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See also: End drug war with universal healthcare. And: Canadian single-payer healthcare versus US healthcare. And: Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war. And: Republican-NRA-led drug war, mandatory minimum sentences, and handguns.
Canada's murder rate is 1/3 the US rate[]
Households with handguns: Canada: 2.9%. USA: 21.9%.
Canada has far fewer handguns. And a much better healthcare system (single payer) than the US.
| Country | Murder rate per 100,000. 2020 |
|---|---|
| Canada | 2.0 |
| USA | 6.5 |
Yoko Ono tweet on Dec 8, 2020.
22% of US households with handguns[]
GunPolicy.org - Guns in the United States — Firearms, gun law and gun control. See the many references at the end of that page. See the data below by looking at the "Gun Numbers" section of the page, under "Civilian guns" and then under "Proportion of Households with Handguns": "In the United States, the percentage of households with one or more handguns is reported to be". It has more years than is copied below.
| 2012 | 21.9% |
| 2010 | 19.6% |
| 2000 | 20.5% |
| 1990 | 24.9% |
| 1980 | 24.9% |
| 1973 | 20.3% |
2.9% of Canadian households have handguns[]
GunPolicy.org - Canada — Gun Facts, Figures and the Law. (Archived here). From the "Gun Numbers" section of the page: "In Canada, the percentage of households with one or more handguns is reported to be":
| 2005: | 2.9% |
| 1999/2003: | 1.8% |
| 1995/98: | 2.3% |
| 1992/94: | 3.9% |
| 1989: | 5.2% |
Responses are from the 5 sweeps of the ICVS (1989-2005) and the EU ICS (2005), in which victims of crime were interviewed in 31 countries.
- ICVS: International Crime Victims Survey, Vienna, UNODC.
- EU ICS: European Survey of Crime and Safety (2005 EU ICS). Brussels, Gallup Europe.
Canada:
Most US firearm deaths are from handguns[]
Most firearm deaths in the USA are from handguns. [1][2].
In 2011, 72% of the 8,583 homicides committed using firearms in the United States were committed using handguns. See: Expanded Homicide Data Table 8 - Murder Victims by Weapon, 2007-2011. By the FBI (U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Guns are responsible for the largest share of U.S. homicides in over 80 years, federal mortality data shows., By Christopher Ingraham. April 2, 2018. Washington Post. "All told, in 2016 gun homicides made up 74.5 percent of all homicides in the United States — the highest share in well over 80 years of complete federal data."
More people killed by US domestic gunmen (1,516,863) since 1968 than in all wars fought by America (1,396,733). [3]. From June 13, 2016 article in The Express.
Western Europe severely restricts handguns[]
Nearly all of Western Europe bans or severely restricts handguns. Rifles and shotguns are legal to own. The murder rates are much lower than in the USA. See Wikipedia:
- List of countries by intentional homicide rate.
- List of countries by firearm-related death rate.
- Gun politics and Gun politics in Canada.
- Gun politics in the United States.
- Wikipedia: Estimated number of guns per capita by country. The table at this link may be out of date at times. For much more info look up the individual countries here:
- Gun Law and Policy: Firearms and armed violence, country by country.
- Gun Ownership By Country 2015: US Ranks First As Obama Calls For 'Common Sense' Laws. 24 July 2015. By Sarah Berger. International Business Times.
See also:
- How France cut its per capita gun ownership in half. By David Andelman. Feb. 26, 2018. CNN.
Firearm death rates in high-income countries[]
- How US gun culture compares with the world in five charts. By Kara Fox, CNN. Graphics by Henrik Pettersson, CNN. February 15, 2018. Chart below is from the article.
| Gun-related deaths in high-income countries. Deaths per million people. Suicides in gray on the left. Homicides in darker color on the right. USA is the long bloody line at the end. |
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Homicide rate is higher in the USA[]
Canada has a much lower murder rate. See:
Chart below. Homicide rates of USA (top line), Australia, Canada, Spain (ESP), Great Britain, and the Netherlands.
Above chart is from: OECD "How Was Life?", page 147. And this article.
Mass Incarceration and high murder rate damage U.S. Global Peace Ranking. June 9, 2016 article in U.S. News and World Report. See: Wikipedia: List of countries by incarceration_rate.
