8 responses to “Tagging and Violence.”

1. 

   Andrew

   August 23, 2007

   Children and Gun Violence
   In a single year, 3,012 children and teens were killed by gunfire in the United States, according to the latest national data released in 2002. That is one child every three hours; eight children every day; and more than 50 children every week. And every year, at least 4 to 5 times as many kids and teens suffer from non-fatal firearm injuries. (Children’s Defense Fund and National Center for Health Statistics)

   America and Gun Violence
   American children are more at risk from firearms than the children of any other industrialized nation. In one year, firearms killed no children in Japan, 19 in Great Britain, 57 in Germany, 109 in France, 153 in Canada, and 5,285 in the United States. (Centers for Disease Control)

   Guns in the Wrong Hands
   Faulty records enable terrorists, illegal aliens and criminals to purchase guns. Over a two and a half-year period, at least 9,976 convicted felons and other illegal buyers in 46 states obtained guns because of inadequate records. (Broken Records, Americans for Gun Safety Foundation)

   School Safety

   Between 1994 and 1999, there were 220 school associated violent events resulting in 253 deaths – – 74.5% of these involved firearms. Handguns caused almost 60% of these deaths. (Journal of American Medical Association, December 2001)
   In 1998-99 academic year, 3,523 students were expelled for bringing a firearm to school. This is a decrease from the 5,724 students expelled in 1996-97 for bringing a firearm to school. (U.S. Department of Education, October 2000)
   Nearly 8% of adolescents in urban junior and senior high schools miss at least one day of school each month because they are afraid to attend. (National Mental Health & Education Center for Children & Families, National Association of School Psychologists 1998)

   The National School Boards Association estimates that more than 135,000 guns are brought into U.S. schools each day. (NSBA, 1993)
   Children and Gun Violence

   America is losing too many children to gun violence. Between 1979 and 2001, gunfire killed 90,000 children and teens in America. (Children’s Defense Fund and National Center for Health Statistics)

   In one year, more children and teens died from gunfire than from cancer, pneumonia, influenza, asthma, and HIV/AIDS combined. (Children’s Defense Fund)

   The rate of firearm deaths among kids under age 15 is almost 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

   America and Gun Violence

   Every day, more than 80 Americans die from gun violence. (Coalition to Stop Gun Violence)
   The rate of firearm deaths among kids under age 15 is almost 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

   American kids are 16 times more likely to be murdered with a gun, 11 times more likely to commit suicide with a gun, and nine times more likely to die from a firearm accident than children in 25 other industrialized countries combined. (Centers for Disease Control)

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2. 

   Brandon Wolner

   August 23, 2007

   Yet the cities with the tightest gun control have the most gun deathes.
   Imagine you are a worthless scum that resorts to violence for your income, would you rather attack a armed victim or unarmed victim?
   The facts prove guns also save lives.

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3. 

   Chris

   August 21, 2007

   The 70% tax rate seems a bit extreme, but the other aspects, possibly. It’s really a great country, however they’re doing it!

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4. 

   Andrew

   August 20, 2007

   Would you also support Switzerland’s program of universal health care, 70% tax rate, neutrality in foreign wars, and generous subsidies for public transportation including bicycles, as well as strict zoning to protect agriculture from development and keep cities within their borders so sprawl does not destroy the countryside? Guns are kept in Swiss homes, because each ciitizen is literally asked to defend their country from attack. Is that true of the gun owners in say, Mississippi?

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5. 

   Chris

   August 20, 2007

   I kinda disagree, Andrew, that guns are the reason our murder rate is so high. Switzerland, for example, is chock-full of guns and the Swiss are avid marksmen/women. But their gun violence rate is microscopic compared to ours.

   I think think the pervasiveness of violence in the country, particularly in urban areas, is more a matter of culture. Take away the guns, and we’ll still have plenty of people getting stabbed or beaten or run over by cars. It’s mainly how the society lives, not the tools it has available for violence.

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6. 

   Anonymous

   August 18, 2007

   25 years, no exceptions. watch tagging subside. the law is a joke to these hoodlums. show them otherwise.

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7. 

   Anonymous

   August 18, 2007

   Maria Hicks was one of my best friends in high school (El Rancho High)…I was devasated when I heard how she died. I attended her beautiful services and was able to tell her brother (Ruben) that tagging MUST be a felony. We need to SCARE THEM STRAIGHT…my cousin Fernie (a sheriff deputy himself) suggested we propose KITA’S LAW…that was Maria Hick’s nickname…we passed this on to her brother and hope this is only the beginning of justice served.

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8. 

   Rob Dawg

   August 17, 2007

   We have lots more murder in the US because we have lots more guns.

   Well we have more gun murder I’ll grant you that. As to murder of all types it looks like everyplace else adjusted for the other known factors for murder. Some of those are strange at first but demographers have spent a very long time and stand by them. Speaking English, geographic latitude, stuff like that.

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