Showing posts with label Center for Disease Control (CDC). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Center for Disease Control (CDC). Show all posts

Saturday, March 11, 2017

Gun nut finally gets just results


Former Police Captain Curtis Reeves
The sane population of this country is battling the gun nuts that have been given the right-of-way to do just about anything they want with their guns. In Arizona, they can even carry them into bars where fights, even brawls break out occasionally. Now, by sane, I don't mean just staunch gun control advocates like me, it also includes those innocent people without guns that just don't want to be shot and maimed, possibly killed. Here are some appalling figures from the gun advocacy organization, Everytown for Gun Safety...
  1. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that on an average day, 93 Americans are killed with guns.
  2. On average there are nearly 12,000 gun homicides a year in the U.S.
  3. For every one person killed with guns, two more are injured.
  4. Seven children and teens (age 19 or under) are killed with guns in the U.S. on an average day.
  5. In an average month, 50 women are shot to death by intimate partners in the U.S.
  6. America’s gun homicide rate is more than 25 times the average of other high-income countries.
There are more you can see on the Everytown for Gun Safety site. But I ask you gun nuts out there, which of the above figures do you want to argue with. They are confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), that organization your leader, Wayne LaPierre, who heads up the National Rifle Assn, (NRA), tried to keep quiet for years. LaPierre and the NRA backed legislation that has blocked gun violence research for 20 years. What you are seeing above are raw figures supplied to the CDC by hospitals, doctors, police departments and other groups. The NRA would stop this if they could.

Chad Oulsen's wife, Nicole speaks out...



The idea for this post came from a CNN article titled, "Judge denies 'stand your ground' defense in movie theater shooting," which covers the death of  Chad Oulson in a Florida movie theatre at the hands of retired police captain, Curtis Reeves. Here is the CNN version...
The case dates to January 14, when Reeves, then 71, confronted a man in a suburban Tampa movie theater about texting during the previews before a showing of "Lone Survivor." The two argued, and then Reeves walked out of the theater to complain to an employee. When Reeves returned, he and the man, Chad Oulson, began arguing again.
Oulson threw a bag of popcorn at Reeves, according to a criminal complaint, and Reeves then took out his handgun and fired at Oulson, killing him.
The Judge established through evidence that Oulson did not throw a cell phone at Reeves, charged by the complainant, and Oulson's actions were not considered aggressive enough to qualify under Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' law, which also figured in George Zimmerman's 2013 trial in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Prosecutors played audio of Reeves talking to detectives shortly after the shooting...
"As soon as I pulled the trigger I said, 'Oh shoot, that was stupid.' If I had to do it over again, it would have never happened," he said. "If I had to do it over again, it would never have happened. I wouldn't have moved. But you don't get do-overs."
Reeves' hearing has just started.

Enough said...just another gun nut.

It was learned later that Oulson was checking his phone to text his daughter's babysitter.

Monday, October 8, 2012

September 2012 Monthly Shooting Report

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) whose data comes direct from hospitals, there are 88 people killed by firearms each day, 603 during a week, and 2,612 monthly.  The Nasty Jack report, with sources exclusively from the media, will obviously reflect smaller numbers than the CDC, but with dates and locations

Sept. 2012 came in lower than August in all categories, most significant was the drop in the number of shootings; a total of 113.  Deaths by firearms were only 7 less but the wounded were down 106.  Even with decreases, monthly deaths were still 70, and 159 were wounded in 229 shootings.  TOO MUCH!  Notably, the two largest cities in the country in states with some of the most stringent gun control laws, New York and Los Angeles, had only one incident each.

Chicago is still suffering from its gang warfare but there was some relief in that there were 4 less incidents in September than August.  And Phoenix, Arizona, the capital of loose gun control, had a total of 7 incidents, leading most every other city even close to its size.  There was another mass shooting during the month in Minneapolis, Minnesota where a gunman killed five including himself and wounded four others.  The grim statistics just keep piling up.

Gun control in the crosshairs
Yet, not a mention about gun control by the President or Republican contender Mitt Romney in last week’s debate.  Nor was there a question raised on that issue by seasoned debate host, Jim Lehrer.  I would be remiss if I didn’t bring up the NRA’s mythical hold on this country—mythical because the public has been showered with lies against sensible gun control convincing naïve Americans gun rights have an absolute protection from the Constitution, which is not true.

