SupraMario

Jeffw:

https://lemmy.world/comment/11037065

It matters for media coverage because gang wars are different than “innocent little granny shot by lone wolf”

Me:

It matters because it is used as a agenda to make the public feel like we have random mass shootings daily. It %100 matters.

https://lemmy.world/comment/11038717

No, no it doesn’t. Everywhere that has gun control also has social safety nets… everywhere they have gun control and no safety nets, its bad. Brazil and Mexico… please explain those two countries which have very high firearm homicides but the gun laws there basically ban civilians from owning firearms.

It’s crazy that you should know a topic and be informed on it to discuss it? Really? You’re literally talking like the anti-abortion/anti-contraception dicks who wave their bibles around. So yes, it’s good to be informed on a topic.

What a silly thought.

No it is not, a 19/18 year old is A) not a child, and B) those numbers are from COVID as I have explained already. People couldn’t drive, so that lowered the deaths which historically have been the number one thing, and suicides went up.

Once numbers for 2023/post COVID are released it’ll be back to cars being the number one cause.

Unless you have proof and a source, you’re literally telling me to not make something up… while making something up.

They literally said the same thing I did.

I mean I did answer your question, you where just hoping for someone else to give you a different answer.

Yep, they include usually all the way to 19 years old as a child.

What a stupid comparison. Guns have one purpose - destruction. You can talk about all the things you can do with guns, but their intended purpose and design is to destroy. The better they destroy shit, the more valuable they are. They’re nothing without that.

Yep, no argument there, but that wasn’t my point.

Pools and hot tubs are not that, and provide value to families and communities in other ways. Also, it’s water. Literally water. And many areas have building codes surrounding pools and their safety. Mainly fences and safety covers. Homeowners insurance is also more expensive when you own a pool.

You do know how many laws there are on the books for firearms right? It’s over 20k laws in state and federal gov.

Does that stop every child from drowning? No. Do we know how many times a child was saved because a pool was legally required to have a fence or safety cover? Also no.

What’s the point of this? You don’t know how many kids on average are stopped by a safer either.

Also, there is no one running around with pools or hot tubs in their pockets drowning children en masse.

Again, so it doesn’t matter that 950 kids a year on average drown, because that’s just the deaths you’re willing to take to have access to a body of water right?

Semantics matter greatly. The general public hears mass shooting and thinks, random act of violence. They don’t hear “3am crack house was shot up by rival gang”.