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There are other options to solve this problem but the US is unwilling. So instead we have blogposts about bullet proofing childrens school supplies.

• giantg2 4y ago
  Can you name a country where there are no mass shootings? Arguably this item could be as useful anywhere as in the US. Mass shootings are rare per capita, even in the US. The risk is negligible yet people will still buy these products. Edit: the point is that the low effort comment of other countries passing laws and not needing this are not adding to the discussion. You can find armor products for civilians, including backpacks, in other countries that have low levels of gun violence. If the problem is truly solved in that country then why do they still sell these products? The point should be to have an actual discussion about what would fix the issue. You mention laws, but then there's no mention of what those laws would entail.
  • rektide 4y ago
    There's no nation with anywhere near the general economic health of the USA doing anywhere remotely as bad at gun violence as us. Excusing our shittiness by hiding behind a flacid excuse that guns kill people everywhere is ignoring the truth. It's a coward act to ignore how wildly disproprotionately off balance we are. Please acknowledge that there's a real issue, that this isnt a reasonable or civil condition. Something is structurally wrong when society doesnt try to improve out of these conditions, when it only offers faint hopes & prayers & no actions. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/24/980838151/gun-violence-deaths-how-the-u-s-compares-to-the-rest-of-the-world https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/24/9808381...