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Another Trans attempts attack on schools

Jimmy

King Phenomenon
Yes, American culture is profoundly ill. It's veru violent, filled with dangerous cops, and despite the wealth there is still staggeting and abysmal poverty and medical emergencies can financially end someone.
Unfortunately it isn't perfect. My culture that I celebrate is good
 

JDMS

Academic Workhorse
Each year about 100 children are killed and 254,000 are injured as a result of bicycle-related accidents.

Does our culture also show we are more bicycle happy than kid happy

111 people are shot and killed every day in the US. That's a lot more than 100 in bike accidents a year. These two things are hardly comparable. Also, guns are literally designed to kill. A bike is not.
 

We Never Know

No Slack
Injured vs killed. If you didn't skin your knees at least a few times as a kid you managed to have a ****tier and more deprived childhood than I did.
We shouldn't have to explain this amd why that's a crap grasp at straws.

"Each year about 100 children are killed as a result of bicycle-related accidents"

No matter how you look at it, its still 100 kids killed
 

SomeRandom

Still learning to be wise
Staff member
Premium Member
Each year about 100 children are killed and 254,000 are injured as a result of bicycle-related accidents.

Does our culture also show we are more bicycle happy than kid happy
Your culture has been routinely mocked as one giving nothing but words in relation to the unusually high rate of gun deaths of kids
Even BoJack Horseman did that and no one thought twice about it. Because it’s been referenced in comedy for the last 50 years (South Park has referenced it, The Simpsons referenced it, even Family Guy referenced it) because it’s so universally known.
You guys have an usually high rate of death in premature births in first world nations. That’s not my doing, that’s your stats
Something that other nations routinely mock, since your healthcare is seen as barbaric and despicable
That doesn’t mean that I think that Americans don’t value healthcare. That’s dumb. I’m merely reacting to the output from America as a nation.
Blame your fellow constituents
Not me
 

JDMS

Academic Workhorse
The current discussion is "kids killed". Get caught up.

Fine.

1839 children are killed by guns a year. 100 children is 5.5% of that enormous number. And I notice you chose to ignore the part about guns being designed to kill. Interesting.
 

JDMS

Academic Workhorse
"Guns are literally designed to kill"

I totally agree. Mine kill deer, turkey, squirrel, rabbit, wild hogs, elk, coyote, etc etc.

None of mine have killed a human.

Yes. They are designed to kill. Doesn't matter what. You appear to be making the assumption that I'm implying something with what I said when all I was doing was pointing out a fact.
 

Jimmy

King Phenomenon
Well hopefully all the problems in all the counties in the world can become smaller and smaller. I pray for that to happen.
 

Jimmy

King Phenomenon
If I knew why bad things happened I’d be a billionaire. I wish I knew. I don’t know why people shoot children in schools. It’s not because they were bullied because one can get counseling for that. I don’t know why drug dealers shoot drug dealers. It’s not about money because one can work elsewhere. I don’t know why. Perhaps it’s because there frontal lobe isnt fully developed and they don’t understand the gravity of their crime
 

JDMS

Academic Workhorse
Thanks

Here's my question....

If guns are the problem, why haven't my guns killed any humans?

Because you responsibly use them, and no one has stolen them to use them irresponsibly either (and I assume they never could be stolen because I see you as the kind of person who'd keep them in a gun safe).

I'm actually not against gun ownership, and if you look through my posts, you'll see that I've never advocated for banning weapons of any kind (and actually, I don't believe I've involved myself in debate about weapons in general from what I recall). While I believe more could be done to prevent gun violence, I'd say that I'm more moderate in my beliefs about gun ownership. I own two guns myself.

The reason I replied to you was because you compared bicycle-related deaths to gun-related deaths, and compared the cultural attachment to guns with (I assume) a cultural attachment to bicycles, which to me seemed like a strange comparison to make. I merely provided facts and statistics to put the claim into perspective. It has nothing to do with my stance on gun ownership.
 

We Never Know

No Slack
Because you responsibly use them, and no one has stolen them to use them irresponsibly either (and I assume they never could be stolen because I see you as the kind of person who'd keep them in a gun safe).

I'm actually not against gun ownership, and if you look through my posts, you'll see that I've never advocated for banning weapons of any kind (and actually, I don't believe I've involved myself in debate about weapons in general from what I recall). While I believe more could be done to prevent gun violence, I'd say that I'm more moderate in my beliefs about gun ownership. I own two guns myself.

The reason I replied to you was because you compared bicycle-related deaths to gun-related deaths, and compared the cultural attachment to guns with (I assume) a cultural attachment to bicycles, which to me seemed like a strange comparison to make. I merely provided facts and statistics to put the claim into perspective. It has nothing to do with my stance on gun ownership.

"Because you responsibly use them"

Exactly! Its a people problem.
 
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