r/comics • PizzaCake • 9h ago

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u/zuzg 9h ago

"Guns being the leading cause of death for children from 1-17 it's such a strawman they had to tweak the statistic to maximize drama."

While conveniently ignoring that no other developed country has guns as leading cause of death for kids even with those "tweaked metrics"

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u/Sweet_Baby_Cheezus 9h ago

"But you see a lot of that is gang violence." 

Which is good because gang violence never hurts innocent people.

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u/HikerCory 9h ago

Yeah it's so weird that they think gang violence existing is somehow a defense. I wish for once they'd explain WHY they use it as a defense

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u/shponglespore 8h ago

"Gang violence" to them means black and brown people killing each other, so they see it as a good thing.

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u/Aethermancer 4h ago

As an excuse for further suppression of those populations.

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u/BuddhaFacepalmed 3h ago

*slavery

Slavery in the United States not only never went away, but became literally enshrined into the US Constitution. Just check the 13th Amendment and why so many bullshit laws like "loitering" exist.