Onion Headline Says It All On Shooting
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens’
When the news is depressing, satire can be the best medicine.
Click here for reuse options!At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past five years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”
Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
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Obewon May 27th, 2014 at 20:23
USA! USA! We’re #1 in gun deaths of all top 40 OECD Nations.
“Americans are 20 times as likely to die from gun violence as citizens of other civilized countries Why? Because other civilized countries rein in guns.”-True ‘Guns kill 22 to 43 times more friends and family than any intruder.’-CDC. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/17/lisa-bloom/americans-are-20-times-likely-die-gun-violence-cit/
Obewon May 27th, 2014 at 20:23
USA! USA! We’re #1 in gun deaths of all top 40 OECD Nations.
“Americans are 20 times as likely to die from gun violence as citizens of other civilized countries Why? Because other civilized countries rein in guns.”-True ‘Guns kill 22 to 43 times more friends and family than any intruder.’-CDC. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/17/lisa-bloom/americans-are-20-times-likely-die-gun-violence-cit/
Anomaly 100 May 27th, 2014 at 20:50
This is just depressing.
Tom Ward May 28th, 2014 at 00:19
Cheer up!!
“Study: Gun homicides, violence down sharply in past 20 years” – Thu May 9, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/study-gun-homicide/
Anomaly 100 May 27th, 2014 at 20:50
This is just depressing.
Tom Ward May 28th, 2014 at 00:19
Cheer up!!
“Study: Gun homicides, violence down sharply in past 20 years” – Thu May 9, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/study-gun-homicide/
William May 28th, 2014 at 09:51
It is sometimes all so confusing.
William May 28th, 2014 at 09:51
It is sometimes all so confusing.