Polemic: America, Land of the Dead

Every 16 hours a woman is shot by her husband or boyfriend One American is killed with a gun every 15 minutes Over 80 Americans are shot and killed every day 7 children are “unintentionally” shot every day 33,000 Americans are killed by guns every year Every day 55 Americans kill themselves with guns There were 330 mass shootings in America in 2015 This is a public health issue This is a domestic security issue This is an every-single-citizen-is-involved issue You could be next or your spouse or partner or child or mother or father or sister or brother 74% of NRA members favor background checks 46% fewer women are shot to death by husbands or boyfriends in states with background checks 48% fewer on-duty cops are shot in states with background checks 51% of NRA members favor 5-day waiting periods Most states have a 24-hour waiting period to get a tattoo to buy a gun there is no waiting period required States with waiting periods before gun purchases have 51% fewer suicides In Texas no permit is required to own a handgun no registration is required for owning long arms or handguns no license is required to own firearms there are no assault weapons laws texans can carry concealed weapons if they have a permit with no training or educational classes required Most states are the same – trapped in oblivion It takes 1,000 hours of training to be a yoga instructor to buy a gun in most states no training is required In most states there is a limit to the amount of Sudafed you can purchase but no limit on guns and ammunition The shooter in Aurora, Colorado was able to purchase 6,000 rounds of ammunition online without any question The Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2015 which required face to face purchases of ammunition, licensing of ammunition dealers, and reporting regarding bulk purchases of ammunition would have prevented this purchase of 6,000 rounds but it was killed by Republicans, the NRA, and its merry band of cynical lobbyist-whores This is suicide on a national scale Americans are killing themselves with more and more frequency Where is the unrelenting national outrage? where are the pounding national protests? Where are the demands for investigations into the profits of the NRA and the gun and ammunition manufacturers This is all BLOOD MONEY profits made on the corpses of delusional and catastrophically misinformed Americans What is more sacred the Second Amendment or human life what does the meaning of freedom mean when you are dead The statistics noted here were taken from the Brave New Films documentary, “MAKING A KILLING: Guns, Greed, and the NRA.” To find out more, please visit www.bravenewfilms.org