McParadigm wrote:And this is in response to a tweet observing that 1 in 25 young people in the US won’t live to see 40?
The tweet is part of much larger thread so it's not great to interpret it out of context, but yeah that number doesn't mean much because there is no "average American" to base it on in the same way there is an average Japanese or Austrian or Swedish person. A much more interesting viz would be to break the US number down by state and compare it as US states are comparable to countries.
And to be clear, this has nothing do with Dime and references in my previous posts were about the author of the tweet, not him. Just because Dime posted it doesn't mean he agrees with it or in anyway obligated to defend or criticize it.
Florida seems like it's importing a certain age group.
The 4% won't make it to 40 stat included all causes of death, not just guns.
The author did post several times in the tweet thread about metabolic syndromes, which if addressed (Mounjaro/Ozempic) would save more American lives and healthcare expenditures than any other action. Possibly even more than a gun ban.
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
What’s so fucking crazy is our governor had a close personal friend that was killed at the school last week (indeed, she and her husband were supposed to have dinner with the governor and his wife that very night) and yet he won’t do anything to address gun control.
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
- C. Montgomery Burns
It wasn't school kids so the gun rights people will just say "if any of the civilians in the bank would have been carrying, this wouldn't have happened"
E.H. Ruddock wrote:It wasn't school kids so the gun rights people will just say "if any of the civilians in the bank would have been carrying, this wouldn't have happened"
Plus, wouldn't you want to live in a country where you don't have to pack a gun going out in public? Shouldn't we work to make that kind of society the status quo instead of reverting back to the Wild West?
E.H. Ruddock wrote:It wasn't school kids so the gun rights people will just say "if any of the civilians in the bank would have been carrying, this wouldn't have happened"
Plus, wouldn't you want to live in a country where you don't have to pack a gun going out in public? Shouldn't we work to make that kind of society the status quo instead of reverting back to the Wild West?
no, the founding fathers gave us the unalienable right to kill each other with firearms. that's what so great about this country, it was founded in the 1700s and hasn't evolved at all in some instances.
E.H. Ruddock wrote:It wasn't school kids so the gun rights people will just say "if any of the civilians in the bank would have been carrying, this wouldn't have happened"
Aren’t banks uniquely designed and prepared to stop armed threats? If somebody can shoot up a place like that, I don’t think we can expect anyplace to be safe in this climate.
