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Between social media, climate destabilization/inaction, and rampant gun violence in the US, I am not surprised.

hummus_bae 4y ago
> rampant gun violence in the US There is no gun violence in the US. There is violent crime. There is murder. They are different things.
- officeplant 4y ago
  And yet there are charts of just how much of either were done via gun courtesy of the FBI and other crime statistics logging entities in the US. It's pretty clear we have a gun problem and for a long time.
nradov 4y ago
Gun violence is hardly rampant in the US. The violence is heavily concentrated in a few neighborhood of a few cities. We should absolutely do more to reduce violence in those areas, but the vast majority of teen girls have never seen a gun fired outside of a shooting range or hunting preserve. My city has zero shootings most years. https://www.brookings.edu/2022/04/21/mapping-gun-violence-a-closer-look-at-the-intersection-between-place-and-gun-homicides-in-four-cities/ https://www.brookings.edu/2022/04/21/mapping-gun-violence-a-...
- spogbiper 4y ago
  last I looked into this, over 50% of gun related deaths in the US are suicides
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- miguelazo 4y ago
  To pretend that young girls aren't affected by hearing about the frequent school/mass shootings in the US is pretty ridiculous. That affects them far more than gang violence in "a few neighborhoods of a few cities"-- it's something that they relate to directly, whether someone they know has been shot at in an educational setting or not. Spare us the firearm fundamentalist talking points. Edit: Also, gun violence isn't rampant in the US? Compared to what? Certainly rampant compared to any peer society.
  - akomtu 4y ago
    That's what the news choose to report. If they talked instead about car crashes, those teen girls would refuse to be around cars, and if the news talked about diabetes, cancer and heart diseases - the true dangers in our society - those teen girls would be paranoidal about their sugar level and blood pressure.
    - miguelazo 4y ago
      The news talks about car crashes all the time. It also covers chronic disease, which can somewhat be mitigated through personal lifestyle choices (assuming one isn't among the large impoverished population of the US). Mass shootings happen all the time in the US (more than one per day on average) and are only reported nationally at this point when the body count is high enough. https://www.insider.com/number-of-mass-shootingsin-america-this-year-2022-5 https://www.insider.com/number-of-mass-shootingsin-america-t...

> rampant gun violence in the US There is no gun violence in the US. There is violent crime. There is murder. They are different things.

officeplant 4y ago
And yet there are charts of just how much of either were done via gun courtesy of the FBI and other crime statistics logging entities in the US. It's pretty clear we have a gun problem and for a long time.

nradov 4y ago

Gun violence is hardly rampant in the US. The violence is heavily concentrated in a few neighborhood of a few cities. We should absolutely do more to reduce violence in those areas, but the vast majority of teen girls have never seen a gun fired outside of a shooting range or hunting preserve. My city has zero shootings most years. https://www.brookings.edu/2022/04/21/mapping-gun-violence-a-closer-look-at-the-intersection-between-place-and-gun-homicides-in-four-cities/ https://www.brookings.edu/2022/04/21/mapping-gun-violence-a-...

spogbiper 4y ago
last I looked into this, over 50% of gun related deaths in the US are suicides
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miguelazo 4y ago
To pretend that young girls aren't affected by hearing about the frequent school/mass shootings in the US is pretty ridiculous. That affects them far more than gang violence in "a few neighborhoods of a few cities"-- it's something that they relate to directly, whether someone they know has been shot at in an educational setting or not. Spare us the firearm fundamentalist talking points. Edit: Also, gun violence isn't rampant in the US? Compared to what? Certainly rampant compared to any peer society.
- akomtu 4y ago
  That's what the news choose to report. If they talked instead about car crashes, those teen girls would refuse to be around cars, and if the news talked about diabetes, cancer and heart diseases - the true dangers in our society - those teen girls would be paranoidal about their sugar level and blood pressure.
  - miguelazo 4y ago
    The news talks about car crashes all the time. It also covers chronic disease, which can somewhat be mitigated through personal lifestyle choices (assuming one isn't among the large impoverished population of the US). Mass shootings happen all the time in the US (more than one per day on average) and are only reported nationally at this point when the body count is high enough. https://www.insider.com/number-of-mass-shootingsin-america-this-year-2022-5 https://www.insider.com/number-of-mass-shootingsin-america-t...