Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "The Other Countries That Have Mass Shootings" video.

  1. The number of gun-related homicides in the US is 62 per million people per year (6.2 per 100,000). Suicides is higher, yes -- but let's remember most school shootings have a suicidal perp.
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  2.  @HarrisonCountyStudio  1. I did not and do not advocate disarming. 2. We live in a society where basic math skills do not exist.
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  3.  @mightyirish  Japan has almost no gun deaths -- a handful per year.
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  4.  @genericusername3029  No. You have the wrong numbers. Mine are correct. And yes, the rate of gun-related suicides is higher than the rate of gun-related homicides; namely, 7.0 per 100,000, hence 70 per million. Check the Feb 2022 compilation at Pew Research, for example.
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  5.  @genericusername3029  Your original post spoke of the risk of being shot, fatally or nonfatally. That is easily 1.5 to 2 times the homicide rate, though with the current firepower, probably closer to 1.5. So, we have to go from 6.2 per 100,000 to over 15.5 per 100,000. Everyone I know has crossed paths with someone who was murdered, every city neighborhood I frequent has had a gun-related homicide.
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  6. We have 62 gun-related homicides per million people in the US; 6.2 per 100,000, in other words.
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  7.  @genericusername3029  No, the actual homicide rate per annum from guns alone (which means shot dead) is nearly twice that number. That doesn't include those shot who survive.
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  8.  @mightyirish  Wrong again. There are almost no gun-related suicides in Japan. What's up with you? This isn't even hard to verify. Why is it even relevant? It has nothing to do with teens or kids, who make up a miniscule number of suicides in Japan. Exhausted, disappointed mid-career men are the typical victim.
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  9.  @genericusername3029  Hence, gun-related deaths, combining suicide and homicide, are 13.2 per 100,000 (132 per million), per year.
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  10.  @genericusername3029  Just in case you were looking at composite figures pre-pandemic, guess what? Woefully outdated. Tragic but true. The period after the economy recovered, more or less, from the Great Recession (2012-13 or so), through 2019 was Shangri-La by comparison.
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  11.  @genericusername3029  A woman directly across the street from me shot her husband accidentally, killed him. A pizza delivery man at the nearest high rise, shot dead, around midnight. A lady coming home from work didn't immediately relinquish her purse, shot and wounded, around 10 pm. Just what comes to mind.
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  12.  @genericusername3029  7 per 100,000 was suicides; 6.2 per 100,000 homicides. Nonfatal shootings are not presumed to be self-inflicted, but inflicted by someone else.
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  13.  @genericusername3029  Right now, homicide is the leading cause of death for children ages one to seventeen in Illinois. Also according to the CDC.
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  14.  @genericusername3029  No, you read it wrong. If you're not going to take the time, and accuse me of changing numbers on top of it (6.2 is the gun homicide rate per 100,000, and 7 is the gun suicide rate --- exactly what I said all along), then I'm not going to waste my time. I'm leaving the States permanently within the next few years, possibly as soon as next year. Not my problem.
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  15.  @genericusername3029  Is everyone high?
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  16.  @genericusername3029  Auto accidents, other accidents (suffocation, drowning), pediatric cancers, congenital abnormalities, and, far less commonly, infectious diseases.
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  17.  Subjugated Gold God Worshipping  blocked
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  18.  @genericusername3029  Ad hom. Pfft! Auto accidents and other accidents used to be how kids died. Now, hundreds of thousands are living with the consequences of having been present in a school during a shooting.
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  19.  @genericusername3029  "Children don't drive." Lol, they are driven.
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  20.  @matthewmencel5978  Yes, exactly. I've seen this brought up many times, through the years. School rampage shootings are hard to predict, but adolescent suicide is not hard. We have some knowledge about that. What has been done about it?
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  21.  @matthewmencel5978  Jonathan Fast wrote a book on school shootings, took a decade to write it, and in a chapter devoted to prevention, only about five pages at the end address guns at all -- and in that section, he first traces the history of the increase in firepower available to people over the past century, and touches on the history of gun control attempts before giving an opinion on it. It is not just about guns. It's about a lot of other things, and then add guns.
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