Firearms killed a record number of children in 2021, study finds
Firearms killed a record number of children in 2021, study finds
U.S. children and teens are more likely to die because of guns than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer.
U.S. children and teens are more likely to die because of guns than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer.
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i don't remember guns being able to pull the trigger, i thought somebody else had to do that
somebody
Yup. But you know who doesn't shoot kids? The people that don't have guns.
You know who doesn't have guns? Adult gang members. They make the kids carry them, so the adults don't catch a heavy charge.
You don't need to have a gun to get someone killed. You just have to convince a kid to pull the trigger for you.
Know who else doesn't have guns? Adult gang members
In countries where it's almost impossible to get one
Yeah remember when Adam Lanza killed 26 people (mostly kids!) with a ball peen hammer? Or how sometimes kids accidentally stab their friends to death with their dad’s chef knife they found unsecured. I hate it when that happens.
To be completely fair about it, we have to remember that the overwhelming majority of minors killing and being killed with guns are directly involved in criminal gangs. Accidents are rare; school shooting deaths rarer still. Adult gang members are calling on these kids to commit violent acts on their behalf. These kids killing and being killed with guns are doing exactly what is expected and demanded of them by the "role models" in their lives.
It is rather disingenuous to blame the guns when their "mentors" are putting them in their hands and demanding they use them.
Gun violence is a symptom, not the disease. Trying to solve it by taking away the guns is like trying to cure tuberculosis with Robitussin. It hasn't worked, doesn't work, can't work. At best, it masks a symptom while the disease spreads. You need to eradicate the infection to cure the disease. If we want to tackle kids killing and being killed, we have to target the conditions that lead to them to associate with the violent, criminal gangs that actively seek these murders.
You are using the tired old fallacious gunnit claims about gun deaths only being "gang killings", which even the article in question thoroughly refutes.
Trying to solve it by taking away the guns is like trying to cure tuberculosis with Robitussin. It hasn’t worked, doesn’t work, can’t work.
Funny how it works in almost all other countries (and certainly in all other rich Western countries) but the US though.
the overwhelming majority of minors killing and being killed with guns are directly involved in criminal gangs.
Citation needed.
majority of minors killing and being killed with guns are directly involved in criminal gangs. Accidents are rare; school shooting deaths rarer still.
Just imagine living in a civilized country instead, where those things basically don't happen.
Indeed. We desperately need universal healthcare and measures to address wealth and income inequity.
Meth can't smoke itself!
It's hard to trigger a gun that does not exist.
Aside from natural disasters that tends to be true for a lot of things that kill people. And I'm pretty sure we still talk about those.
Almost like we put outrageous exceptions on guns vs all other kinds of dangerous tools we use.
your ignorance isn't important
Not many are being shot from walking around saying "bang".
It's a shared experience. It's like a lot things in life. Crack doesn't smoke itself and wives don't beat themselves up. It's almost like their are more complicated things than useless reduction rhetoric of a mindless fool.
You’re exactly right. And notice how instead of trying to eradicate crack from the earth, instead we’re treating people that abuse it and trying to stop people from doing so in the first place.
The same is said for alcohol, cigarettes, etc. Don’t get me wrong - harsher restrictions need to be put in place. But as you said, it’s complicated.
Even though a lot of gunnits certainly behaves that way, guns aren't actually drugs and can't be compared to drugs in any shape or form.
Gladius was the one who compared them to drugs. I was just following their analogy.
Thanks for agreeing. It makes my life easier.