Concealed carry; open carry; Constitutional carry; ghost guns; "stand your

[Atticus]

ground" statutes; white supremacy and antisemitic militias; a White House that spewed racism, bigotry and misogyny for four years ------------

Any idea why shooting deaths have greatly increased?

(NOTE: "Biden's fault" has already been taken.)

[justhanginon]

2. Something I pondered while in service. Never really knew and thankfully

never had to make that choice.

[justhanginon]

4. Yes. If it comes down to me or thee I think self preservation would take over.

I think being in a firefight on the battlefield a whole new mental perspective may overide some moral doubts one might have.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

6. 2 tours in Vietnam,

involved in several firefights and to this day, I don't know, nor do I want to know, if I ever killed or wounded anyone.


The majority of people don't want to shoot anyone unless absolutely forced to, and that applied to me and most Military personnel.

[XRubicon]

5. Cops

See police unions
See police union support for tfg

[maxsolomon]

7. it could be as simple as: More Guns, More Shootings.

Although I believe the Pandemic Restrictions have increased the general level of anger and frustration as normal social releases have disappeared. Anger has gotten mightily pent-up, and men have to shoot something.

If you take the drop in shootings that occurred in 2020 and added the increase in 2021, it probably matches 2019. That's a guess, though.