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The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives
By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo
By The Editors on May 26, 2022
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A study comparing gun deaths the U.S. to other high-income countries in Europe and Asia tells us that our homicide rate in teens and young adults is 49 times higher. Our firearm suicide rate is eight times higher. The U.S. has more guns than any of the countries in the comparison.
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We need to become the kind of country that looks at guns for what they are: weapons that kill. And treat them with the kind of respect that insists they be harder to get and safer to use.
And then we need to become the kind of country that says the lives of children are more valuable than the right to weapons that have killed them, time and again. Since Columbine. Since Sandy Hook. Since always.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-is-clear-gun-control-saves-lives/
underpants
(182,883 posts)Thanks.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Not a lof of crime here, except for this sort of thing. 12 year old girl killed earlier this year in a drive-by.
The good thing is the killers are found quickly, but that doesn't bring the lives back.
Biophilic
(3,694 posts)A lot of somebodies aren't doing their jobs...or maybe I just don't understand what their real jobs are. I'll bet not too many really wealthy people die from gunfire.
dlk
(11,578 posts)They are monsters
Wild blueberry
(6,660 posts)Calm and factual.
Thank you.
90-percent
(6,829 posts)It will probably be censored and blocked because it violates Facebook Community Standards.
FB is conditioning us to accept a "total information awareness" police state kind of government surveillance.
I feel EVERY THING I POST ON FB is scrutinized by authoritarian ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. I even get busted posting lyrics from Frank Zappa's "Lonesome Cowboy Burt" in a private group about collector cars.
"find me a communist bastard and stomp on his face till he don't move no more"
Also got busted for publishing a quote from DJT.
More FB anecdotes to follow. I feel a DU essay comin' on.
-90% Jimmy
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)randr
(12,415 posts)The right wing is using the NRA and their surrogates to instill fear through terrorism and our children are the victims.
Rhiannon12866
(206,027 posts)EX500rider
(10,864 posts)Generally children are considered to below the age of puberty.
You can join the military at age 17.
keithbvadu2
(36,917 posts)NRA genius says hammers are worse.
One commenter says he should turn up his oxygen.
https://democraticunderground.com/100216749484
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twodogsbarking
(9,814 posts)72% are age 6 or younger.
We need a less violent population I would say.