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We only have more anti-gun-violence activists because we have more gun violence. I forget where we are on the murders per capita scene, but I think we rank som
by MisterBastahrd 4y ago
We only have more anti-gun-violence activists because we have more gun violence. I forget where we are on the murders per capita scene, but I think we rank somewhere around Uruguay and Cameroon.
Great company while pretending to be "the leader of the free world."
- School-Cotton 4y agoI never claimed we are the leader of anything, and in fact I explicitly said that the US is not a democracy by many meaningful definitions of that word. I am the furthest thing from a US ultra-patriot who thinks we’re the greatest country in the world, so please don’t ascribe other people’s opinions to me. Tangent: other than their moderately elevated murder rate, what’s wrong with Uruguay? Is that supposed to be an example of some kind of uniquely shitty country by global standards? (It’s a bad one, if so — Uruguay is a wealthy and highly developed liberal democracy.) What specifically makes you assume that the US should be doing substantially better than Uruguay or be held to a higher standard?
- MisterBastahrd 4y agoI never specifically mentioned you, and I was referencing the rhetoric from our hyper-partisan anti-American "patriots" who fervently believe that the US is #1 in virtually everything.