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UNDER THE GUN (part iv)
(Homicide: the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another, murder)
Not counting wars
(as long as soldiers are killing other soldiers
war deaths don’t count as murder
collateral damage seems to be a gray area.)
In this suffering world
The United Snakes of
Murder
is a big offender
although
not
the
worst
at least not
per capita
a data point that skews.
Take heart.
Gun deaths per capita are
highest in Central America. Is there any
wonder people are leaving? However,
that’s there, we’re here…
US DATA
BODY COUNT:
15,000 gun-murders (2017)
per 325,700,000 population
give or take
only the numbers
murders
themselves
are all take
no give
but
take
heart
it’s only.004% of the
population dead per year by murder most
foul (as in the best it is.)
By the by, there were 15
soldiers killed in 2017.
A moment to celebrate the
country with the least:
Iceland had 4 murders in
2017
none by gun by gum
none by gun since 2007
per capita Iceland has as
many guns as the US
1/3 of the total
population of 330,000 own
110,000 guns
(civilians own about
393,000,000 guns in the US)
nobody is sure why
Icelanders
are not killing each other
in greater numbers
with more enthusiasm
but, again, that’s there,
this is here:
St. Louis, MO
population 308,000
about the same as Iceland
–
160,000 concealed carry
permits
this does not count long
guns
187 homicides by firearm
no slackers in the state
of misery.
WORD PROBLEM:
If there are 393,000,000
guns, and you fired one every second, how long would it take to fire them all?
I hate word problems.
Answer: 12.5 years
God Bless America
BLOOD SHED:
USA
2017
11,862
men murdered
by gun
one man = 1.5 gallons of
blood = 17,793 gallons
(round up for performance)
men, ah one, and ah two,
and ah sing:
18,000
gallons of blood
18,000
gallons
on the wall
on the floor
on the concrete
in the grass
you know - wherever
Plus:
3,580
women murdered
by gun
one woman = 1.1 gallons =
3,938 gallons
rounded up to 4,000
(everybody, now)
22,000 gallons
of blood
on the wall
etc.
that’s a lot of blood
but we can scale
no reason to imagine
gallon jugs stacked
all around the house
how about –
swimming pools full
Word Problem:
If one standard sized,
back yard, 12x24 foot swimming pool holds 11,000 gallons of blood, how many
swimming pools will it take to hold all the blood spilled in one year?
Two!
swimming in blood
floating in blood
drowning in blood
up to our knees over our
heads
Very good, kids.
Take heart:
For all the venom
flowing through
our public, and one would
suspect
private
discourse
it’s a wonder
the blood pool
isn’t
longer
wider
deeper
Word
Problem:
If an Olympic Size
swimming pool holds 660,000 gallons of blood, and 22,000 gallons of blood is
shed per year, how many years would it take to fill one Olympic Size swimming
pool?
you have fifteen seconds…
hands waving
thirty years!
Yes! Excellent!
You see, it’s not as bad
as you thought.
KIDS
I believe 2nd
Amendment absolutists love their guns more than they love their children.
1,300 gun deaths per year
650 are homicides,
murders, that is
494 are suicides
the rest are accidents
I’m sorry, the amount of
blood
lost by children due to
gun death
is
too hard to calculate
they
come in so many different sizes.
O.G.?
Yes
Why
so sardonic?
Because,
if not, it would be too hard to bear.
Yes,
well, we send our thoughts and prayers.
Take heart.
Macbeth: Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather/The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/Making the green one red.
Macbeth: Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather/The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/Making the green one red.
Lady Macbeth: A little water clears us of this deed...
(all italics: Macbeth)
RW
Seattle
04.30.2019
RW
Seattle
04.30.2019
Post
Script: On May 31, 2019, twelve people
were murdered in a mass shooting in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Seven men, and five women. That would be about 16 gallons of blood.
RW
