• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    19/18 year old is A) not a child

    So these teenagers you speak about, you think they’re not children?

    Let me guess, you’re like 20-23?

    Yes, 18 and 19 year old are non-fully developed humans. Still developing. Not finished. SO MUCH SO, that they CAN AREN’T VENE ALLOWED BEER.

    It’s so pathetic the excuses you keep making to try and spin a horrible fact into something that doesn’t need to be worried about.

    Like compared to Europe, America really is on the level of developing countries, and even worse in a lot of instances.

    https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/insights-blog/acting-data/gun-violence-united-states-outlier

    Science agrees that gun control works. It’s just a fact. A fact you won’t be able to accept, no matter what.

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      So these teenagers you speak about, you think they’re not children?

      No they’re not, most gang related violence here in the states is from 15-19 year olds. Which heavily skew the numbers.

      Let me guess, you’re like 20-23?

      Lol try again kid, I’m probably old enough to be your father.

      Yes, 18 and 19 year old are non-fully developed humans. Still developing. Not finished. SO MUCH SO, that they CAN AREN’T VENE ALLOWED BEER.

      Is that why they’re allowed alcohol in most of Europe at that age?

      It’s so pathetic the excuses you keep making to try and spin a horrible fact into something that doesn’t need to be worried about.

      Well considering that 2/3rds (%66~) of our deaths are suicides, then of the 34% left, 85% of those are gang/drug related, and then the last %15 covers police killings (on average 1k deaths a year from the police shooting someone) and then you have the few hundred murders a year from firearms that includes (mass shootings, robberies, muggings, random acts of violence). But you wouldn’t know this because you’re from a euro country who thinks guns magically make the usa the wild west and blood pours from the streets daily while roaming hordes or mass murders just walk around openly and execute people.

      Like compared to Europe, America really is on the level of developing countries, and even worse in a lot of instances.

      Yea you don’t know what you’re talking about.

      Science agrees that gun control works. It’s just a fact. A fact you won’t be able to accept, no matter what.

      Science agrees that counties that have social programs that support their citizens have less violence overall… Brazil still is waiting on your “gun control works”…

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        from 15-19 year olds. no, they’re not children

        Keep shifting the goal post to younger and younger?

        If you’re even close my age, that’s fucking sad man. If you’ve gotten over the age of 35 and still think it’s okay when kids die because they’re teenagers, live in bad areas (and are usually minorities), then… how the fuck do you sleep at night?

        The mental gymnastics is goddamn impressive.

        Is that why they’re allowed alcohol in most of Europe at that age?

        The age of consent is on average 16, and in lots of countries you may have a light alcohol beverage with a meal if accompanied by your guardians. Just like with your driving licences. A “learner’s permit” if you will, because we understand that these are kids on the verge of adulthood, so they’re gradually allowed to do more and more adult things. You can have a mild drink with a meal at 16, buy yourself drinks at a bar and purchase wines and milds from stores at 18 and when you’re 20, no limits anymore. You can drive a <11kW bike at 16, a <25kW at 18 and any power at 20. Because again, developing, so gradually ease them in so they’re ready when they’re fully-grown as opposed to being a developing young human being.

        People’s brains don’t even fully mature until they’re ~26, but you try to shirk responsibility of children getting slaughtered with an excuse of “well most of them are older kids who live in poor socioeconomic areas, so why would their deaths matter”.

        Like I said, there’s never any science with you people, always the same chants of “not kids”, “muh rights” (a right to a gun isn’t a human right) and “but then only criminals will have guns” and you never ever read any of the science on the matter.

        my whataboutism is still waiting

        No shit? You’re too thick to read a simple summary from Harvard and you excuse the leading cause of children being guns as “most of them are black teens so they’re criminals anyway so who cares”, so why would you accept science concerning your shitty “what about”?

        Here’s a summary of the OXFORD UNIVERSITY study I have linked several times:

        Santaella-Tenorio’s study (co-authored with Columbia professors Magdalena Cerdá and Sandro Galea, as well as the University of North Carolina’s Andrés Villaveces) examined roughly 130 studies that had been conducted in 10 different countries. Each of those 130 studies had looked at some specific change in gun laws and its effect on homicide and/or suicide rates. Most of them looked at law changes in the developed world, such as the US, Australia, and Austria, while a few looked at gun laws in developing countries, specifically Brazil and South Africa.

        ###“… SPECIFICALLY BRAZIL …”

        So why don’t you actually read the fucking thing? Just like I’ve been saying all along, you’re nothing but a willfully ignorant gun nut parroting propaganda you’ve overheard, and you never ever have a single piece of peer reviewed study to support your regurgitated bullshit.

        Also, you want to know about the reasons for South American instability and crime? How about a look in the mirror?

        https://www.cepr.net/how-us-guns-destabilize-latin-america-and-fuel-the-refugee-crisis/

        In August, the Mexican government sued US gunmakers for facilitating the high gun homicide rate in Mexico. Most people in the US who heard this news were probably confused, not understanding what US gunmakers have to do with homicides in Mexico. If they were to read Ioan Grillo’s excellent book, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels, they would understand completely. They would learn that Mexican law enforcement estimates that 2.5 million guns have been smuggled from the United States into Mexico over the past decade. They might even wonder why other countries in Latin America aren’t also suing US gunmakers

        The Americas is the most homicidal region on the planet due, in no small part, to the “iron river” of guns flowing from the United States to Latin America and the Caribbean. The above figure from Our World in Data, based on data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, shows that Canada had a gun homicide rate of 0.5 deaths per 100,000 in 2017. In the US, the rate was 4.63, approaching 10 times the rate in Canada, while in Mexico, it was 11.49, more than 20 times the Canada rate. Excluding the Americas, all countries in Europe, and most countries in the rest of the world had lower gun homicide rates than the US. (Some people incorrectly believe that there is a higher rate of gun ownership in Canada than in the US, but the Small Arms Survey reports that in 2017 Canada had 34.7 guns per 100 residents, compared to 120.5 in the United States. The gun ownership rate in the US is more than three times the rate in Canada.)

        Although how would you ever read a book on the matter, when a page long summary gives you trouble.