12 kids a year getting shot while at school is a lot. The goal should be zero. That’s 1200% too high in any normal society.
You get that right? Or does it really seem normal to you that 12 kids in American should be statistically likely to get shot because it seems low compared to dogs and bees. Ridiculous.
Interesting how some of us can tolerate children being murdered or raped by the Catholic Church as long as the kids never see a gay person it’s s’all good brah
It seems to me that the Catholic Church addressed its problem, however belatedly. I cannot find the statistics now but several years ago the CDC released a study stating that, in the USA, 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 7 boys reported that they had been sexually molested. It's a huge problem and and it goes way beyond the Catholic Church.
1. It's not that deadly. More people are killed by bees and dogs than are killed in schools every year...
2. I didn't move any goal post you just haven't thought beyond your own feelings yet and haven't considered what your dream of repealing 2A would actually look like.
Guns are now the leading cause of death for children in US. Your faulty logic can't explain that away.
Nice try with your comparison of bees and dogs in the total population compared to "people killed in schools". Absolutely pathetic.
According to the CDC only African-American males have homicide as the leading cause of death. As a whole homicide never rises above a distant 3 outside of the African-American community.
always remember almost all armed crimes are committed with handguns. Sure, the mass shootings are usually done by long guns, but if we want to bring the killing down, restricting handguns would be the most useful place to start.
My personal view is that you make handguns very hard to get and see what the results are. the problem is that the lives saved would be poor black and hispanic kids...the school schootings of white kids would go on. So the perception would be that limiting handguns did no good.
Except most of the hand guns used in hand gun crimes are typically illegally obtained anyhow. That is the large gaping hole in your argument.
Not really. If handguns required a year waiting period and classes and extra fees and exams there would be a lot fewer handguns purchased and handed over to criminals. Sure there is an existing stock but that would dissipate over time. done.
1. It's not that deadly. More people are killed by bees and dogs than are killed in schools every year...
2. I didn't move any goal post you just haven't thought beyond your own feelings yet and haven't considered what your dream of repealing 2A would actually look like.
Guns are now the leading cause of death for children in US. Your faulty logic can't explain that away.
Nice try with your comparison of bees and dogs in the total population compared to "people killed in schools". Absolutely pathetic.
And direct abortion is the leading cause of death (of all age groups) in the USA, but the CDC won't report it that way (from the article linked below):
The CDC reported 612,719 abortions in 2017 from “[s]elected reporting areas” (excluding California, Maryland, and New Hampshire) and 619,591 “legal induced abortions” from 49 reporting areas in 2018. Yet the CDC, in reporting that the “10 leading causes of death in 2018 remained the same as in 2017,” twice failed to identify direct (or “induced”) abortion as a leading cause of death. I have distilled the CDC’s leading causes of death data, which it based on the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision [ICD–10], into the following table:
Rank | Cause of death | Number in 2017 | Number in 2018 – | All causes | 2,813,503 | 2,839,205 1 | Diseases of heart | 647,457 | 655,381 2 | Malignant neoplasms | 599,108 | 599,274 3 | Accidents (unintentional injuries) | 169,936 | 167,127 4 | Chronic lower respiratory diseases | 160,201 | 159,486 5 | Cerebrovascular diseases | 146,383 | 147,810 6 | Alzheimer disease | 121,404 | 122,019 7 | Diabetes mellitus | 83,564 | 84,946 8 | Influenza and pneumonia | 55,672 | 59,120 9 | Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis | 50,633 | 51,386 10 | Intentional self-harm (suicide) | 47,173 | 48,344 – | All other causes | 731,972 | 744,312 Table 1: 10 Leading causes of death in the USA in 2017 and 2018 according to the CDC.
The 612,719 abortions in 2017 and 619,591 abortions in 2018 that the CDC reported should rank second – above cancer (malignant neoplasms) – among the ten leading causes of death that the CDC listed in both 2017 and 2018. And because the abortion data for both years captured only the abortions in 49 of 52 reporting areas and for other reasons (for example, illegal abortions) may have been further underreported, it is possible that direct abortion was the leading cause of death in the USA in 2017 and 2018. Yet the death tolls from abortion for both years are absent. (There is an additional complication: natural miscarriage almost certainly ranks among the leading causes, too, though it would be difficult to accurately quantify and is also missing from the CDC’s rankings.) Note something else striking: in January 2021 the Guttmacher Institute reported that “132,680 abortions were provided in California” and “[a]pproximately 862,320 abortions occurred in the United States” in 2017. Inserting that national datum from the Guttmacher Institute into the CDC table, direct abortion would rank above diseases of heart as the leading cause of death in 2017 (as I write, I do not find Guttmacher Institute data for 2018). The CDC’s publication of the leading causes of death for 2017 and 2018 rendered direct abortion invisible and was an exercise in exclusivity, not inclusivity.
According to the CDC only African-American males have homicide as the leading cause of death. As a whole homicide never rises above a distant 3 outside of the African-American community.
The link you posted is from 2018 and breaks down deaths by age group, with no mention of racial demographics. So, it in no way refutes the point that guns overtook car crashes as the leading cause of death of children in the US. So, another fail on your part.
Interesting how some of us can tolerate children being murdered or raped by the Catholic Church as long as the kids never see a gay person it’s s’all good brah
How the FUCCCK would kids seeing gay people prevent these alleged murders? You absolute clown.
Par for the course. CNN REFUSES to mention the word "trans" or even state the gender of the shooter. I even did a search for the word trans on the page and it only hit once, talking about the victims being transported to the hospital.
By Aditi Sangal, Elise Hammond, Maureen Chowdhury and Zoe Sottile, CNN
A shooter fatally shot three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, authorities said. Follow the latest live news updates.
The shooter: The shooter has been identified as 28-year-old Nashville resident Audrey Hale. The shooter was armed with a handgun and two AR-style weapons — one a rifle and an AR-style pistol, Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said. Two of those may have been obtained legally and locally in Nashville, Drake said. According to initial findings, the shooter was once a student at the school, he added, though he said police are unsure what years.
