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Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:25 am
by DispositionMatrix
INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS WILL EXAMINE GUN VIOLENCE IN THE U.S.
The hearing was requested by Amnesty International USA, the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law, the Center for American Progress, and Instituto Igarape to examine how gun violence in the United States affects the Organization of American States member countries. The hearing is a follow-up to Amnesty International’s testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Bogotá, Colombia in February 2018 laying out the ways in which the U.S. is failing to fulfill its human rights obligations to address gun violence.
“This hearing will bring much needed international attention to the urgent and escalating problem of gun violence in the United States, which has become so prevalent that it amounts to a human rights crisis,” said Ernest Coverson, campaign manager of the End Gun Violence campaign at Amnesty International USA. “The ability to go about one’s daily life in security and dignity, free from fear, is at the very cornerstone of human rights and it’s well past the time that the United States government reformed its laws and policies to enact gun control.”
The hearing will examine the impact on survivors of the U.S government’s failure to address gun violence, and the commission will hear testimony from individuals who have survived gun violence in the context of domestic violence, children involved in gun homicides, as well as individuals from disproportionately impacted communities of color and others across U.S. borders who are living with the life-long repercussions of the government’s inadequate regulation of firearms.
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:40 am
by Marlene
Wow. That’s some serious bending of reality.
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:07 am
by hotelkilo
I... I can't even. (implodes)
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:22 am
by highdesert
It's all the guns, no mention of poverty, corruption, lack of sanitation and education and health care ... I strongly suspect someplace in the background is Everytown, Moms, GAG and every other anti-gun group controlling the agenda.
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:24 am
by lurker
highdesert wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:22 am
It's all the guns, no mention of poverty, corruption, lack of sanitation and education and health care ... I strongly suspect someplace in the background is Everytown, Moms, GAG and every other anti-gun group controlling the agenda.
yes, that seems pretty obvious. "for the children"
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:54 am
by CDFingers
No mention of suicide.
pffft
CDFingers
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:08 pm
by K9s
Marlene wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:40 am
Wow. That’s some serious bending of reality.
They ARE going to look at the police in those communities, right? Human rights and gun deaths... means looking at Chicago PD and LAPD and others, right? Ferguson?
No?
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:54 pm
by featureless
K9s wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:08 pm
Marlene wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:40 am
Wow. That’s some serious bending of reality.
They ARE going to look at the police in those communities, right? Human rights and gun deaths... means looking at Chicago PD and LAPD and others, right? Ferguson?
No?
That's definitely part of it. Gun violence in the US
is a human rights violation, but it is largely limited to inner city young black men due to social, economic inequities and our ever so successful war on drugs. If we ever want to "solve" gun homicide in the US (not talking about the media portrayal of scared white folk, reluctant to step forth from their domiciles for fear of being mass shot), we must start with acknowledging where it is happening, why it is happening and that it will take real work at the human to human level rather than band-aid approaches to solve. I doubt this commission will be so bold and will simply recommend some new bans that won't work because the underlying issues will be ignored.
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:16 pm
by CDFingers
Call it Urban Violence. That's the kind they're really talking about, not the suicides--largest percentage.
Urban violence.
CDFingers
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:22 pm
by featureless
CDFingers wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:16 pm
Urban violence.
Yup.
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:08 pm
by senorgrand
When did "freedom from fear" become a right? Sounds likes something DJT would say to get his wall built.
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:13 pm
by rascally
senorgrand wrote:When did "freedom from fear" become a right? Sounds likes something DJT would say to get his wall built.
FDR..."Four Freedoms" speech, January 6, 1941.
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:15 pm
by senorgrand
Yeah...WWI and the Communist Scare too...
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:30 pm
by tonguengroover
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 4:37 am
by khlavkalash
Gun violence is at a low. General violence is at a low. I think we are in one of the top 10 lowest 3 year periods since this stuff was recorded.
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:01 am
by Marlene
But Americans ARE the bad guy, just not in that way.
Re: Inter-American Commision to hold hearing on "gun violence" in the US
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:20 am
by K9s
Marlene wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:01 am
But Americans ARE the bad guy, just not in that way.
Urbanites and liberals and non-Christians and socialists are the real problem, according to my state and federal government "representatives".