Here we go again…

  • SonnyVabitch
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    111 year ago

    I don’t know why you’re asking me about the EU, but if for instance gunshot wounds are one of the leading causes of death among children and teenagers in one highly developed Western democracy, and it doesn’t even come up in the statistics in any other country, that one country is doing (or fails to do) something that is costing the lives of some of its most vulnerable people. Not recognising it and not striving to do something about it is a huge problem worth pointing out.

    • @LemmyIsFantastic
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      -101 year ago

      And even with the elevated rate, it’s still absurdly rare. You are talking 1000 or so cases for nearly 100m children.

      • @Bytemeister
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        1 year ago

        You’re off by almost a factor of 4. In 2021, it was 3.7 deaths per 100,000 children. Scaling that up to 100m, would be 3700 children. In 2021, ~2500 children were killed by firearms in the US, that is ~0.29 children per hour.

        • SonnyVabitch
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          41 year ago

          They want to play the numbers game when one is one too many. Don’t engage in the percentages tango, it validates their stupid point.

          • @Bytemeister
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            1 year ago

            Nah, I say let them play. I don’t want them to tell me how low it is, I really want to know how high they are willing to let that number go. The answer is the same every time; any number of dead kids doesn’t matter. I just want them to be upfront with that information rather than falsely state that they don’t care because the number is low, when the truth is they just don’t fucking care at all because they are fucking selfish assholes.