Article was published in 2017, and gun deaths among US kids has increased 50% since 2019.
Original article: https://www.romper.com/p/a-toddler-has-shot-someone-every-week-for-the-last-2-years-straight-it-highlights-this-huge-problem-28266
2023 update from a different gun research group: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/06/gun-deaths-among-us-kids-rose-50-percent-in-two-years/
We live in hell.
It's also why building a routine and developing your endurance and lung capacity is so much more important than just "lifting bigger weights" if you're trying to be healthier. Your body is already doing hard work, you can get better results with helping it work more efficiently instead of just pushing it to exhaustion.
Convicted felon and sexual assailant* Trump
Each of these ideas solves a different aspect of the bigger problem, but none of them will solve the entire issue.
The problem is that with these 'realistic' views, we never make ANY progress by just throwing our hands up, saying 'Well there are just too many guns to solve the problem with a single solution.'
Buyback programs. Ammo purchasing restrictions. Laws requiring documentation of all firearms with strict penalties for undocumented weapons. There are proven menthods of de-escalating and de-weaponizing populations when they are provided with the means, motive and opportunity.
Get out of here with this defeatist attitude. You'd never make this argument for driving a vehicle without a license because "tHeRe ArE tOo MaNy CaRs"
I remember the first time I went to an anime convention, and was SO EXCITED because they were going to host a DDR tournament!
Then I went into the room where the tournament was supposed to be held and almost died. They were routinely shutting down the room just to try to air it out, and were doing routine announcements of "I do not care if you think you do not smell. Everyone needs to go back to their hotel and shower before coming back. We are serious."
I didn't enter the tournament.
She was dropping her son off as school. Her son was still in the car. She drove into the bus lane accidentally. The officer's response was that he was "scared she was going to run someone over" .. while her son who goes to the school is in the car. You could verify that in a 5 second radio call to the front office.
We need to re-think policing in general if cops are allowed to enforce their worst fears instead of seeing what's actually happening.
What? The guy who fired people who slept in their offices at Twitter fired more people who were sacrificing their personal lives for one of his companies?
Ya don't say.
If "your man card can be revoked" then you understand that gender is performative and conditional.
It was already illegal - It was human trafficking.
It'd be nice to have people enforce the laws we already have first instead of this security theatre.
Things to never say before committing a crime:
"Wait, let me sign in with my Google account first."
I LOVE that people are starting to recognize they can unmask LLMs with the phrase 'ignore all previous instructions'.