Percentage of homicides via firearms[]
Source: Page 18, Figure 11. International Statistics On Crime and Justice. European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control. Affiliated With the United Nations. Edited by S. Harrendorf, M. Heiskanen, S. Malby.
Lower gun death rates via gun control laws[]
- The Top 10 States For Gun Deaths — Guess How Many Are Blue With Strict Gun Control Laws. By Charles Topher. Dec. 7, 2015.
More numbers[]
NRA, handguns, youth murders in Chicago[]
Wikipedia: Percent of households with guns by country. Table listing percent of households possessing firearms and handguns by country.
The NRA refuses to acknowledge that countries with low rates of handgun ownership have much lower murder rates. Only nationwide handgun restriction works well.
The statistics do not show the terror and post-traumatic stress of living in the war zones where many urban high schools in the USA are found.
- Harper High School, Part One. Feb. 15, 2013. This American Life.
- Harper High School, Part Two. Feb. 22, 2013. This American Life.
"We spent five months at Harper High School in Chicago, where last year alone 29 current and recent students were shot. We went to get a sense of what it means to live in the midst of all this gun violence, how teens and adults navigate a world of funerals and Homecoming dances."
US leads in child gun death rates[]
Wikipedia: Danny Zuker. His Twitter feed.
See source article. By The Huffington Post.
Handguns and epic violence against women[]
Republican disinterest in women's rights, a sexual predator as President. By the way, pepper spray teargas is very effective. Keep a small one in your pocket.
Handguns are not the way to go. Homicide rates are much lower in nations that have blocked most handgun ownership. See Wikipedia: List of countries by intentional homicide rate.
20 Jan 2020: Crisis Boils Over as 28th Native Woman Vanishes. Yahoo News and New York Times: [4]. Read the comments. Some of the early facts may be wrong. But the overview of the issue is correct.
Article linked below covers it: Epic violence and domestic violence against women in these poor areas, tolerance of this violence, lack of statewide task forces, drug war, corrupt cops, good-ol-boy local police unchecked by state and federal authorities.
13 Jan, 2020: How Far Can Abused Women Go to Protect Themselves? The New Yorker.
NRA's heroic gunslinger myth[]
- Tactical Experts Destroy the NRA’s Heroic Gunslinger Fantasy. 5 Oct 2015. The Nation.
- More Combat Veterans come out to call NRA gun myths "insane". 7 Oct 2015. Daily Kos.
- Combat veterans shoot down NRA ‘fantasy world’ of ‘good guys with guns’. 7 Oct 2015. Raw Story.
10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down[]
- 10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down. By Dave Gilson. Jan. 31, 2013. Mother Jones.
High-capacity magazines should be banned[]
New Zealand bans types of semi-automatic weapons, high capacity magazines after mass shooting. 21 Mar 2019.
High-capacity magazines for rifles make some sense, but not much, in making the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution more effective as a bulwark against tyranny. But they cause far more damage in mass shootings. They should be banned. Both for handguns and long guns. See this article explaining why a single rifle shot is so much more deadly than a handgun shot:
- What I Saw Treating the Victims From Parkland Should Change the Debate on Guns. By Heather Sher. Feb. 2018. The Atlantic.
The proliferation of handguns is far more important in causing higher murder rates than long guns. Getting rid of handguns is what is necessary. Rifles and shotguns do not need to be banned. An "assault rifle" that is legal in the USA is just a semi-automatic rifle. Many hunting rifles are semi-automatic.
Fully-automatic rifles (machine guns) are no longer legal in the USA for the most part.
Handguns are laughable weapons for defending against tyranny. They should be banned since most murders in the USA are committed with them.
For more info and points of view:
- Wikipedia: Magazine (firearms). Magazines and clips.
- David Gregory Held Up A High-Capacity Magazine To See If The Head Of The NRA Would Budge On Anything. By Brett LoGiurato. Dec. 23, 2012. Business Insider.
- NRA Chief Calls For National Database Of The Mentally Ill And Says: If You Want To Call Me Crazy, Then Call Me Crazy. By Brett LoGiurato. Dec. 23, 2012. Business Insider.
