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Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Mon April 03, 2023 9:53 am
by elliseamos
Bi_3 wrote: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.
Now how do the gun laws of these states compare?
Seems like that might play a role.
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Mon April 03, 2023 6:19 pm
by Bi_3
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.
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Wed April 05, 2023 2:55 pm
by Stickman
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Wed April 05, 2023 5:13 pm
by warehouse
ah yes, more common sense gun laws
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Wed April 05, 2023 6:20 pm
by simple schoolboy
We're at half the states being constitutional carry and there's been no significant fall out, crime wise.
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Wed April 05, 2023 6:36 pm
by warehouse
you've already demonstrated you are part of the problem
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Wed April 05, 2023 6:37 pm
by simple schoolboy
warehouse wrote:you've already demonstrated you are part of the problem
Pearls: clutched
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Fri April 07, 2023 8:36 pm
by wease
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.
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Mon April 10, 2023 3:02 pm
by spike
11 more shot, 5 dead, but at least we still have our precious 2A.
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Mon April 10, 2023 5:30 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
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"
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Mon April 10, 2023 5:33 pm
by Coach
ban ar 15s
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Mon April 10, 2023 5:57 pm
by blueviper
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?
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Mon April 10, 2023 6:08 pm
by warehouse
blueviper wrote: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.
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Mon April 10, 2023 10:17 pm
by spike
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.
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Tue April 11, 2023 12:05 am
by elliseamos
The robots will decide all this soon...
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Tue April 11, 2023 12:08 am
by dad
eventually, all the good guys with guns are going to put a stop to this.
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Tue April 11, 2023 12:14 am
by blueviper
Thank god Missouri is getting rid of the tax on ammo and guns..
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Tue April 11, 2023 12:28 am
by doug rr
blueviper wrote:Thank god Missouri is getting rid of the tax on ammo and guns..
when is free gun night at Busch stadium?
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Tue April 11, 2023 5:13 pm
by blueviper
doug rr wrote:blueviper wrote:Thank god Missouri is getting rid of the tax on ammo and guns..
when is free gun night at Busch stadium?
I'll let you know.
Re: America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?
Posted: Tue April 11, 2023 8:00 pm
by B