UNDER THE GUN (part iv)

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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 2^nd 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.

Lady Macbeth:  A little water clears us of this deed...

(all italics:  Macbeth)

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