According to the Washington Post: “Average Americans routinely shoot each other over minor annoyances, data show.”<\/p>\n
Yeah, it’s those gun-crazy East Asians who are always shooting people over trivial annoyances. Just your average Americans. <\/p>\n
Washington Post<\/a>: <\/p>\n 5,484.<\/p>\n That’s the number of lives lost to gun violence this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive<\/a>, a nonprofit organization that compiles real-time information on shootings in the United States.<\/p>\n The 5,484 dead from gun violence excludes suicides by gun, which are nearly double the number<\/a> of gun homicides in any given year.<\/p>\n The 5,484 gun deaths work out to about 36 every day in 2016. They include the 132 people killed over the Memorial Day weekend. That may seem like a lot of carnage for a long weekend, but it’s considerably fewer deaths than the 182 over the Labor Day weekend<\/a> last fall.<\/p>\n Although the shootings in public places draw the most media attention — like the murder-suicide at the University of California at Los Angeles<\/a> this week — the Gun Violence Archive’s numbers are a reminder that most gun homicides take place out of the public eye, barely noticed, a simple fact of life in a country with one of the highest gun ownership rates<\/a> in the world.<\/p>\n Much of the daily drumbeat of gun violence involves drug gangs and turf battles in poor city neighborhoods — Chicago is the current poster child<\/a> for those shootings, with 69 of them over Memorial Day weekend. But average Americans nationwide routinely shoot and kill each other over the most petty of disagreements, including:<\/p>\n These incidents all happened in May. They were initially compiled, among many other incidents, by Parents Against Gun Violence<\/a>, an advocacy group lobbying for gun safety.<\/p>\n It’s often said that an armed society is a polite society<\/a>. But it’s striking how some of us use guns to shoot and kill over trifles, issues that potentially could be resolved by being a little more polite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to the Washington Post: “Average Americans routinely shoot each other over minor annoyances, data show.” Yeah, it’s those gun-crazy East Asians who are always shooting people over trivial annoyances. Just your average Americans. Washington Post: 5,484. That’s the number … Continue reading \n