Guns and America

Here's some things to consider and share and encourage others in regarding tragic death; whether it's school shootings, criminals w guns etc.

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4 things to know in the wake of mass shootings

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Things to know and think through:

About Gun statistics and background:

Did you know cancer kills more people in America than people who use guns to harm others? There's a heart issue happening in America is at epic proportion like never before... People are fixated on the gun. But guns dont kill people, People kill people. The guns the Uvalde school shooter used did not kill the victims; the gunman did. ‘Egregious Poor Decision Making’ by police force there resulted in allowing many deaths. Nearly 400 Cops Gathered At Uvalde School Before Anyone Did Anything (July 2022 report). The 517 school occurred from 1884 to 2022 were done by criminals. From 1880s to 1995ish US schools had gun clubs from 7th grade to 12th grade on campus. *Note that 100% of the 84.5 million mentally stable, law abiding gun owners did not harm anyone with a gun. Not one. What sort of mental state could allow a criminal to pull the trigger over and over, killing children, adults & family in any murder situation? Someone who is evil at heart is not in a right mental state. Someone who embraced darkness lives in and does the things those in darkness do, by nature. It’s the same kind of evil that caused a driver to purposely plow into people at a holiday parade in Waukesha, or the driver who purposely ran over several people in a crosswalk in Vegas. Same evil that caused UK ex bf to plow into the ex gf home w a lorry truck with her and her children at home. It’s a blatant disregard for human life. Stricter gun control laws will not solve that, or that would have already fixed the issue in places like Chicago where hundreds have already been murdered this year alone.

Banning guns or restricting with more laws is not the answer. There's far more people killed with knives (1,739) each year than rifles (455), according to the latest 2020 FBI statistics. And in fact, there appeared to be NO correlation between gun ownership increasing and the murder rate in the United States even going back to the 1990s. Out of 84.5 million law abiding citizens who own guns for protection and defense, none of them misuse the gun today, this year, or ever. Only criminals misuse guns (bought on black market or stolen from someone, or bought with that purpose). Those with criminal intent who obtain them TO do evil are the problem. 10,000 gun crimes by evil people are committed each year on citizens (*Note. I have yet to see statistics where gang on gang crimes were omitted so we can see real numbers). Crimes by other weapons like hands and knives are also evil. Gun laws do nothing to get to the core of the problem. The tool doesn't matter, the mentality of the user does. Over the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic shift in gun ownership preferences. In 1990, 57% of gun owners said they owned a gun for hunting or target/sport shooting. With 43% stating self defense. Today, 67% of gun owners say protection is the reason they own a gun, typically a handgun, for self-defense. Here is chart data of American gun ownership and American murder rate.

