• makeshift0546@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    Hey you do you and we all feel how we feel. But are you that afraid of lightning? Because we’re talking the same percentages.or kids drowning in a pool.

    Gun violence sucks and it’s dumb that we can’t have any sort of middle ground on the conversation, but getting accidentally shot is so far down on that list of things that will kill you.

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      5 days ago

      It’s like 40 lightning deaths a year versus 10,000 gun deaths, that’s why these conversations can’t happen. Gun deaths is the number one killer of children, more than all diseases combined even.

      You can’t begin to understand where im coming from if you won’t even take gun deaths seriously.

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        5 days ago

        No. You’re conflating with non accidental discharge. The odds of you getting shot, accidentally are near nil.

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            5 days ago

            Second time I’ve needed to go full circle with someone.

            iTs NoT tHe GuNs FaUlT iTs tHe PeOpLe 🙄🙄🙄

            That is the comment I was addressing. It was the person’s fault. It was negligence and illegal. Words have meaning.

            If you’re afraid of shooting yourself that’s all entirely tangential direction you went.