Stable Geniusing

Of course, controlling women is easy for these people. But guns create profit and heavens forbid the government was to step between a poor humble manufacturer like H&K (market cap 1.8B euros) And its precious euros?

Honestly, with firearm related accidental deaths being a cause here a change us americans could push for is proper gun safes and security. Just like how we should secure harsh cleaning chemicals, pharmacuticals, and sharp objects.

More adolecents should be trained on firearm safety, maybe even like how STI campaigns are run in order to counteract the "sex appeal" that is pushed in our media as well.

Unfortunetly I don't see either totally addressing deaths of despair, it could buy the kid more time if copuled with added safty measures (i.e. a childs safty cap isnt going to stop a teen from opening it). This also applies to interteen violence that drives the number.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10249597/

How about honoring the intent of the 2nd Amendment: want a gun? Get a gun safe and also attend mandatory militia training and call-ups.
- I like the concept but it should be state, not federally ran. Again the concept was civil defense not standing army

Well no, they are focused on pushing a bs supplement they financially benefit from.

You can't really tell what came first, the love of money or the love of dead mothers & children.
\ (Either way they support & actively maintain it tho.)

Like with racism towards black folk (of which early start of that particular version isn't even fully USA based, but the forcefully mixed nationalities under one coloured word is most dominant there).
\ The financial/power/greed component of oppressing a minority is just so strong that one true racist might ask themselves if the extreme racism is even truly racist for the right reasons. (sarcasm!!!)

It's not even like you need to ban guns, you can still hunt or shoot targets with a shotgun or nonautomatic rifle, but what you can't do is spray into a crowd or pull out concealed pistol and shoot someone.

The cops get less antsy as they'll be able to see if you have a gun, mass shootings go down as you can't shoot as fast and people have longer to cover/disperse, and yet you can still do the vast majority of legitimate things with them.

Automatic riles are already illegal under the NFA, with only 1980's and older examples allowed for sale at all with extensive background testing and $200 tax stamps. Since the supply of old automatic guns is small, they cost tens of thousands of dollars and as such just aren't used in crimes.
Cops don't get less antsy when they know you have a gun, they get more antsy. It's because of "us vs. them" warrior cop culture that tells cops everyone not a cop can and will kill them, and that they need to fight to survive every day. It's dangerous bullshit.
Also, concealed carry for self defense is also a significant legitimate thing people do with guns, you are just characterizing hunting and target shooting as the only "legitimate" things to do with guns.

"Regulating" ?

Isn't Shannon Watts.... Uhhhh

Edit: I was thinking of Shanann Watts.

I didn't belive that stat at first.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10042524/

It is sadly true.

Note the subtle bait-and-switch between the post and the study. The post says "firearms violence" but the study says firearms deaths. The post says "among children" but the study says "among children and adolescents" which they choose to include 19-year-olds.
This study jumped on a particularly unusual year and was very careful to bucket the demographics and causes of death to produce a desired impression that is not consistent with reality.
- Nice catch. This was all one big psyop.
  /s
  and was very careful to bucket the demographics and causes of death to produce a desired impression that is not consistent with reality.
  How different from reality? I'm not gonna put a huge difference in effort vs #1 and #2 causes of death. I think car centrism and gun violence are both pretty bad. The study changed my views from not thinking gun violence even on the radar for top causes of death of kids to now seeing it as one of the major causes.
  Also that first paragraph of critique is pretty nitpicky.
  Children -> Children and adolescents
  Deaths by gun violence -> firearm deaths
  This IS subtle lmao. Most people I talk to would not consider those different in casual conversation, and the first part comes from a meme.
You see, that's because there are no good kids with guns. It takes only one good kid with a gun to prevent a shooting by no good kid has a gun so no shootings get prevented.
And because we live in a world where satire has become almost indistinguishable from reality, this is obviously satire.
But when someone says the word children what age range do you think?
The study categorizes them as 1-19 years old. An 18-19 year old can buy a firearm legally on their own, as well as ~~cigarettes~~(recently changed to 21), cars, an apartment etc.
I mean come on at the end of that age range they could have joined the military at age 17, did basic training and had two years of active service in.
Now don't get me wrong I don't want kids (or anyone) to get gunned down in schools, malls, or be lost to suicide. But I feel like if you're going to yell from the hills that guns are THE leading cause of death of children the stats shouldn't also include those legally seen as military age adults.
Maybe I'm wrong though, I plan to dig through the sources a bit later
- Isn't the stat usually about "school-aged children"? So that would include people up to 18, and in some cases 19 years old, no?
- I looked into this a little bit and you have to remove babies in order for gun violence to be highest. So then gun violence is the highest from 1-17 some years, but other years needs to include 18 or 19 year olds in order to be highest.
Holy shit that's grim
Thanks!