Therefore, we had no dialogue over one of the most important dilemmas this country has ever had, which is the death of innocent Americans from firearms that are available to anyone to take anywhere.  Here are the numbers for September:

DATE
CITY/STATE
DEAD
WOUNDED
SHOOTINGS
9/1/2012
Chicago, IL
2
15
17
9/1/2012
Oklahoma City, OK
0
4
4
9/1/2012
Seattle, WA
1
0
1
9/2/2012
Coolidge, AZ
1
0
1
9/3/2012
Baltimore, MD
1
6
7
9/3/2012
Chicago, IL
0
2
2
9/3/2012
West Union, WV
3
0
3
9/4/2012
Chicago, IL
2
0
2
9/4/2012
Sanford, NC
0
1
1
9/4/2012
Tucson, AZ
1
1
2
9/5/2012
Chicago, IL
1
4
5
9/5/2012
San Bernardino, CA
1
0
1
9/5/2012
Yuma, AZ
1
0
1
9/7/2012
Louisville, KY
1
1
2
9/7-9/8/12
Chicago, IL
2
9
11
9/8/2012
New York, NY
4
1
5
9/8/2012
Oakland, CA
0
5
5
9/9/2012
Wichita, KS
0
2
2
9/11/2012
District Heights, MD
1
0
1
9/11/2012
Greensboro, NC
0
2
2
9/11/2012
Holbrook, AZ
0
2
2
9/12/2012
Chicago, IL
1
4
5
9/12/2012
Phoenix, AZ
1
0
1
9/13/2012
Jackson, MS
0
2
2
9/14/2012
Chicago, IL
2
8
10
9/14/2012
Kansas City, MO
1
1
2
9/14/2012
Phoenix, AZ
1
1
2
9/14/2012
Richmond, VA
1
1
2
9/14/2012
Shreveport, LA
0
1
1
9/14-9/16/12
Chicago, IL
6
23
29
9/15/2012
South Bend, IN
0
1
1
9/15/2012
Tempe, AZ
0
3
3
9/15/2012
Trenton, NJ
0
2
2
9/16/2012
Myrtle Beach, SC
0
1
1
9/16/2012
Pomona, CA
0
1
1
9/16/2012
South Bend, IN
1
2
3
9/16/2012
Yuma, AZ
0
1
1
9/17/2012
Indianapolis, IN
1
1
2
9/19/2012
Pomona, CA
1
0
1
9/20/2012
Phoenix, AZ
1
0
1
9/20/2012
San Jose, CA
0
2
2
9/21/2012
Miami, FL
1
0
1
9/21/2012
Phoenix, AZ
1
0
1
9/21/2012
Phoenix, AZ
1
1
2
9/21-9/23/12
St. Louis, MO
0
7
7
9/21-9/23-12
East St. Louis, IL
3
2
5
9/23/2012
Baltimore, MD
0
1
1
9/23/2012
Bullhead City, AZ
1
0
1
9/23/2012
Greensboro, NC
0
1
1
9/23/2012
Kannapolis, NC
0
2
2
9/23/2012
Phoenix, AZ
0
3
3
9/25/2012
Lakeside, CA
0
3
3
9/26/2012
Clarksdale, MS
2
2
4
9/26/2012
Lincoln Heights, OH
0
1
1
9/26/2012
Richmond, VA
1
0
1
9/26/2012
Stillwater, OK
1
0
1
9/26/2012
Tucson, AZ
1
0
1
9/27/2012
Los angeles, CA
1
0
1
9/27/2012
Minneapolis, MN
5
4
9
9/27/2012
Tulsa, OK
1
0
1
9/28-9/30/12
Coffeyville, KS
2
2
4
9/28/2012
Chicago, IL
2
6
8
9/28/2012
Phoenix, AZ
1
0
1
9/29/2012
Chicago, IL
0
4
4
9/30/2012
Erie, PA
1
2
3
9/30/2012
Jackson, MS
2
0
2
9/30/2012
Philadelphia, PA
1
0
1
9/30/2012
Syracuse, NY
1
7
8
9/30/2012
Winter Springs, FL
2
1
3


70
159
229


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