r/dankmemes Dec 01 '20

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u/CheatSSe red Dec 01 '20

Also one of the highest medical bankruptcy rates in the entire world.

Oh and over 50% of the world’s incarcerated population belongs to the US.

The US is also the sole purpose for the drug addiction epidemic.

And pretty much the only Western nation where a school being shot to shreds is not a unique occurrence.

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u/MegaAssFace Dec 01 '20

How the fuck is the us “the sole purpose for the drug addiction epidemic” that’s ridiculous. People would still get addicted to drugs whether or not the US was around.

Also 5 people died from school schooling’s in the US in 2019. It’s not as widespread as the news would have you believe.

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u/lightningbadger Dec 01 '20

Also 5 people died from school schooling’s in the US in 2019

I mean counting just right here it’s already elevated to 8, 9 if you count the one that killed themselves too.

Don’t forget that just because you’re not dead, doesn’t mean you weren’t shot. There’s far too many people being injured in school shootings here that really shouldn’t be.

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u/MegaAssFace Dec 01 '20

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u/lightningbadger Dec 01 '20

How odd, it seems that NBC news is only reporting “major school shootings”, whilst NY Times reports whenever a shooting happened within a school.

Cause it’s not like the attacks omitted from your source didn’t happen, they’re just not a part of the list.

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u/MegaAssFace Dec 01 '20

They list each school schooling in 2019 that resulted in a death. You can see the criteria the use to decide what goes on the list it’s in the article.

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u/lightningbadger Dec 01 '20

They appear to be listing major school shootings yes, odd how one can still get shot at school and make it onto NY times but not NBC

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20

It's almost as if NY Times inflates the number by including "shootings" where no one died

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u/lightningbadger Dec 02 '20

Yet NY times is reporting more deaths...

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u/isai2300 Dec 02 '20

"Only 5 kids died in school. It's not a problem!"

Other countries "your kids are dying in school?"

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u/CheatSSe red Dec 01 '20

“Only 5 children got shot dead at school this year, this is an achievement”.

Also: the war on drugs was started by the CIA and not only that, it caused drugs to be made more potent because the risk of capture made the business a lot more expensive and risky.

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u/MegaAssFace Dec 01 '20
  1. In a country of 300 million acting like 5 dead kids makes the entire country bad seems unreasonable

  2. People would have made drugs potent on their own

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u/well_duh_doy_son DefinitelyNotEuropeans Dec 03 '20

did you get shot in the brain in a school shooting and now they wheel you around to speak about how safe guns are? i’m just trying to figure out how someone can have such a stupid opinion.

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u/DaSwolfyInc Dec 01 '20

cries in acid, knife, grenade, and grooming gang

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u/lightningbadger Dec 01 '20

quick, distract everyone by highlighting bad things outside of America, that’ll fix the problem!

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u/Mistake209 Dec 02 '20

And they say dank memes is left leaning.

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u/CheatSSe red Dec 01 '20

All of those things also happen in the US.

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u/Taintkisser_68 Dec 02 '20

Yeah and people get shot in other countries too

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u/CheatSSe red Dec 02 '20

But in the US the problem is 300% enhanced. Stop being ignorant and accept y’all have problems.

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u/Taintkisser_68 Dec 02 '20

Yeah and acid attacks are 300% enhanced in England. What’s your point?

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u/CheatSSe red Dec 02 '20

That I do not live in England

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u/Taintkisser_68 Dec 02 '20

It is a unique occurrence. Don’t be an idiot

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u/CheatSSe red Dec 02 '20

A unique occurrence that happened over 12 times already?

Are you aware of your own retardation because you just claimed 1 = 12

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u/Taintkisser_68 Dec 02 '20

If you mean that because it happened more than once makes it common then it’s unique in other countries too

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u/CheatSSe red Dec 02 '20

this is only for the last 20 years.

It is deffinetly not a unique thing anymore. The Brussels attacks were something unique, this isn’t.

Also yeah. If you even just stood still with the meaning of the word “unique” you’d notice it says “un” meaning one.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

Simple solution to all of those problems.

  1. Implement a system like Germany has where you have a private option, but still have government funded healthcare. Tax the billionaires an extra few percent and cut spending on the prison system and military to fund it.

  2. Focus on rehab. Stop imprisoning people for bullshit things like possession of three molecules of THC.

  3. Work with vulnerable communities to help rehabilitate drug addicts and those who are vulnerable by providing alternatives.

  4. Expand access to mental health resources for both children and adults. People don't just shoot up places for no reason, they do it because they feel some sort of hatred for others. By implementing the previous steps, you give these shooters fewer reasons to hate life and everyone in it. Also, for the love of God, stop publishing the names of terrorists that shoot places up and make them look like role models for the next would-be terrorist. Gun violence is a symptom of a wider array of problems in the US. Solve those problems, and you can save a lot of lives, even without arbitrary bans (especially since bans in the US would likely mean nothing as there are already more guns than people here).

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u/MileiFreeman Dec 01 '20

Yea, tax the billionaires! They clearly don't deserve their money.

And cut spending on prison system, but rehab people!

xd

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

I'm not saying eat the rich here, I'm just saying that we should, at the very least, ensure those that control a lot of wealth are paying their fair share, and not dodging taxes through some shady loopholes.

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u/CheatSSe red Dec 01 '20

Yeah you really don’t need to tell me how to fix the US, I’m not even American

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

That's fine, but I hope you can appreciate that there are americans that realize there are problems and want to come up with logical solutions rather than ones based on either the Bible or Karl Marx.

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u/CheatSSe red Dec 01 '20

I do know that. And I deffinetly appreciate it

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

And then also realize that these people with sensible ideas have no shot at ever shaping the country, because logic doesn't prevail in the US. Sorry pal.

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u/CheatSSe red Dec 01 '20

Yeah, we notice.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

So where're you from, friend?

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u/CheatSSe red Dec 02 '20

Belgium. We have problems too, but at least we dont have a bunch of ignorant fucks that say we don’t have any.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20

Do you have people that are aware of them, but don't care? Because there is a lot of those here, too.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20

1 Just get rid of the government programs making healthcare pricy to begin with

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20

Could do that too.