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This is a speech by Mr Bill Whittle about Gun control and Guns in general. Given a couple of years back. Interesting, and revolving.
Mr Whittle has sketched out many interesting points on the positives of guns, and how guns, in general, serve the community better compared to without guns. Mr Whittle has also presented the need for crime control rather than gun control, a point noted and well taken.
As our founder pointed out in the Guns and Zens section, and agree with Mr Whittle on the relative size of these shootings in numbers compared to other risk-related events. The place where our founder agrees to disagree is the point that gun control is not the same as crime control.
Here are issues coming out of Gun violence and Guns, in general:
1. Gun violence draws more publicity in the media, whether we like it or not, and has shown to impact mental framework of common people; there are several psychiatric studies to support this information
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181836/ (Traumatic Stress and its impacts on the brain)
2. With close to 44 million people with mental illnesses, and with limitations on oversight, having guns at a per capita rate of 1.1 (or, close to 300+ million guns) does not seem necessary
3. Risk estimates presented by reliable sources suggest at least 4 times more risks involved compared to rewards coming out of guns
4. Firearms-related homicides, according to CDC, accounts for 70% of all homicides; even in Russia where Mr Whittle has close connections, have only around 25% in terms of firearms-related homicides
5. The biggest difference between Russia and US is the per capita gun ownership. US's per capita private gun ownership ~ 1.0 - 1.1 or more than 320 million guns; Whereas, in Russia, private gun ownership is around 0.09 - not even 1/10th of US; In terms of absolute numbers - 320+ million vs ~14 million; With black market supposedly more pronounced in Russia, as per public data, that number could be slightly higher than 14 million, but still no way near 320 million guns
6. As presented earlier, the mass shootings of significance increased by almost six-fold between the two-time spans, 1900-1960 and 1960-2018
7. Per capita, gun ownership in 1950 was around 0.33, and with a population of 150 million then that equated to around 50 million guns; Now, there are more than 320 million guns - a six-fold increase again
8. Again, as mentioned above, Mr Whittle could get insight from his better half on the gun laws (which, as per public data, is stricter) in place in Russia to see whether we could bring in any best practices from over there.
For a transcript of this speech, please see the below link:
https://www.billwhittle.com/mr-virtual-president/guns-virtual-state-union-2013
Mr Whittle has sketched out many interesting points on the positives of guns, and how guns, in general, serve the community better compared to without guns. Mr Whittle has also presented the need for crime control rather than gun control, a point noted and well taken.
As our founder pointed out in the Guns and Zens section, and agree with Mr Whittle on the relative size of these shootings in numbers compared to other risk-related events. The place where our founder agrees to disagree is the point that gun control is not the same as crime control.
Here are issues coming out of Gun violence and Guns, in general:
1. Gun violence draws more publicity in the media, whether we like it or not, and has shown to impact mental framework of common people; there are several psychiatric studies to support this information
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181836/ (Traumatic Stress and its impacts on the brain)
2. With close to 44 million people with mental illnesses, and with limitations on oversight, having guns at a per capita rate of 1.1 (or, close to 300+ million guns) does not seem necessary
3. Risk estimates presented by reliable sources suggest at least 4 times more risks involved compared to rewards coming out of guns
4. Firearms-related homicides, according to CDC, accounts for 70% of all homicides; even in Russia where Mr Whittle has close connections, have only around 25% in terms of firearms-related homicides
5. The biggest difference between Russia and US is the per capita gun ownership. US's per capita private gun ownership ~ 1.0 - 1.1 or more than 320 million guns; Whereas, in Russia, private gun ownership is around 0.09 - not even 1/10th of US; In terms of absolute numbers - 320+ million vs ~14 million; With black market supposedly more pronounced in Russia, as per public data, that number could be slightly higher than 14 million, but still no way near 320 million guns
6. As presented earlier, the mass shootings of significance increased by almost six-fold between the two-time spans, 1900-1960 and 1960-2018
7. Per capita, gun ownership in 1950 was around 0.33, and with a population of 150 million then that equated to around 50 million guns; Now, there are more than 320 million guns - a six-fold increase again
8. Again, as mentioned above, Mr Whittle could get insight from his better half on the gun laws (which, as per public data, is stricter) in place in Russia to see whether we could bring in any best practices from over there.
For a transcript of this speech, please see the below link:
https://www.billwhittle.com/mr-virtual-president/guns-virtual-state-union-2013
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