Sign in with Facebook
Fred Guttenberg’s Followers (19)
Fred Guttenberg
More books by Fred Guttenberg…
“An analysis conducted by the first author in his book Confronting Gun Violence in America found that the ten states with the weakest gun laws had over twice the gun death rate as the ten states with the strongest gun laws.101 Thus, gun deaths are linked more closely to gun ownership and weak gun laws than they are to urban living.”
― American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence
― American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence
“Another source, the Gun Violence Archive, shows that in 2021, there were 44,820 gun deaths in the United States, but just 1,237 verified defensive gun uses, or thirty-six gun deaths for every self-defense use of a gun.134 This last figure does not even include all the nonfatal shootings that occur in the country every day. There are about twice the number of nonfatal as fatal shootings in the country each year;135 therefore, the ratio of shootings (fatal and nonfatal) to self-defense gun uses is somewhere around 100:1. Consequently, gun-related deaths and injuries by aggressors outnumber defensive gun uses by a very large margin.”
― American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence
― American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence
“•A number of state Supreme Court rulings have also taken the position that public safety takes precedence over rights enshrined in the Constitution. In 1874 in the case of Hill v. State, the Georgia Supreme Court held that the state’s ban on carrying guns in churches, polling places, and courts was constitutional because the right to bear arms does not override safety considerations. That Court would have characterized today’s “guns everywhere” laws in states like Georgia as barbaric and as a sign of failure of institutions to protect the public:”
― American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence
― American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence
Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Fred to Goodreads.
