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Fact: There are more privately owned guns in the United States than ever before and the number of murders has been at or near a multigenerational low for several years. More guns, less crime? 1/n
Fact: There were 387 deaths from mass shootings in US in 2018 (defined as 4 or more shot - not killed - at one time). Of those most were regular criminals like gang-related drive-bys & bar fights. About 100 were of the random, psycho-killer variety. 2/n
Fact: There were 660 murdered in Chicago in 2017. That’s nearly twice the number from mass shootings in the whole country and 6x-7x the number murdered by random psychos mass shooters. Chicago has some of the strictest gun control in the country. Maybe it’s not the guns. 3/n
Fact: There are 1.2 - 1.5 million defensive uses of guns per year in the United States. How many more murders, rapes, thefts, and assaults would there be without armed citizens? 4/n
Fact: There were over 70,000 opioid deaths last year. That’s 4.5x the total number of murders & 700x the number of people killed by psycho mass-shooters. Yet, liberals want to enact massive gun control & prevent Americans from defending themselves. Maybe there’s another agenda.