It shows the error in belief that more guns inevitably means more murder. Gun ownership was up 56% and gun homicides was down to -49% (negative 49%). Notably, the rate remained low and then "decreased" further even after the assault weapons ban of 1994 expired in 2004. Consider these 8 facts about gun violence in USA Australia's big gun buyback program ended up removing about 1/3 of Australia's guns. Its murder rate drop was similar to that of the US! Sweden armed its citizens after the Nazi war. Today, 75% of Sweden citizens are armed, and trained to use guns. Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, like USA, but the is not a melting pot of people, illegals, drug infestation, single families, ethnic issues, and doesnt have the myriad of cultures like USA. Surveys continue to find that a majority of American gun owners feel they are safer with a gun in their home. And that “a good guy with a gun” can save people from being victims of a crime. Numerous studies have found that self-defensive gun usage to prevent or combat is rare. A 2015 Harvard study, for example, found that people had to defend themselves with a gun in less than 1% of the time from 2007-11. Good thing we don't need to use them regularly, but if needed, it is available to stop a real threat! The news purposely doesn't show all the news or hardly any news if any at all on the good guys with guns saving the day, because it goes against their agenda of gun control, duping the masses to unarm. And they only highlight the shootings they want to, for specific agendas. PHOTO PHOTO PHOTO PHOTO PHOTO *Doesn't include open carry cases (larger#).... PHOTO Link Fortunately SCOTUS recently ruled for citizens 2A rights that stop states from infringing and requiring extreme forms of preventing good guys with guns and in public. Finally, common sense has returned in 2022. Hopefully cases in the non open carry and conceal carry states will now give gun power back to the citizens and stop the govt from preventing those rights. Good guys w guns can now stop the bad guys. Gun Control and safe zones = mass victims PHOTO PHOTO PHOTO The news and views in last 15 yrs was, "citizens don't need guns, only cops do". Um.... PHOTO Since 2020 most people now dont trust cops, so why only let them have the guns? 🤦‍♂️ Since 1978 About 45 - 51% of households own guns. And the number of gun owners started increasing in 2000, (August 2020 alone exceeded purchases for the entirety of 2019). 81.5 million Americans own legal guns. Since Biden election and the covid pandemic, ownership increased. In 2020 there were 5 million new gun owners. By 2021 it was 7.5 million. Likely because they were working at home and needed to make sure to protect themselves and any home schooled children. But even the the law abiding black community started buying guns, and had a big spike in gun ownership. Everyone has wised up about needing personal protection. The USA founders adopted the Second Amendment for a reason, and it’s not about hunting. It’s about self-protection and the preservation of liberty. PHOTO Those who misuse a gun as a means for murder, are evil people. They have a heart issue. They have not been raised with good morals and values and dont fear God, and therefore embrace hate, evil, selfishness, self-righteousness; they dont value life, nor care about nor love others. So they easily murder because they have no foundation of good morals & values that guide them. No fear of the law, no fear of God. Cultural shift issues Among gun related killings (from 1982-2022) it was found that 80% of citizens felt the mental health issue, being a danger to others, was a significant factor. * Mental health issues have a root sin issue. About Morality and being Descent people in the current era: We will never be able to create laws to control evil. Evil doesn't obey laws nor is evil capable of doing good. The issue in this country is a heart issue. We need a common sense return to God. Only Jesus can (instantly) transform us from sinful evil people; (convert us) to one who loves God, loves others, values life, and lives a righteous life [that causes us to grow daily to become more holy and loving]. We need the new nature, a transformation that only comes by God through Christian faith in Jesus. Topic video about school shootings, 8 points School Shootings, the reason Pastor perspective Addl message of hope & healing Visit NeedGod.com if you are looking for how to be saved. PHOTO *https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us 2020 __ Govt and more laws is not the solution. PHOTO ------ PHOTO If good guys with guns were in the school, such as having armed teachers, it wouldn't have happened. Evil people do evil things. If people are armed bad people fear and dont do evil. I pray for the families 😥who lost children by the act of one evil child, and I pray that God uses this situation to bring people closer to him, to seek comfort in Him 🫂and to remind everyone that God said no one is promised a tomorrow. 💥We know that is what happened when the recent trans student mass murdered Christians in a Christian School. We see God moving. Locally and nationally as people saw this on tv. Possibly globally to. Important message on gun peace 🙏✝️ PHOTO One of the recent school attacks the light was pointed to the parents and how the kid was raised. We def live in an world where it is sin stained. Parents have their own struggles from their youth or adult age where they can fall into drugs, alcohol, or anything, and that can mess up their children cuz they don't have good moral examples to follow. They dont get love, or proper parenting, and then wider issues happen. The elderly grandparents aren't able to raise a modern child, or any out of control teen. And throw in being bullied, being not given the real help the kid needed... the fallen world is a mess. Thankfully she went to Church to seek comfort in Jesus. She made mistakes, he made mistakes, and there's horrible consequences to innocent people. We need morality back in America. It needs to be at the core foundation of everything taught (from birth thru college) at home and at school. We need to teach to value life again, respect parents, teachers, elders, authority, law, and care about one another as children and young people. If you (reader) are trying to make sense of the madness and need some comfort and prayer please visit needGod.com 🙏 -- Self Defense for on site Threat Stoppers, Prevents 99% of criminal actions by evil people. Police arrive late on the scene. They'll never get there in time. This last one took 40 min to get there and no cops went in for 77 minutes. It's absurd. In modern times, as I old times, you have to be able to stop the threat, as soon as there's a threat. We have to get back to common sense. Self defense and protect the children. Teachers job role has to evolve with the times. They need to be trained and armed as part of their responsibilities. Just like cops who don't use their gun 99% of the time across their entire career, neither will teachers need to. But you cant let yourself and others around you be a victim, get trained and stay armed. Same as everyday elsewhere USA. Today is too dangerous. We can't just only allow criminals thugs and deranged kids walk up with evil intentions to use guns and have no one around to stop the threat. Historically in USA when people were armed no one does stiff like school shootings or robbery at liquor marts cuz the people had guns. Fear of others harming the self-criminal evil attacker will indeed stop most kids and teens from trying to harm others at school with weapons cuz good guys are strapped to stop a threat dead cold. That fear stops them. Same with bad guys and cops who are armed. Same w robbers and burglars. They do not go where they know prey have weapons to defend. They go where the defenseless are. Watch this free movie on gun violence in America Here There was never a problem with guns in schools until God and morality were thrown out. Violence increased in video games, parents started allowing children and teens to watch rated R movies, and TV shows of violence, rap music focusing on murder and hate, and now tv is pumping hate and fear 247 on over 1500 cable channels as well as violent videos on YouTube and social media. Adults and children are being brainwashed. This is not how things were in school from 1600s to early 1990s. In fact the schools had gun clubs. 7th thru 12th graders joined gun clubs and practiced at school. High schoolers had gun racks in their trucks in school parking lots. National Review article also talked about this history. Shooting clubs, now quietly withering away, were once such a mainstay of American high-school life PHOTO For most of American history “private transfers" of guns to juveniles were unrestricted. Often a youngster’s 12th or 14th birthday present was a shiny new .22-caliber rifle, given to him by their father, until the 1968 Gun Control Act. Teens with guns was normal. Nobody batted an eyelid. School shootings were non-existent; in the country at large, they were extremely rare. Gun clubs continued in piblic schools thru 1997. And I'm pretty sure are still in private schools across the country as well as after school clubs and national competitions for children and teens (of which, none murder others). The notion that guns should form a part of education has a rich pedigree in our republic. In 1785, Thomas Jefferson wrote to his 15-year-old nephew Peter Carr with some scholarly advice. 1990 Congress legislated to render all schools “gun-free zones.” and this absurdity is what allowed evil-bad guys with guns to go into schools with no guns, and slaughter children. How has anyone not understood common sense around the absurdity of this "zone" nonsense till now? New York Post noted, It was common for high school students to take their guns with them to school on the subways in the morning and turn them over to their home-room teacher or the gym coach so the heavy guns would simply be out of the way. After school, students would pick up their guns when it was time for practice. PHOTO PHOTO Learning about guns and proper purposes PHOTO PHOTO Random publicity photo poses by gun club students PHOTO PHOTO Historical Club members photo PHOTO Random publicity photo poses by gun club students PHOTO PHOTO Outdoor gun club practice PHOTO PHOTO So why were there no school shootings in American history until modern times? God and morality was thrown away, and evil behavior and values were embraced. Let's get back to America's foundational principles. Solution: 1. Bring God and morals back.

