OT Mass shooting at Highland Park, IL 4th of July parade

[Hoopguru]

And Canada has better access to education, healthcare (including mental health), and a far more generous social safety net.

All leading to a much better score on the gini index than America.

I keep posting the actual data, but people just want to resort to posting MAGA type political memes...

Targeting guns is the least effective, most expensive way to address gun violence in America.

Canada has about 10% of the US population.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Canada has about 10% of the US population.

The great thing about these services is they cost less per person the larger the pool of general population there are.

That's why larger insurance pools pay lower premiums here in the US and get more benefits.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

 

[Phatguysrule]

Horrible. In HS my ex-girlfriend's 11 year old sister hung herself in her bedroom.

Destroyed that family.

 

[Phatguysrule]

If Hillary Clinton had supported improving access to healthcare, education, and improving the social safety net as her solution to reducing gun violence (it would be overall violence), how many more of the blue collar vote do you think she would have gotten from the union voters in the rust belt who turned their back on the democrats?

If even 10% of the bubble voters in those few gun loving states had voted for her she'd have beaten Trump.

I'm not joking. IMO, Democrats can't afford to maintain this position on gun rights.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Buying a gun should be much harder than it is.

We can agree on that much.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Highland Park shooter posted pictures online of his 'teenage sex doll' hanged in closet saying 'Sophie killed herself, I don't understand why' and denied the Holocaust happened in vile racist rants

• Robert 'Bobby' Crimo, 21, frequently posted on the online forum Documenting Reality, under the moniker 'Awake 47'
• He would often share photos of himself, along with footage of shootings and other real-life violence
• Crimo also used the site to document his relationship with a teenage sex doll he named Sophie, posting a photo in July 2020 of the doll hanging from a closet
• In the days leading up to the shooting, Crimo wrote a number of racist and anti-Semitic posts, questioning the Holocaust and suggesting Asians be gassed

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...en-sex-doll-hanging-spouted-racist-posts.html

 

[SlyPokerDog]

God damn, there is a lot to unpack in this picture, lol.

 

[Phatguysrule]

God damn, there is a lot to unpack in this picture, lol.

WTF?

 

[tlongII]

And they let this guy buy a gun. smh.

 

[Chris Craig]

And they let this guy buy a gun. smh.

The dad signed off on it.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Holy fuck this is sad.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7...ass-shooting-cooper-roberts-keely-fourth-july

 

[Road Ratt]

26,000 Kids Could Be Alive Today If US Had Same Gun Mortality Rate as Canada

The United States is home to 97% of the gun-related child deaths that have occurred in one dozen of the world's wealthiest nations in recent years.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...oday-if-us-had-same-gun-mortality-rate-canada

 

[Phatguysrule]

26,000 Kids Could Be Alive Today If US Had Same Gun Mortality Rate as Canada

The United States is home to 97% of the gun-related child deaths that have occurred in one dozen of the world's wealthiest nations in recent years.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...oday-if-us-had-same-gun-mortality-rate-canada

Nearly all of which are suicides and gang crime.

If you look at the effectiveness of gun control policies and gun buybacks, etc, you would have to remove twice as many guns as exist in the country to get our violent crime and murder rates close to that of Canada's.

However, improving our gini coefficient to that of Canada's would result of a far greater reduction in gun mortality (as well as overall violent crime) than any gun control measures possibly could, and at a fraction of the cost.

If Democrats want to compete with Republicans they need to stop pushing for more restrictions and start pushing for more benefits as a solution to these problems.