505 deaths due to accidental or negligent discharge of a firearm,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_the_United_States

In 2007, 2,340 deaths were caused by intimate partner violence—making up 14% of all homicides. 70% of these deaths were females and 30% were males.

And only 34 were killed yesterday:
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours

 

[whichphilosophy]

It might, actually.

A major contributor to the elimination of the notorious violence at English football matches was a media agreement not to show the violence on TV.

Young men being ultra-violent for the fame it brings, regardless of personal harm, can be kept from violence by having their actions widely ignored.

What's the point of committing a terrorist atrocity that only the handful of victims and onlookers, plus the investigating police, know about?

Yeah--for many years now I've been saying we should limit news coverage of terrorism.

I'm not saying to censor them, but rather to limit the amount of coverage. Something bad happens, they report it. Once. That's that. No going over and over it, no "get the latest on <x>" teasers etc. They can present follow-up reports when there is more information but the size of the report must be consistent with how much news there is, not the size of the total story--they don't get to redo the whole broadcast to present one more bit of information.

Terrorists want publicity but it is up to the press and this sells news. This is the downside of a Free Press. If we didn't report it we would see this in the fringe press online.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Yeah--for many years now I've been saying we should limit news coverage of terrorism.

I'm not saying to censor them, but rather to limit the amount of coverage. Something bad happens, they report it. Once. That's that. No going over and over it, no "get the latest on <x>" teasers etc. They can present follow-up reports when there is more information but the size of the report must be consistent with how much news there is, not the size of the total story--they don't get to redo the whole broadcast to present one more bit of information.

Terrorists want publicity but it is up to the press and this sells news. This is the downside of a Free Press. If we didn't report it we would see this in the fringe press online.

I'm not trying to hide it anyway, just limit the size of the coverage. Thus there's nothing to drive it to the fringe press.