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Gunshot wounds--leading cause of death for American children
- Thread starter Copernicus
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SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
Thanks for reinforcing the fact that Republicans only seem to care about fetuses, rather than what actually happens to children after they're born.
You guys don't support school lunch programs.
You guys don't support welfare assistance programs for unemployed parents.
You guys don't support daycare programs or subsidies.
You guys don't support child allowances.
You guys don't support food stamp programs.
You guys don't support universal healthcare.
You guys don't support maternity leave.
You guys don't support paternity leave.
You guys don't support mental health programs.
But you wanna force everyone to have babies.
And you guys support policies that when implemented - as they have been in Texas - have actually INCREASED infant mortality by 13%.
And not only do you guys not support these things, but you also degrade and demean the people who do and those who need such supports. You claim they're lazy. Or Slutty. Or they have mental illness. Or whatever excuse you can come up with to write them off.
Save us your sanctimony.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
I think we should start by enforcing the laws that are already on the books. You bring up military style rifles and one of my points is that the five year old probably didn't find a military style rifle in the nightstand, he probably found a handgun.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
An explanation you just didn't feel like providing in your response or .... ?
This was in response to, "I don't understand how anyone could "tolerate" the mass killing of children on a fairly regular basis."
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
You just gave the example yourself of your parents just handing an AR15 to your 13-year old brother...
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
You just gave the example yourself of a five year old finding a handgun in a nightstand...
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
I also talked about the 14-year old who grabs the AR15. In my example at least he had to take it himself. In your example, it's just handed to him.
Not sure what point you think you are making here.....
How about this for a point: citizens have no business having such military grade weapons in their homes?
To anyone not living in the US, it is actually mindblowingly shocking to see the casualness of how people in the US just go and by a gun or ammunition at a grocery store or alike. And then they cry about the countless mass shootings and the fact that Americans kill more americans with "civilian" guns in a single year then Islamic terrorists have killed americans in the past 5 decades.
But when an islamic terrorist kills a few americans, entire countries are bombed to the ground in response.
yeah, makes perfect sense!
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Same here.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
How about we make it easier to enforce the laws that are already passed?
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
So, get rid of the NRA.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Or whatever you want to do to enforce the laws we already have in place.
Colt
Well-Known Member
I was responding to a poster who said fetuses aren’t children. It’s an argument the left has used to justify killing unborn children.Do you serve scrambled eggs and tell people they are getting chicken dinners? One has to wonder what you think fetuses become in other countries.
Clizby Wampuscat
Well-Known Member
I would say the only thing conservatives don't support on this list is universal health care and maybe paternity leave but who is not supporting lunch programs or maternity leave etc.?
Copernicus
Industrial Strength Linguist
Fetuses aren't children. That's why we don't call them "children". When a woman faces the difficult choice of what to do about an unwanted pregnancy, that is none of your business unless you are the woman facing that decision.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Then why does God "kill unborn children" through miscarriages and/or stillborn? What other decisions should the government make dealing with a woman's personal health? What supposed right do you have to make her personal decisions?
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
As I said, it wouldn't make any difference.
Even if they are followed to the letter, the laws themselves are like a bad joke.
David Young
Member
Coming back to how 'intolerable' the level of shotgun deaths among young Americans is, what has anyone on this thread done in the last twelve months, other than post messages in a forum, as a result of their intolerance to it?