Where are her trophies at?
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Probably only room for them in the basement. Check out the whole thread. Sheâs just one of many.
I think youâre illustrating the point about mental health and broken families.
Some happy looking families in there too.
A dozen guns leaning against the bed, and a dog. What could go wrong?
I assume sheâs well versed in gun safety, but who knows.
Where I grew up the trophies for winning shooting contests were guns.
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The US economic cost of gun violence is staggering.
In early 2021, Everytown published a study on the economic cost of gun violence in the United States that found that we are paying $280 billion for the aftermath of gun violence per year. Year after year.
This $280 billion problem includes three categories of costs: immediate costs such as hospital treatment, ambulances, and the police response; subsequent costs such as long-term physical and mental health care, institutional care, forgone earnings from disability or death, and criminal justice costs; and quality-of-life costs for pain and suffering over a victimâs lifespan.
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Fear is the enemy. Seems likely with all the other sh*t going on.
âWhy are we willing to live with this carnage?â Biden asked in his speech after the Uvalde killings, portraying them as the continuation of a decade of ceaseless slaughter by citing the â900 incidents of gunfireâ on school grounds since 2012. But few students died in these incidents, which typically occurred outside the school building and often involved non-students going there after school hours. When Fox totals the number of students killed by any sort of gunfire at school in the past decade, including the victims in Uvalde, it works out to 10 deaths per yearâamong more than 50 million students. âHundreds of children die every year in drowning accidents,â he says. âWe need lifeguards at pools more than armed guards at schools.â
Well, I know what am ad hominem is, so thereâs that⌠
And thereâs evidence of any of that in the little comment I brought up and you summarily dismissed, where? Right⌠you totally dismissed something as a potential contributor based on itâs use as a rhetorical device elsewhere.
Do a Google image search on The AmerigunsâŚ
I think I clearly stated it was a bone I pick. You can take if or leave it. I donât much care.
I think Iâve had my fix for today. Maybe tomorrowâŚ
The effect and costs of gun violence on kids.
And for a more in-depth look at the intolerable effect of gun violence on kids and US society
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This is fair, and all those lockdown drills are surely traumatizing for the kids. On the other hand, Fox sets the bar for mass shootings pretty high at four deaths, and the active shooter scenarios are only a fraction of gun incidents at schools:
I donât really see how children and parents are going to get less afraid without meaningful change.
Well, some have mentioned starting to lock up people who are dangers to themselves and others first. None of these guys save the Las Vegas gunner wasnât known before they ahem pulled the trigger.
See something, say something:
This one is close to home:
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Americans do more to help Canadians define themselves than anyone on the planet.
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I donât have a problem with shooting contests. I would, however, have age limits for certain types of weapons, and disallow the use of some weapons altogether.
The urge to shoot is probably somewhere in our DNA. The question is how much of it do we want to allow in a modern society? How to we protect children most efficiently against gun violence? How do we prevent unstable types from getting their hands on weapons?
Canada does more to solidify 2nd Amendment rights in the minds of Americans.
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