So let me review:
- Overturned train in Ohio causing massive environmental damage
- Overturned truck in Arizona
- Turkey death toll from the earthquake surpasses 40,000
- Three dead at a campus shooting for Michigan State (including at least one student who had previously endured a high school shooting.)
- Ukraine still invaded and fighting for independence
Just an unthinkable and overwhelming past two weeks and I am left shaking my head wondering what is going to come next.
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"Fact Check: Joe Biden Says Guns Are Biggest Killer of American Children"
User /u/LibraryGeek on Reddit gives the following summary:
"True.
Statistics from the CDC show that firearm deaths were the leading cause of death for children aged 1-19. Although that analysis does not count infants, firearm deaths would still be the leading cause of death among children if they were."
But you know, the 2nd amendment and all...
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At Last, a Bipartisan Effort on Gun Safety
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Let's move the ball on gun control. I think the fear is that if we give them this, they won't give more. That's a fallacious way of thinking. Not taking this only furthers the message on the right that Democrats want to take their guns and the fact the law doesn't do that is why the Dems didn't pass it. It also shows voters that these rights CAN change and are not immutable, meaning more change in the future is still possible.
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The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives - Scientific American
What research we have is clear and grim. For example, in 2017, guns overtook 60 years of cars as the biggest injury-based killer of children and young adults (ages one to 24) in the U.S. By 2020, about eight in every 100,000 people died of car crashes. About 10 in every 100,000 people died of gun injuries.
While cars have become increasingly safer (it’s one of the auto industry’s main talking points in marketing these days), the gun lobby has thwarted nearly all attempts to make it harder to fire a weapon. With federal protection against some lawsuits, the financial incentive of a giant tort payout to make guns safer is virtually nonexistent.
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A study comparing gun deaths the U.S. to other high-income countries in Europe and Asia tells us that our homicide rate in teens and young adults is 49 times higher. Our firearm suicide rate is eight times higher. The U.S. has more guns than any of the countries in the comparison.
As we previously reported, in 2015, assaults with a firearm were 6.8 times more common in states that had the most guns, compared to the least. More than a dozen studies have revealed that if you had a gun at home, you were twice as likely to be killed as someone who didn’t. Research from the Harvard School of Public Health tells us that states with higher gun ownership levels have higher rates of homicide. Data even tells us that where gun shops or gun dealers open for business, killings go up. These are but a few of the studies that show the exact opposite of what progun politicians are saying. The science must not be ignored.
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