More
Lies from the Presstitutes
By Paul
Craig Roberts
March
29, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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The
shameless liars that comprise the US media
intentionally exaggerated the marchers against
“gun violance” by four times the acutal number.
Why?
Why are
the media presstitutes involved in advocacy of
agendas and not in reporting factual news?
Recent
polls show that a majority of Americans believe
that gun ownership makes people safer. Americans
do not believe that people should be denied
safety because of an occasional nutcase or a
staged shooting to advance the gun control
agenda. Indeed, they wonder who is behind the
gun control agenda. They wonder about the
dumbshits who are protesting the Second
Amendment instead of Washington’s rush into
conflict with Russia.
I have
no doubt that gun control groups are organized
by agents of the police state. The United States
is falling apart. All of the increase in income
and wealth is going to the One Percent. Everyone
else is hurting more each day. See Chris Hedges,
for example:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49082.htm
The
vast majority of Americans are being ground into
the dirt by government at all levels. There is
no democracy. There is only looting. The One
Percent fear that sooner or later even
insouciant Americans might rise up. But they
can’t if they are disarmed. That is all gun
control is about.
Deaths
from what the propagandistic “gun violance”
shills for the police state hype as a massive
problem are such a small percentage of US deaths
that they do not even show up statistically. Yet
we have all this protest over an infintestimal
number of deaths, and no protests at all by
opponents of “gun violence” over police
killings, which are larger that “gun violence”
deaths or over America’s massive murders on a
world scale. Where are the “gun violence”
protests over the millions of deaths and
millions of displaced peoples in Iraq, Libya,
Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan?
Where are the “gun violence” protests against
Trumpt’s chosen national security adviser John
Bolton’s plan to bomb Iran and North Korea into
the stone age?
They
are nowhere to be found. How much more evidence
do you need that the “gun violence” people are
totally insensitive to real violence and only
serve a police state agenda?
A
reader sent me this . I don’t have the time to
check it out. So some of you check it and let me
know. If correct, I will acknowledged it, and
also if incorrect.
This was posted by a friend on FB, I thought it
worthy…
Sharing
this data from a friend who has researched these
statistics
thoroughly. There are 30,000 gun related deaths
per year by firearms,
and this number is not disputed. The U.S.
population is 324,059,091 as
of June 22, 2016 (the last searchable census
numbers) Do the math:
0.00925% of the population dies from gun related
actions each
year. Statistically speaking, this is
insignificant! What is never
told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000
deaths, to put them in
perspective as compared to other causes of
death:
-65% of
those deaths are by suicide, which would never
be prevented by gun laws.
-15%
are by police.
-17%
are through criminal activity, gang and drug
related or mentally
ill persons.
-3% are
accidental discharge deaths.
So
technically, “gun violence” is not 30,000
annually, but drops to
5,100. Now lets look at how those deaths spanned
across the nation:
-480
homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago
-344
homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore
-333
homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit
-119
homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54%
increase over prior years)
So
basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just
4 cities. All 4 of
those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not
the lack of law that
is the root cause. This basically leaves 3,825
for the entire rest of
the nation, or about 75 deaths per state -an
average because some
States have much higher rates than others. For
example, California had
1,169 and Alabama had 1.
Now,
who has the strictest gun laws by far?
California, of course, but
it is not guns causing this. It is a crime rate
spawned by the number
of criminal persons residing in those cities and
states. So if all
cities and states are not created equal, then
there must be something
other than the tool causing the gun deaths.
Are
5,100 deaths per year horrific? How about in
comparison to other
deaths? All death is sad and especially so when
it is in the
commission of a crime but that is the nature of
crime. Robbery,
death, rape, assault are all done by criminals.
It is ludicrous to
think that criminals will obey laws. That is why
they are called
criminals.
But
what about other deaths each year?
Nearly
75% of all deaths in the United States are
attributed to just
10 causes, with the top three of these
accounting for over 50 percent
of all deaths. Over the last 5 years, the main
causes of death in the
U.S. have remained fairly consistent.
1.
Heart disease
2.
Cancer (malignant neoplasms)
3.
Chronic lower respiratory disease
4.
Accidents (unintentional injuries)
5.
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases)
6.
Alzheimer’s disease
7.
Diabetes
8.
Influenza and pneumonia
9.
Kidney disease (nephritis, nephritic syndrome,
and nephrosis)
10.
Suicide
Guns
don’t even make the top ten list. Not to
mention:
-40,000+ die from a drug overdose–THERE IS NO
EXCUSE FOR THAT!
-36,000
people die per year from the flu, far exceeding
the criminal gun deaths.
-34,000
people die per year in traffic
fatalities(exceeding gun deaths even if you
include suicide).
-200,000+ people die each year (and growing)
from preventable medical errors. You are safer
walking in the worst areas of Chicago than you
are when you are in a hospital!
-710,000 people die per year from heart disease.
Where is the real war on fast food? Why are we
not teaching healthy eating in schools?
So what
is the point? If the liberals and the anti-gun
movement focused their attention on heart
disease, even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths
would save twice the number of lives annually of
all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law
enforcement, etc.). A 10% reduction in medical
errors would be 66% of the total number of gun
deaths or 4 times the number of criminal
homicides -Simple, easily preventable 10%
reductions! So you have to ask yourself, in the
grand scheme of things, why the focus on guns?
It’s pretty simple: (to Steven Waugh’s point)
Taking
away guns gives control to governments. The
founders of this nation knew that regardless of
the form of government, those in power may
become corrupt and seek to rule as the British
did by trying to disarm the populace of the
colonies. It is not difficult to understand that
a disarmed populace is a controlled populace.
Thus, the second amendment was proudly and
boldly included in the U.S. Constitution. It
must be preserved at all costs. So the next time
someone tries to tell you that gun control is
about saving lives, look at these facts and
remember these words from Noah Webster: “Before
a standing army can rule, the people must be
disarmed.”
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
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