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Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:30:04 +0200

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Don't you think we should only get an article when there has NOT been a mass shooting in America? No mass shooting is the real news, that's what's special. Mass shootings aren't, they're just part of a normal day in America.

BBC News (World) wrote the following post Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:05:09 +0200

Nine injured in mass shooting in Denver, Colorado https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65888631

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Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:03:09 +0200

Sacha Ligthert 🇳🇱🇬🇧

ligthert@mastodon.nl

@hans Which browser are you using?

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:05:52 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Sacha Ligthert 🇳🇱🇬🇧 DDG on my phone atm, will try it on Firefox on a PC later tonight.

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:32:14 +0200 last edited: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:32:34 +0200

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hub.hubzilla.de

Interesting. For 2020:

Brazil 33,994
Mexico 25,635
United States of America 13,620
Colombia 9,379
Honduras 2.729

Rest of the world all together: 9.661
(with a few south american countries counting around 1,000 death toll, so when you take these out).

So the US has more people killed by guns than the rest of the world minus Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Honduras. And it has only to overtake Brazil and Mexico to win the gold medal of the Dodo* Award.

*: The Dodo is the bird that was extinguished by researchers trying to observe why the flock was so dumb/oblivious to always settle to the same tree - only seconds after one of them was being shot. The experiment eventually ran out of Dodos - which turned out to be the last flock alive...

I wonder what the ratio is of lives saved to lives taken is that justifies the generally allowed private ownership of guns...