Denver police have arrested a 13-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting a man whose leg was blocking the aisle on a public bus.

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    8 months ago

    It’s not just parenting. There are crap parents worldwide, yet this only regularly happens in one place.

    E: downvote all you want. Remove my comment if you want. You know it to be true. This is a US thing. Stop worshiping your guns.

    And if you are to have them, keep them in a safe, inaccessible to children, when not in use. The fact that this is a controversial statement to Americans is insane.

    You can’t just handwave away gun problems as “oh it’s the parent’s fault, nothing can be done”

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      I talk about how much America loves guns and it’s military and I get downvoted all the time. And I say that as a left-leaning armed American.

      Sorry that facts hurt people’s feelings. We literally had school shootings involving kindergartners a decade ago and nothing has changed. Nothing.

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      It’s not guns, it never was done. It’s lack of good education, farming it out like it’s just some subscription thing. People aren’t learning practical information in schools. We don’t teach kids how to think, or how to deal with anger in their mind. And they get up and they grow up to be these idiot full grown adults who don’t know how to think past them not liking a person because of skin color, they go with their first wins because they’re idiots, they get a hold of guns because only idiots need guns. And then they do something stupid. Thinking it’s just guns is fucking stupid. Guns don’t hurt people people do blah blah blah, it’s true people suck now. They’re dumb they don’t read and they should shoot themselves in the head next time

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        It’s guns.

        People from other countries aren’t just intrinsically superior to Americans. We haven’t all trained our kids to be paragons of virtue. It’s that any American can trivially get a gun.

        It’s that simple. It’s guns.

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        Among the world’s economically developed democracies, it absolutely only happens in one nation. This is not up for debate; it’s an objective fact.

        How we choose to address this fact is up to us, but being in denial about it is not a sane option.

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        Yes it does. People under 18 getting hold of firearms and behaving like idiots with them is something that gets reported on frequently in the US and pretty much the US alone.

        But sure, name all these other places where this happens on a regular basis.

        E: lmao. Straigh up lies in the retort. Asia and Africa don’t have gun problems. Even the most violent place in Africa has a gun violence rate of barely over half of the US’s. Fair enough on central America.

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          8 months ago

          Mexico? Except guess where Mexico gets most of their illegal firearms from…

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            That’s absolutely not true. Data shows the only countries with higher gun deaths per capita than the US are all central and parts of South America. E.g., India’s per capita gun death rate is 0.56 vs 4.12 in the US.

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            You literally made that up. It’s the US and a few unstable countries in South America.

            South Africa, one of the highest homicide rate countries in the world, with a murder rate 6.5x higher than the US, has half the gun homicide rate of the US.

            India has has 1 gun homicide per 100k. The US has 11 per 100k.

            But yeah. Keep telling us how everywhere outside of Europe and Australia is like this. It’s BS.