• imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee
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      An average of like 10-15 children die every day in US due to being shot. Sure there are more that survive but look like SpongeBob here.

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        Thats a pretty solid dark joke. Itd also be more realistic and darker if spongebob was black.

        Bazinga

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        That’s probably true but not really an answer to the question. Most shot kids are victims of gang violence.

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          What do you think was meant by “or something?” The question was answered. Meme shows school kids shot up. Gangs or whatever shoots them up. Yes it happened today. Happens everyday.

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            Okay but it’s disingenuous. You can disagree. It’s a massive disparity between school deaths and gang violent deaths so I feel it warrants a little more clarity of communication.

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              I can see why you call it disingenuous but the point of the matter is that children are getting shot. You can break it down into as many catagories as you like, the bottom line is that far too many school aged children are dying violent deaths in a world that has enough knowledge and resources to know what the solutions are to prevent it. The only thing keeping that going at this point is political fuckery.

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              Is it a massive disparity or is it a simple common demoninator of guns are far too easy to obtain in the US? There is an incredibly strong correlation between stringent gun control and less school and gang shootings of children in many other nations.

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              What’s this obsession with minimising school shootings while maximising gang violence? Sounds very much like a racist dog whistle.

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                Because they have different causes and different solutions.

                Car crashes are killing X people; if you insist on treating all car crashes as though they were caused by someone intentionally driving into a crowd–versus inattentive drivers or driving drunk–then you aren’t going to be able to solve the problem.

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                  Idunno, making guns a lot harder to obtain would help a lot with both and so would replacing a lot of cops in both poorer neighborhoods and schools with social workers and mental health professionals 🤷

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                    replacing a lot of cops in both poorer neighborhoods

                    That’s a band-aid on a broken leg: useless. Social workers and mental health professionals aren’t going to help when the problem is poverty. What are they going to do, make you feel better about not being able to make rent, or getting your shitbox 20yo Toyota repo’d because your hours got cut and you couldn’t make the payments? Fix the economics, and the rest largely solves itself.

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                  I think you’re right in what you’re saying but not what I think you’re implying. The solution to one problem is mental health regulations, the solution to the other is improper use regulations. Which are different, but fall under the same umbrella.

                  Either way, taking about cars is exactly where I’d take the comparison because it’s the only other commonly owned (highly effective) weapon in the us. We require a license to use one and liability insurance to own one, then take that license away if you show that you can’t use it properly. That’s exactly what if like to see happen to guns.

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                    “Regulation” per se doesn’t actually solve the underlying problems, it just masks it. Solutions are things that address the underlying issue. In that case of most violent crime, that’s poverty, systemic racism, lack of opportunity, economic inequality, and so on. All of those things would also tend to decrease mental health issues, but going farther and making sure that people could realistically access good mental health help–without fear of loss of rights–would improve outcomes.

                    Moreover, in the example I used, there were three causes of crashes; there are absolutely, definitely cases of people using a car to intentionally kill pedestrians in indiscriminate attacks. Regulation doesn’t prevent that kind of abuse, unless you want to simply, y’know, entirely ban the use of all vehicles. Which would require entirely overhauling all of the infrastructure in the US.

                    As far as ‘school shootings’–which I’m defining as violence targeting schools with the intent of causing mass casualties–you don’t have a single solid cause. There’s a report–by the US Secret Service, I think?–that tried to nail down factors, and what they came up with was that there wasn’t any single thing that most or all of them had in common that wasn’t a legal and protected activity, or wasn’t common enough that targeting that factor wouldn’t have widespread unintended consequences. E.g., if 50% of the students that committed mass murders were bullied, then putting all bullied kids on a watch list would be punishing an enormous number of kids for the actions of a very tiny minority.

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        “Children” in that stat includes gang members and suicides. Still bad things, but don’t misrepresent what’s going on.

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          How is counting dead children misrepresenting what is going on? Dead is dead. When I say I want fewer guns it is because I want fewer deaths, gang members and depressed kids included.

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            A 17 yo in a gang that is shooting at other gang people and gets shot dead is the same thing as a 10 yo bystander?