In the last 30 years:
100% of mass killers have been males. "Mass killing" = deliberately targeting 4 or more in 1 attack.
100% of mass killers have broken existing laws and regulations in planning and preparing their attacks. Laws don't stop mass killers.
90% of mass killers come from homes without a male role model to teach boys self-control.
70% of people killed in mass attacks in the last 100 years were NOT killed with a gun.
50% of US families currently have no father in the home.
15% of mass killings could not have been prevented by gun control laws, because they were achieved without using any guns. Includes all three of the deadliest attacks on US soil.
0.00001% of US adults with access to a gun committed a mass killing in any given year. (20 mass killers per year, out of 200 million adults with gun access, or 1 in 10 million.)
0.0000017% of US adults with mental illness committed a mass killing in any given year (1 in 56 million adults with mental illness)
1970s Decade when numbers of US homes without a male role model began to spike.
1990s Decade when US mass killings began. Also when the children born in the 1970s came of age.
Conclusion: It’s not more gun control that is needed, it’s more self-control.
Details:
190 million US adults own or have access to a gun. There have been about 20 mass killing attacks per year since 1990. Do the math: 1 in 10 million US adults with gun access has committed a mass killing.
1 in 7 mass killings (15%) involved a weapon other than a gun. Examples: knives, explosives, poison, automobiles, aircraft, etc. Therefore, sequestering EVERY gun in America would only stop 85% of mass killings AT BEST.
56 million US adults suffer some form of mental illness in any given year. Only 1 mass killer
was diagnosed with mental illness before his mass attack. Therefore, 1 in 56 million US adults with mental disease has committed a mass killing.
The three deadliest attacks of any type on US soil in the last 100 years (total: 5571 deaths):
911 (3000 killed using aircraft commandeered with utility knives--no guns were used.)
Pearl Harbor (2403 killed, mostly by explosive torpedoes. A few may have been shot by attacking aircraft, using machine guns. Exact figures are not available.)
Oklahoma City (168 killed; 500 injured, using home-made explosives in a truck bomb.
No gun was fired in the attack)
In contrast, 2462 have been killed in mass shootings, with the deadliest being 56 in one attack at Orlando Florida. These are terrible numbers, but they pale in comparison to the 5571 non-gun mass killing deaths. Guns are not the problem; violence is the problem.
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