Your seriously considering heart disease and being shot dead by some random blueberry? Eating fast food is their choice so if you get a heart condition you brought it on yourself. Unless you consider those kids and teachers turning up to school them asking to be shot dead then they did nothing to bring this horrific crime against themselves. There is a humongous fucking difference between handing someone a cheeseburger and handing them a gun surely you can see that.
Really? You
really don't see the similarities? How about the fact that research throughout several countries across the globe have proven the dangers of processed meat and linked heart disease
directly to the ways those fast food chains produced their food? Or how about the fact that there are still no laws or any obligation on behalf of the fast food chains to list the ingredients of their product like virtually every other organic product in the country? Instead, the make them go to their websites to find ingredient listings and they know no one's going to do that. They also get a pass marketing their dangerous product to children, unlike alcohol and tobacco. And despite the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by their products each year, none of them ever get charged with manslaughter. I'm sorry, but I really don't see how you don't see the comparison. "Choosing to eat McDonalds" is not the point. I seriously doubt any of the people who DIE from it CHOSE TO DIE either. Fast food and guns are similar in that they are allowed to be circulated legally throughout the country, except the former is legal for all ages to purchase and kills a hundred times more people.
The difference between Canada/Switzerland and America is obviously that theres crazy blueberries in those countries, Theres countries with bigger populations than America, countries with more guns and crime than America but yet America see's so many more mall/school shootings. Whether is the whole 'right to bare arms' balony or whatever else Americans as a whole just cant handle guns.
OK.... wow. How the hell do YOU know that Switzerland and Canada have less "crazy blueberries"? Seriously, I mean did you conduct your own head count? Did you go door to door in all 3 countries and jot down a list of every single mentally unstable person you encountered? That's an assumption you pulled out of your ass and you know it.
Here's an
actual statistic for you:
In terms of total HOMICIDE rate, America is ranked #107th in the world with a rate of 4.2.
Top 10 countries in homicide rate:
1. Honduras 91.6
2. El Salvador 69.2
3. Ivory Coast 56.9
4. Jamaica 52.2
5. Venezuela 45.1
6. Belize 41.4
7. US Virgin Islands 39.2
8. Guatemala 38.5
9. Saint Kitts and Nevis 38.2
10. Zambia 38.0
And in terms of TOTAL deaths, America isn't a Top 10 country either. We're actually surpassed by BOTH super powers Russia and China, as well as our North American neighbors Mexico. Brazil is the world leader with 40,974 homicides per year.
So, even though America kills more people with GUNS, we do not have an extraordinary issue with homicide in general. Take the guns away, and people still find a way to kill... clearly evidenced by the 106 other countries that you're more likely to be killed in.
And mass shootings were NEVER common here until 2012 when gun control became a political agenda of the Democratic party. You can interpret that implication however you please. Asia and Oceania have more documented mass murder sprees than North and South America combined, so you're wrong about that as well.
You are quite an unbelievable tool. It's like talking to a brick wall, but a wall with a truly disagreeable nature. I'm done wasting time with someone who cant even bring themselves to debate something like a grown up.
I'm glad you finally resorted to petty name-calling and admitted you aren't on my level with this conversation.
Now please leave.
erson ratio than the US yet homicide is almost non-existent here. Your whole theory of "more guns=more gun crime" is naive and flat out WRONG. The murder rate will only decrease when the US culture changes, not the laws. You British people just love comparing yourselves to us when you want to pretend to understand us, yet so quick to differentiate when you don't approve of something in our country. You call me condescending... when was the last time you even visited the US?
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