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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
by 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 agoThat'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 agoThe 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...