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Numbers that seem to show lots of deaths to "kids" pretty much always include age ranges old enough to include gang members. So what if they were? It's pretty
by glhaynes 4y ago
Numbers that seem to show lots of deaths to "kids" pretty much always include age ranges old enough to include gang members.
So what if they were? It's pretty damn sad for a person young enough to be considered a child to die from gun violence regardless of who they were! A sad societal failure on top of our failure to set them up with life circumstances that made them unlikely to fall in with a gang.
- 1123581321 4y agoIt matters because it’s ineffective to pursue the wrong root causes.
- Teever 4y agoAgreed. We should implement policies that prevent guns from getting into the hands of children, regardless of whether they're gang members or not.
- 1123581321 4y agoSarcasm noted. Hopefully you understand a multi-pronged approach is needed.
- Teever 4y agoI'm not being sarcastic. A multi-pronged approach that involves reducing the amount of guns in American is a surefire way to reduce access to guns by children, both in gangs and out.
- 1123581321 4y agoSarcasm might’ve been the wrong word. I meant to say I see you reusing whatever words I write to disagree with them.
- wkat4242 4y agoThat'll be very very difficult. Even very restrictive weapon ownership countries like Netherlands and Sweden have a big violent gang problem. And a policy as strict as they have is just totally unthinkable in the political reality of the US. So a policy stricter than the US can have isn't enough to solve this problem. That's why it's better to aim at reducing accidental underage gun deaths which is much more achievable.
- Teever 4y agoIt's so bizarre that America is the only country in the world that seems to face these kinds of problems. As a Canadian who grew up in a household with a dozen firearms, I never once touched those firearms, and hardly ever saw them until I was taken to the range by my father and taught how to use them.
- erik_seaberg 4y agoIt wasn’t a problem for rural American kids to have access to guns in the 1950s. My dad routinely hunted small game before class.
- anon291 4y agoAmerica is the only first world country to border South and Central America, which is the region of the world with a homicide rate orders of magnitude above any other. It is no surprise violence spills over due to proximity.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agoI'm very interested in this border between South America and the US. most maps seem to be hiding it. also, fun fact, when your government spends a hundred years assisting coups of democratic or socialist governments, those counties are going to have a lot of political instability.
- jjav 4y ago> America is the only first world country to border South and Central America The United States has one border with a central America country (Mexico). Please show on the map where it has a border with any south American country?