- Why We Must Ban High-Capacity Gun Magazines. By Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy. April 6, 2011. Huffington Post.
Bump stocks should be banned[]
George Orwell, rifles, and tyranny[]
| George Orwell: "The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." -- January 8, 1941 in an article for the London Evening Standard. See source. |
The Republican Party (GOP) and the NRA are responsible for mass incarceration, and removing rifles and voting rights from millions of drug users and non-violent felons across the United States. See: Can Convicted Felon Purchase or Possess a Firearm?.
Handguns don't defend against tyranny. That is laughable. Rifles defend against tyranny. And the country of Orwell, the UK, bans handgun ownership for the most part. See Wikipedia: Gun politics in the United Kingdom. All handguns do is greatly increase the murder rate.
Cannabis is safer[]
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Note: The following sections are at: Cannabis and more. The big picture. On most WeedWiki pages.
Trump Calls for Death Penalty for Drugs (Again). And: Trump’s Ominous Acting-DEA Administrator Appointment. [5][6][7]. And: Trump: “We’re going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts”.
See article: Cannabis is safer. Cannabis is just one aspect of the drug war. See also: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. See: History of US Republican-led war on cannabis, and their lies about its health effects. Note the Republican states (in the South, for example) in the map below.
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GOP War on the Poor[]
Return to top. Section link. See also: Trump GOP war on poor, sick, disabled, and drug users. Republican war on the poor, and middle class. Since low minimum wages lower wages above it too. The inflation-adjusted minimum wage peaked at over $14 in 1968 (see chart on page 2). It has halved in real value down to $7.25 today. The stolen wages went to Trump's billionaire club, and stayed there due to Reagan and Trump's gutting of progressive taxation via tax cuts for the rich. See CRS chart. "Study after study has found that raising minimum wages has a positive effect on employment." - John Driscoll, of Patriotic Millionaires.org - Sep 12, 2024 article. See Facebook: Patriotic Millionaires. And see many maps showing the failings of Republican states. [16] [17] [18]. GOP states overall (as in the South) have the worst cannabis laws, lowest minimum wages, worst healthcare, etc..
| US minimum wage would be $25.52 an hour in 2023 if it had kept up with productivity. The split coincided with Nixon's 1971 declaration of a War on Drugs. |
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| Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. $7.25 states are majority Republican in both houses. Get PNG map noting GOP states. |
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| History of the US federal minimum wage. Over $14 (inflation-adjusted) peak in 1968. $7.25 an hour now due to Republican filibusters in the US Senate. |
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Billionaire tax rates[]
The minimal billionaire tax rates are maintained by the tyrannical 60% filibuster rule: What is the US Senate filibuster, and what would it take to eliminate it? Steep progressive tax rates on all types of billionaire income could be imposed by a simple majority through the nuclear option in the Senate.
See Wikipedia: Wealth inequality in the United States.
Google: Buy, Borrow, Die. Tax strategy of the rich to pay few taxes. See Google Images search, too. See the ProPublica video and articles: [20][21]. And other articles: [22][23][24][25].
First chart shows the absurdly low tax rate that billionaires pay on ALL their income, including untaxed capital and wealth gains.
| True US federal income tax rates for 4 very rich people if all wealth gains are counted as income. 2014 to 2018. See source. |
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Second chart shows the comparatively low tax rate that billionaires pay just on taxable income. So either way, billionaires pay a much lower percent of taxes than the middle class.
| Total taxes paid as a percent of taxable income for a few countries. By income group, and billionaires. |
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Republican states 2026[]
See article: US Republican (GOP) states. It is not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps showing the failings of GOP states. & Mirror. See category of these GOP-notated US maps. Note the GOP states in the South, for example. See category of these maps on the Wikimedia Commons.
In 2024 presidential election only 2 states voted unanimously red (Republican) or blue (Democrat) by county: Massachusetts and Oklahoma. You can google each of the rankings in the image below, and see that they are correct.
