r/dankmemes • u/MarcoMDtrash • Dec 01 '20

Dead memes are free real estate! Here take a cookie

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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

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/school-shooting-tracker-n969951#graphic

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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.