President says ā€˜epidemic of gun violence is tearing our communities apartā€™ after mass shootings in Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Baltimore and Chicago

  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Itā€™s just many of those deaths probably would have occurred anyways wether there is a gun ban or not.

    There are lots of ways to commit suicide, guns are just convenient. Now some of those deaths probably wouldnā€™t have happened because they may be spur of the moment decisions in a dark period, but many still would have.

    Not like the deaths of children who find their parents gun in the closet or the deaths of 5+ people in a grocery store with an automatic weapon.

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      1 year ago

      Damn youā€™re cold. Thatā€™s 21,782 peopleā€™s lives weā€™ll never get back. Just this year. And weā€™re going to sit here debating whether their life is worth including.

      • TrontheTechie@infosec.pub
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        No empathy like conservative empathy.

        These disingenuous folks will tell you these folks wouldā€™ve killed themselves anyways, but they say nothing about the fact that most people kill themselves over financial or medical hardship while they shrink the social safety net to be just big enough to catch CEOs with golden parachutes.