2024 election: Oklahoma map. And: Massachusetts map.
| See Fight for $15. US map below is percent of workers earning less than $15 per hour. Concerning the gray n/a states CEPR wrote: "States that had minimum wages of at least $15 and those that were between $14 and $15 were not analyzed." |
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All wealth to the top[]
Return to top. Section link. See Wikipedia: List of countries by household debt. All those stolen wages went to the minimally-taxed billionaire club that loaned it back to us. Since 1975, $79 Trillion Has Flowed From Bottom 90% to Top 1% in US: Analysis. Stephen Colbert satire video on billionaires. [28].
| Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2022. Wealth concentration in 2022 dollars. Congressional Budget Office. |
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| Facebook page with comments. See Commons image and info. |
| Mean household net worth of the bottom 40% is in the red (in debt). See table 1. Image source. 2013 data. |
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| April 12, 2025 post. See source and comments. |
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| A Jan. 2, 2025 post at Facebook: Patriotic Millionaires. See source and comments. |
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Tax cuts for the rich[]
Return to top. Section link. See: 'Crystal Clear' Polling Shows Voters Oppose Trump's Tax Cuts for Rich. [29][30]. Tax cuts should only be for the middle class and poor; paid for by tax increases on the rich. Trump's 2024 election proposals cut taxes for the richest 5 percent, and raise taxes for other groups. 2025 proposal: New Projected Cost of Trump-GOP Tax Cuts for the Rich: 'Staggering' $7 Trillion. [31].
Trump tax proposals below. 2024 election. Average tax changes by income group in 2026. From: A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan. Oct 7, 2024. Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
See free Commons image.
See free Commons image.
Debt slavery by the rich[]
Tariffs (regressive taxes), low minimum wages, high medical and student loan debts. Republicans like them all. All wealth to the top. Loaned back to us to enslave us. Healthcare Insights: How Medical Debt Is Crushing 100 Million Americans.
See Wikipedia: List of countries by household debt. All those stolen wages went to the billionaire club that loaned it back to us. $36 trillion US national debt.
| Wikipedia: Household debt in the United States. |
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| Wikipedia: National debt of the United States. |
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Canadian healthcare[]
Save $1.5 trillion yearly[]
Save $1.5 trillion yearly in the US. Canada spent 11.2 percent of its GDP for total healthcare costs in 2022. US spent 16.6 percent in 2022. 5.4% is the difference. 5.4% of US GDP is $1.5 trillion dollars in 2022. Universal single-payer healthcare savings, and progressive taxation, could pay off the $36 trillion US national debt. Total average healthcare spending per person in 2022: $6,319 for Canada. $12,555 for the US. Yet Canadians have a longer average lifespan. Share link.
Save another couple hundred billion dollars a year by making age 17 the age of adulthood. This saves $15,663 on average in taxes for one year of US high school. Parents save a year of living expenses. Use it all for college and trade schools which is much more useful and desired. Cut taxes further by lowering US incarceration rates to Canadian and Western European levels. See Short PNG image of table below (for sharing on social media). The US can have BETTER healthcare, at a much cheaper cost by cutting out the useless middlemen (insurance companies).
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Canada vs US GOP[]
Return to top. Section link. Facts: Recreational and medical cannabis is legal across Canada. Republicans (GOP) block both in US. In Canada the average per-person cost of their single-payer universal healthcare is half that of the US. And Canada has a longer average lifespan. As for the US read a UnitedHealthcare denial horror story, and many more. [32][33]. Stats article: "The company dismissed about one in every three claims in 2023 — the most of any major insurer. That's twice the industry average of 16%". See Wikipedia: Medical debt. It's much higher in the US, though Canada has a lot of dental medical debt. Both the US and Canada do not adequately support dental health. But the Canadian Dental Care Plan is solving that problem now. US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [34][35][36]. Republicans want to make Medicaid like UnitedHealthcare.
| Average annual health spending. US dollars (PPP) per person. OECD countries and more. |
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| Total public and private spending. $6,319 for Canada in 2022. $12,555 for the US in 2022. |
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Roswell. Warming[]
Carbon-free energy[]
And here on earth:
China’s BYD has a $16K “Tesla-killer,” as IEA finds EVs are an Oil Company-Killer.
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See JPG file.
