Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

[ScoobyDoo]

Unfortunately, I think you're only referring to 47% of the female half....

Well, sort of. It's 47% of white women. The vast majority of black women will have problem with the optimism. Who the **** knows where the Hispanics and Asians are on the scale.

All we do know is 53% of white women have no problem with what is going on.

[Swansong]

One of the reasons I used to dismiss gun control was that suicides make up an incredibly high percentage of gun deaths in the US. A suicidal person will typically use whatever tool is at their disposal to get the job done*, right? So if we're being real about the scope of our problem, we should remove those from the total. Now, the remainder is still the highest in the civilized world, but much less terrible looking.


* then, I read about suicide. The effective lethality of the means plays a whole lot into it - https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-m...case-fatality/ - where using a gun makes you far more likely to complete the job by any other means. A, unbelievably high percentage of gun-related suicides include a gun purchased just before the suicide. I'm having trouble finding the statistics I read, but https://giffords.org/issues/gun-suicide/ and https://www.everytown.org/solutions/waiting-periods/ - these argue that since, in many cases, suicide is a irrational and immediate act, requiring a waiting period would cut down on a not-insignificant percentage of successful suicides. Perhaps the person tries another method, but according to statistics, they very likely won't succeed. Whereas with a gun, they have the aforementioned 85% success rate.


So yeah. Even suicides would be cut down substantially by eliminating the ability to buy guns. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3518361/

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Perhaps if cons weren't so busy telling everyone they dropped cable, they'd know these stories run on every network.

[Kepler]

The female half of the country may struggle to match your optimism at the moment

When a person has cancer we don't say the person is cancer.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

When a person has cancer we don't say the person is cancer.

Wrong. See, Rush Limbaugh

[psych]

One of the reasons I used to dismiss gun control was that suicides make up an incredibly high percentage of gun deaths in the US. A suicidal person will typically use whatever tool is at their disposal to get the job done*, right? So if we're being real about the scope of our problem, we should remove those from the total. Now, the remainder is still the highest in the civilized world, but much less terrible looking.


* then, I read about suicide. The effective lethality of the means plays a whole lot into it - https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-m...case-fatality/ - where using a gun makes you far more likely to complete the job by any other means. A, unbelievably high percentage of gun-related suicides include a gun purchased just before the suicide. I'm having trouble finding the statistics I read, but https://giffords.org/issues/gun-suicide/ and https://www.everytown.org/solutions/waiting-periods/ - these argue that since, in many cases, suicide is a irrational and immediate act, requiring a waiting period would cut down on a not-insignificant percentage of successful suicides. Perhaps the person tries another method, but according to statistics, they very likely won't succeed. Whereas with a gun, they have the aforementioned 85% success rate.


So yeah. Even suicides would be cut down substantially by eliminating the ability to buy guns. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3518361/

We’d lead the (developed) world in gun deaths with suicides alone. But since most of them are middle-aged white men who vote Republican, maybe we shouldn’t care as much?

[MissThundercat]

In response to Uvalde, Texas is proposing clear backpacks at schools.

Anything except to deal with the actual cause, right?

[aparch]

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

In response to Uvalde, Texas is proposing clear backpacks at schools.

Anything except to deal with the actual cause, right?

Someone will cry when a girl has tampons or pads viewable through the bag

[aparch]

Someone will cry when a girl has tampons or pads viewable through the bag

Or birth control at a MS/HS.

[Jimjamesak]

Or birth control at a MS/HS.

And now you understand the real reason…

[rufus]

In response to Uvalde, Texas is proposing clear backpacks at schools.

Anything except to deal with the actual cause, right?

Wait, the gunman carried his weapons into the school in a backpack? Who knew?

Well, let's just ban backpacks.

[rufus]

Someone will cry when a girl has tampons or pads viewable through the bag

Can't, there's a tampon shortage. Thanks Biden.

[Bronco]

Wait, the gunman carried his weapons into the school in a backpack? Who knew?

Well, let's just ban backpacks.

GOP is far ahead of you on this. DeVos is for getting rid of students all together. Can't have school shootings without any schools.

[Kepler]

Can't, there's a tampon shortage. Thanks Biden.

Gals shouldn't need tampons anyway. They oughter be prangent.