2. Teach

A. the value of human life, from womb to tomb. Respect, love and care for babies and elderly.

B. Bring civility, tolerance of other views, agree to disagree politely (not trying to shut people down out of rage and silencing them). 3. Today staff and teachers in school need to be armed as part of their job requirements and responsibilities. Their role needs to evolve to protect the 30 souls under their care. When seconds matter, they are 1st line of defense to stop the threat. This latest school tragedy took cops 40 min to showed up and 77 min to go into the school. It's absurd! Another law enforcement unit showed up before the cops, but due to bureaucracy and jurisdiction were not allowed to go in and stop the threat and rescue kids! In response, right now parents are armed and at schools due to school system lack of protecting kids from evil people. This is the schools job! PHOTO *one of several parents posts online None those kids were afraid of the good guy with a gun. They were not afraid of the gun either. PHOTO There's several solutions that need to be implemented. 1. Bring back morality, and teaching the value of life, and teach civility, as #1 priority 2. Classrooms have no protection. How hard is it to install solid metal doors and a floor lock system to the door to prevent entry from any criminal? Cops can just come in and spend $ 1 bullet to end the situation. 3. Arm the teachers and staff, so anyone cam stop the threat b4 the cops get there. Teachers and staff need to be armed, trained and protect. Many schools are already doing this across 50 States. It needs to be required in all states and of all teachers. If they are not willing to grow with the changing job requirement... then they can find a new career, or start an online teaching channel. PHOTO How would teachers access the guns? Wear them PHOTO PHOTO PHOTO Advocate for teachers to be trained and required as part of their job, today, to protect their class. And advocate for our historical morals and values to be brought back to American schools. PHOTO Final note. Do you know what AR stands for? PHOTO Hopefully you know better now too. PHoTO PHOTO If your argument is on AR 15, and no one under 21 should have one, then you haven't been paying attention to gun news in major states like CA. Are you saying school kids lives matter, but not 18 to 21 year olds?? PHOTO Article Other problems in this country are States like CA limiting you to 10 bullets in a gun. The legislators are far removed from reality. There should be no infringements and limitations. I've seen several news pieces since 2019 about multiple men breaking into a home and 1 women or a family there and have 1 gun. 10 bullets in that kind if situation is not enough. And news proved so w deadly results for the woman and others. Here's another newer example. Since 2020 criminals are getting bolder in groups since riots after riots and this new thuggery movements. Look at the comments. So, stand up for citizens gun rights & Stop trying to limit people's protections. Video Finally, Let's also look at parents here. Tbh it's time to put some blame on them. You don't see school shootings happening at private schools, Christian schools, or charter schools. Only public schools which are run by atheistic liberals who don't teach morals values and importance of valuing life. you would think by now parents would homeschooling their children after columbine. If not, then at least after the next school tragedy (sandy hook?). Plus even at least by now, after having 2 yrs teaching virtually at home during covid, they couldve just stayed with home schooling.. even if they fell behind,, they'd catch up by 2nd grade and by the time HS graduation,, even if they dud GED. But sending kids back at the end of covid (before it was dead), and what did they expect? No more shooting tragedies?? The uvlede tragedy happened and they're STILL sending their kids to killing zones. I think that should be something investigated 🤔. I don't think these parents care about their kids. Fortunately SCOTUS 2022 just ruled that govt school $ can go to all children regardless where they want to be schooled. Religious school, homeschooling, charter school or private school. And I would say with these additional options now... there's 0 excuse for kids to be in dangerous public schools. If parents leave them there, it's as bad as child abuse and social services should be called.