U.S. children and teens are more likely to die because of guns than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer.

  • GladiusB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not many are being shot from walking around saying “bang”.

    It’s a shared experience. It’s like a lot things in life. Crack doesn’t smoke itself and wives don’t beat themselves up. It’s almost like their are more complicated things than useless reduction rhetoric of a mindless fool.

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      1 year ago

      You’re exactly right. And notice how instead of trying to eradicate crack from the earth, instead we’re treating people that abuse it and trying to stop people from doing so in the first place.

      The same is said for alcohol, cigarettes, etc. Don’t get me wrong - harsher restrictions need to be put in place. But as you said, it’s complicated.

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        1 year ago

        Even though a lot of gunnits certainly behaves that way, guns aren’t actually drugs and can’t be compared to drugs in any shape or form.

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          1 year ago

          Gladius was the one who compared them to drugs. I was just following their analogy.