Would America Be Better Off Without the Second Amendment? (From Media Bias Monthly)

Dear Readers, Subscriber, and other parties:

Lately there has been a lot of bluster about repealing the 2nd Amendment. 

The Washington Post recently published an article entitled "The terrible 

numbers that grow with each mass shooting" by Bonnie Berkowitz, 

Denise Lu and Chris Alcantara, (Updated Nov. 9, 2018) 

"It looks at the 158 shootings in which four or more people were killed by a 

lone shooter (two shooters in a few cases). It does not include shootings 

tied to gang disputes or robberies that went awry, and it does not include 

domestic shootings that took place exclusively in private homes. A broader 

definition would yield much higher numbers."

"The 1,135 people who were killed came from nearly every imaginable race, 

religion and socioeconomic background. Their ages range from the unborn 

to the elderly; 186 were children and teenagers. In addition, thousands of 

survivors were left with devastating injuries, shattered families and 

psychological scars."

Wow, 1,135 Americans have been killed by other Americans in "mass shootings," 

this is tragic. Indeed, for every person killed in a "mass shooting" there are tragic 

losses. Someone loses a friend or a loved-one and in the words of Joseph Stalin, 

"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million men is a statistic." 

Perhaps Bonnie Berkowitz, Denise Lu and Chris Alcantara are of the opinion that 

the United States of America should be more like other countries around the world 

which prohibit the private ownership of firearms. The leftist-socialist aristocracy of 

today's America believe only the ruling-intellectual classes should be in possession 

of firearms, and even these will be wielded by "trained professionals" who magically 

understand the complex nature of defensive firearm usage.

The pundit and ruling-intellectual classes pine for America to adopt a  firearms 

ownership policy "more in line with Europe and other countries." How would 

America's mass shooting body-count look by comparison? Here is a list of countries 

where the population did not (does not) have a 2nd Amendment and their death 

totals (+/-). 

Killed by the Japanese: 60,000 Koreans, 6 million Chinese, (not including Filipinos, 

Malaysians, Burmese, and others) 

Killed by the Germans: 6 million Jews, 21 million Russians, (not including Poles, 

Yugoslavians, French, Greeks, and others).

Killed by the Soviets: 10 to 20 million Ukrainians, 2 million Afghans,  

Killed by the Communist Chinese: 30 million Chinese, (and still counting).

Killed by the Rwandans: 800,000 Rwandans

Killed by the Yugoslavians:  585,000 to 2 million (WW1 and WW2, Kosovo, too 

many conflicts and ethnic groups to count, just skip it.)

Killed by the Cambodians: 1.6 to 1.8 million Cambodians

At this point the deaths of people who were never allowed to own their own guns 

could stand from 78 million to 87 million not including how many other wars, conflicts, 

and perpetrated by how many despotic governments around the world? 

Would America be better off without the 2nd Amendment? Let's see, 1,135 killed 

compared to 78 million to 87 million. As the old saying goes, "You do the math."

"Firearms stand next to the constitution itself. They are the 

American peoples' liberty teeth and keystone of independence" 

-- President George Washington

for Media Bias Monthly,

John D. Long, Editor