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Yeah remember when Adam Lanza killed 26 people (mostly kids!) with a ball peen hammer? Or how sometimes kids accidentally stab their friends to death with their dad’s chef knife they found unsecured. I hate it when that happens.
To be completely fair about it, we have to remember that the overwhelming majority of minors killing and being killed with guns are directly involved in criminal gangs. Accidents are rare; school shooting deaths rarer still. Adult gang members are calling on these kids to commit violent acts on their behalf. These kids killing and being killed with guns are doing exactly what is expected and demanded of them by the "role models" in their lives.
It is rather disingenuous to blame the guns when their "mentors" are putting them in their hands and demanding they use them.
Gun violence is a symptom, not the disease. Trying to solve it by taking away the guns is like trying to cure tuberculosis with Robitussin. It hasn't worked, doesn't work, can't work. At best, it masks a symptom while the disease spreads. You need to eradicate the infection to cure the disease. If we want to tackle kids killing and being killed, we have to target the conditions that lead to them to associate with the violent, criminal gangs that actively seek these murders.
You are using the tired old fallacious gunnit claims about gun deaths only being "gang killings", which even the article in question thoroughly refutes.
Funny how it works in almost all other countries (and certainly in all other rich Western countries) but the US though.
Citation needed.
Just imagine living in a civilized country instead, where those things basically don't happen.
Indeed. We desperately need universal healthcare and measures to address wealth and income inequity.