The Telegraph blames America’s right to bear arms for its so-called murder rate problem, which includes jihad attacks:
From family rows and college shootings, such as the one in Roseburg which killed 10, to terrorist attacks, like Orlando’s Pulse nightclub attack which left 50 dead, thousands have died because of guns legally produced and bought in America.
The Telegraph is saying that America’s massive rate of gun-related deaths is due to its gun culture, rooted in the Second Amendment. The Telegraph also mocks the view that jihad mass shootings constitute a real threat:
Between 2001 and 2014, there were 3,380 American deaths caused by terrorism. This compares to 440,095 deaths as a result of gun violence.
The implied solution to the gun violence problem: disarm Americans. But the article doesn’t come right out and say to disarm law-abiding Americans, nor does it tell you that a negligible number of gun homicides are committed by people using legal guns.
In a similar — but overt — drive to disarm law-abiding citizens, the German left has been planning to disarm “right-wing extremists,” “Brexiteers,” and Trump fans.
One of the disarm-Germans advocates actually argued:
“America’s right to bear arms is ‘racist’ because white people tend to use their guns to commit suicide rather than murder ‘each other en masse’, which he says black people do.”
No matter what Americans and Europeans do, the sins of the past — the Ku Klux Klan, colonialism, slavery and generally, Eurocentrism — are used to help foster blindness to genuine threats today. That blind spot covers the astronomical tally of victims of the Muslim persecution of Christians, the beheadings of infidels, the stabbing of infidels and running them over with cars, the infiltration of the West by jihadist criminals, and much more.
On the gun control issue, the media game is to skew the truth to fit the agenda of stripping Americans of their right to bear arms. There have also been systemic government coverups on the issue of murders committed by illegal immigrants, so in the absence of comprehensive data, Fox News did its own investigative research and found that “a wildly disproportionate number of murderers, rapists and drug dealers are crossing into the U.S. amid the wave of hard-working families seeking a better life. The explosive figures show illegal immigrants are three times as likely to be convicted of murder as members of the general population.”
There’s a drive to disarm law-abiding Americans, and not only Americans, but all peace-loving people in the West. With jihadist infiltration and the migrant crime wave in Europe, we see what America will also face: massively increased rates of assault and attacks from migrants. In fact, the same Telegraph report (ironically) cited FBI projections:
We have used the FBI definition of a mass shooting: where four or more people were shot in a single event, at the same time and location, not including the shooter. As the archive says, there is likely to be more mass shootings in the US than are reported here, due to reporting gaps and a lack of authoritative data on the issue.
Rather than openly talk about America’s problems with Muslim migrants and other groups, and try to find some workable solution for the sake of public safety, the Telegraph prefers to be politically correct and talk about America’s problem with guns.
The kicker is that in a country that has seen the number of guns far outweigh the entire US population for the first time (since the election of Obama), only a tiny fraction of crimes are committed with legal guns, yet special interest lobbies continue to manipulate the numbers in an effort to blame guns and disarm America as the jihad advances.
“Special report 400 dead this year: the face of America’s mass shootings problem”, Telegraph, December 1, 2016:
From family rows and college shootings, such as the one in Roseburg which killed 10, to terrorist attacks, like Orlando’s Pulse nightclub attack which left 50 dead, thousands have died because of guns legally produced and bought in America.
Between 2001 and 2014, there were 3,380 American deaths caused by terrorism. This compares to 440,095 deaths as a result of gun violence – which includes homicides, accidents, suicides, as well as mass shootings.
The Telegraph has documented 2016’s victims of American mass shootings, defined as incidents where more than four people were shot. This varies from Tedashii Williams, an 11-month-old baby from Florida, to Beatrice Dotson, a woman who had lived to 95 before being shot in a shopping mall.
We have marked the perpetrators who died in their own mass shootings in red.
Children
This year, 39 victims of mass shootings have been aged under 18. 11 were under 10, and 12 were shot by family members.Children as young as one are killed
Ida Villegas-Hernandez and Alejandro Rodriguez are among the youngest killed, both three years old before being killed by their fathers who then turned the gun on themselves. Alejandro was three days away from his fourth birthday.Ida’s father shot her in the head after her mother asked him for a divorce. He made a failed suicide attempt, writing a note stating: “This wasn’t the solution but my kids and I were suffering greatly”. One victim, Tedashii Williams, hadn’t even turned one before he was shot.
Young men
Young men are more likely to be killed in mass shootings. This year, 74 victims were men aged between 18 and 24.Young men are among the worst-hit
The average age of this year’s victims is 31 years, compared to the US average of 37.8. 72 per cent of victims were male. Nine 18-year-old males have been killed this year: Joshua Morrison, Tory Carlson, Antoine Alexander, Jordan Larkin, Stef’an Strawder, Traeven Harris, Zoruan Otto Harris, Matthew Hicks and Brian Davis.Joshua Morrison was an attendee of Tabb High School and was killed when travelling to a party with his friends. After an altercation in the car, Dijon Whitter fired several shots which killed Joshua and injured four others.
Pulse nightclub
50 of this year’s mass shooting deaths were in a terrorist attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.Pulse is one of America’s deadliest shooting
Omar Mateen, carrying a semi-automatic rifle and a semi-automatic pistol, went into the gay nightclub and committed America’s deadliest shooting by a single shooter.42 of these deaths were male, and the average age of the victims was 29. The oldest of these was Franky J. Dejesus Velazquez, a 50-year-old visual merchandiser and professional Jibaro dancer.
The youngest was 18-year-old Akyra Monet Murray, who had just graduated third in her class at West Catholic Preparatory High School. She had received a full basketball scholarship to study at Pennsylvania’s Mercyhurst College.
Family shootings
At least 30 family members have been killed by relatives in mass shootings this year.Whole families have been killed by a relative
Wives, parents and children have all been killed in shooting rampages by their relatives. 12 of the victims have been children, including two three-year-olds who were killed by their fathers. Doris Dooley, the oldest victim, was 74 when her grandson shot her.Cameron Dooley killed five relatives before committing suicide. Similarly, four members of the Dej-Odoum, Villegas-Hernandez and Buckner families have all been killed by relatives. Apart from Juan David Villegas-Hernandez, who is in custody, these incidents concluded in the perpetrator’s suicide……
This problem isn’t going away
Mass shootings represent just a small fraction of people shot to death in America. Americans killed in mass shootings make up less than half of one percent of its citizens killed by guns. More than half of gun deaths are suicides.During Obama’s second term as President, it is estimated that more than one million guns have been sold every month.
The President has become increasingly frustrated with gun policy over his time in office, but the pro-gun lobby and President-elect Donald Trump argue that attempts to restrict gun ownership is a breach of their right to bear arms under the Second Amendment.
Meanwhile, American mass shootings – and gun violence more generally – continue to claim at least one life each day, adding another face to the list of the dead…….
We have used the FBI definition of a mass shooting: where four or more people were shot in a single event, at the same time and location, not including the shooter. As the archive says, there is likely to be more mass shootings in the US than are reported here, due to reporting gaps and a lack of authoritative data on the issue.