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A Wisconsin man charged with crimes for a school shooting committed by his daughter is the latest U.S. parent taken to court for violence caused by a child

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

The rest of the world has proper gun regulation. I think you fail to understand just the free for all America is with guns.

I guess you don't care about suicides or the fact that limiting access to guns would save lives. I already provided a source that disproves your uninformed opinions about gun suicide.

"In 2023, there were 46,728 gun-related deaths"

Oh looks like closer to 50k than your made up estimates. Your inability to see reality and hand wave these deaths away is pathetic to say the least

Don't blame the tool is a tired argument that the rest of the world recognizes as a fallacy. But do keep repeating it as it shows your ignorance in this matter.

"Guns r bad" is better than the reality of ammosexuals and gun nutters. Apparently "guns r gud" is all you can comprehend.

I already gave statistics about child gun deaths backed up by actual research. Your whataboutism is very telling.

Oh yes, all those modern countries in Europe and places like Japan that don't care about their citizens because they won't give them unsupervised access to guns. I am not sure where you are coming from but it is probably something dumb like American Exceptionalism.

Bringing up Mexico is pretty rich considering their gun problems are directly related to ours.

Without a gun a lot of rapes would not happen in the US. Just like suicides access to firearms emboldens poor decisions.

Once again I know several women who were sexually assaulted and afraid to leave because of threats to their life with a firearm. Sorry to burst your bubble. You probably have never been threatened by a gun or raped so I think I am going to take your opinion with a grain of salt.

The 2nd amendment is determined by court decisions from lawsuits brought by corporations. The fact that you don't recognize this shows you really don't understand how case law and precedent actually work.

Pretending corporations are not behind this is a profound disservice to reality. Hell, Congress even passed a law protecting gun manufacturers from lawsuit. Pathetic that you carry so much water for them.

Oh gawd, they literally passed a law to prevent gun research from receiving federal funds. It was called the Dickey amendment. Before this they purposely underfunded this research and punished those engaging in it.

We may never know the full magnitude of destruction from guns because our corporate masters don't want us to see the true horror of what has happened. I know you could give a shit about human life, but not everyone is as callous and thoughtless as you are.

At this point I think we have exposed you for the gun extremist you pretend not to be. This is important because a lot of people like you want to pretend they are moderates when in the grand scheme of things you are not.

You inability to understand that corporations write the majority of our laws is staggering to say the least.

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/copy-paste-legislate/you-elected-them-to-write-new-laws-theyre-letting-corporations-do-it-instead/

Furthermore the rich and powerful continue to write laws that are unpopular with citizens. Your ignorance in this area is profound.

https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2015/05/disturbing-data-rich-and-powerful-get-their-policies-adopted-even-if-opposed/

I think at this point we can agree to disagree.