Comment by mschuster91
5 days ago
> That's where the mass shooters evidently come from.
Bollocks. European teenagers watch just as much porn and play GTA at age 10 and yet we don't end up having 12 children a day die from gun violence [1].
Note, I'm not an anti-gun nut, I think German and British anti-gun laws are ridiculously strict. But the American way of dealing with guns is equally bad.
[1] https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/resources/gun-violence-fact...
> we don't end up having 12 children a day die from gun violence
Note that this definition of "children" includes ages up 24 years old. Not that the US doesn't have a gun violence problem, but pretending 24 year olds are "children" in order to gain a better sound bite doesn't help anybody.
If you look at the actual statistics there are 1300 annual homicides killing children which amounts to 3.5 children + teenagers a day.
Then there are gun suicides which I would not count as gun violence, amounting to another 3.5 children + teenagers a day.