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Jul 5 2024 03:23pm
Quote (Sixers @ Jul 5 2024 11:08pm)
The truth hurts. This is reality. I'm doing nothing but educating you on the ZOMG SO MANY SCHOOL SHOOTING deaths bullshit. That's literally a drop in the bucket with U.S. deaths.

In reality, considering how many people live in the U.S. and how many civilian owned guns there are (more than 1 gun for every civilian), it's simply overblown. Does it suck when it happens? Definitely, we can all agree it's horrific. But is it as big of an issue as you make it out to be? No.


I think you don't understand the meaning and you are disrespecting the lives of these children by alot. I will post this picture and no more discussion about it.

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I think you don't understand the meaning and you are disrespecting the lives of these children by alot. I will post this picture and no more discussion about it.

https://i.imgur.com/mvhSwgN.png


You can literally combine the populations of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and UK. The U.S. still has a larger population.

Then again, you're listing a bunch of inferior countries, most of whom don't even have guns, who rely on the U.S. to protect them.


So, yeah. Maybe focus on other more relevant issues than something that impacts a ridiculously low % of Americans.
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Jul 5 2024 03:43pm
Between 2010-2020, 539 Americans died in mass shootings. That's a 1.6 in 1 Million chance of dying in a mass shooting.

During that same time, France saw 168 mass shooting deaths. That's a 2.49 in 1 Million chance of dying in a mass shooting.

This means during that decade, your chances of dying in a mass shooting were significantly higher in France, a country that has strict gun laws, than they were in the U.S, a country with more civilian owned guns than civilians.


But carry on...

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God Bless America!

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It's a holiday you sickos..

Here's some "fun" stuff.


Go here and scroll down and read some "Loochi" stories (just start at the top)... if you ever played Diablo II, they're hilarious. :)

https://forums.d2jsp.org/user.php?i=232603

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Celebrate freedom but unwilling to fight for it.
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Quote (Sixers @ Jul 5 2024 10:37pm)
You can literally combine the populations of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and UK. The U.S. still has a larger population.

Then again, you're listing a bunch of inferior countries, most of whom don't even have guns, who rely on the U.S. to protect them.


So, yeah. Maybe focus on other more relevant issues than something that impacts a ridiculously low % of Americans.


Correct, but it was 57 times as many shooting as those countries combined.

The difference in population is about 25million more in the US.
About 7.5% more.
For 57 times as many school shootings.

Those numbers indicate a problem, by any rational set of beliefs.

We can disagree on how important of a problem that is but common sense would suggest it should be a priority for a great nation not to have their kids school shot up 57 times more than another industrialized nation.

Again I totally think the US is a great nation but many aspects are squishy targets for anyone being critical. That could include Americans.
Gun crime, opioid crisis, homelessness, wealth disparity, workers rights.

Aside from gun crime.european countries have all of those issues too at similar extents. But they also have a way stronger social safety net; some might even argue its too strong, bloated and wasteful. Benefits, national health care etc.

This post was edited by Prox1m1ty on Jul 6 2024 03:28am
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