Section link. Much UFO technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could end global warming. See Steven Greer (SG) documentary: The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It. [37][38][39][40][41]. SG documentaries for free: Tubi & [42][43][44][45][46] [47][48][49][50] [51][52][53]. JustWatch: [54][55][56] [57][58][59]. More SG media: [60][61][62] [63][64][65]. SG video channels: [66][67][68][69][70]. SG witness testimonies: [71][72][73][74]. His National Press Club events: 2023. 2001. See drstevengreer.com site. [75]. SG interviews: [76][77][78][79] [80][81][82][83]. SG's Disclosure Project Intelligence Archive. [84][85]. More SG info: [86][87][88] [89][90][91][92]. See also the David Grusch, David Fravor, and Ryan Graves disclosures at July 26, 2023 House hearing about US possession of aliens, alien bodies, alien craft, and back engineering: [93][94][95][96] [97][98][99][100][101] [102][103][104][105] [106][107][108]. Disclosure Timeline and Diaries. See: The Battle for Disclosure. (2024). [109]. See "The Program" (2024). [110]. See History channel: [111][112][113] [114][115][116][117]. National Geographic: [118][119][120][121]. See: Bob Lazar and George Knapp. See Rendlesham Forest UFO witness interviews. [122]. See Whitley Strieber interview. Other documentaries: [123] (scroll down).
See the July 8, 1947 Roswell Daily Record below. Image info. Click image to enlarge. Full-size is readable. See full text of saucer article. [124]. U.S. Army officer Walter Haut issued the initial "flying disk" press release. His 2002 notarized affidavit said there were 2 crash sites, and that he had seen a craft, alien bodies, and handled wreckage material. (see page 14 of pdf). It was released in a 2007 book after his death in 2005. The 20 paragraph 2002 affidavit is also online here: [125] (page 14). [126][127][128][129][130]. 37 witnesses to the Roswell shape memory foil. [131][132][133] [134][135][136]. Page 54 of Jesse Marcel, Jr. book. Crumple it and it uncrumples without creases. Did not exist in 1947.
July 8, 1947. See JPG page with full text transcribed.
Walter Haut in 1947. See JPG file.
2002 affidavit is on pages 239-242 of the 2022 edition: Witness to Roswell, 75th Anniversary Edition: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-up (more eyewitnesses). 36 pages previewed in Google Books. Click "preview" button and scroll down to pages 239-240. Search within the book. There is an inexpensive Kindle ebook. Moonwalker Dr. Edgar Mitchell wrote the foreword.
Haut's daughter, Julie Shuster, in 2002, 3 years before his death, "verbally discussed each and every sentence" of the affidavit with him. She said it was not a deathbed confession. See Sept 2007 MUFON UFO Journal. Issue 473. Page 15. And this article from Special Broadcasting Service. Archived. See Julie Shuster on IMDb.
Google search: Walter Haut 2002 Roswell affidavit. Articles about Haut:
30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Same article also published here and here. Archived here and here.
5 June 2022: Roswell officer's deathbed confession about theory of alien cover up. By Declan Carey. Archived here.
14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video.
May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article (emphasis added): "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors."
August 3, 2024: The Roswell UFO story still resonates around the world 77 years later. By John Purvis (CBS4). Archived here. Article is on the KDBC-TV website: cbs4local.com
There are many books uncovering many witnesses to the Roswell crafts, materials, and bodies. A snip from a book review of this book:
| What the Generals Said about Roswell: - "It was a cover story, the balloon part of it ... That was the story we were told to give to the public and the news people, and that was it." Brigadier General Thomas J. DuBose, USAF - "The [Roswell] craft was extraterrestrial, and at one time may have been at Wright-Patterson in an off-limits area." Brigadier General Harry N. Cordes, USAF - "I am almost completely convinced that the object that crashed near Roswell was composed of materials not common on earth." Major General Kenner F. Hertford, USA - "The stuff I saw, I've never seen anyplace else in my life … It was the strangest thing I ever saw." General William H. Blanchard, USAF - "They [the Air Force] knew that they had something new in their hands … The metal and material was unknown to anyone I talked to … A couple of guys thought it might be Russian, but the final consensus was that the pieces were from space." [i.e., extraterrestrial] Brigadier General Arthur E. Exon, USAF - "Stealth technology comes from the Roswell crash … I have been informed by higher officers at the Pentagon that there still exists a Top Secret UFO Project … That's where your Roswell file is." |
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