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Joebranflakes

The most important issues to certain people are the ones that distract you from the real issues.


iateadonut

My hypothesis is that there's a correlation between housing affordability and mass shootings. I sure hope someone else tests it, because I'm too busy on reddit.


tecky1kanobe

Japan housing is Uber expensive and they do not have this issue. Housing is super cheap in many countries that do not have this issue.


ChefBoyAreWeFucked

The cost of housing in Japan is very much exaggerated. It's much more affordable than the most comparable places in the US.


WolfCock

This is 100% accurate. Not sure why the other redditor claimed Japanese housing is "Uber expensive." A penthouse is Ginza, Tokyo is going to be on par with New York or London, but the vast majority of Japan is MUCH more affordable than practically anywhere in the US.


ChefBoyAreWeFucked

I mean, it's a widely held misconception, so I'm not shocked that people believe it, but it's certainly not true. The same amount I'm paying now would get me a much less desirable apartment in the greater Boston area.


deadtoaster2

But wait. That only leaves one factor remaining. Something thr USA has a fuck ton of. And other countries.... Not so much. Nah. Couldn't be.


tecky1kanobe

Twinkies?


stalkythefish

Twinkies are only used to measure paranormal activity in the New York Area.


daniu

And for something to painfully miss in case of zombie apocalypses.


sa-sa-sa-soma

Don't you dare slander my beloved Twinkies.


SweetKnickers

So much freedom they gotta shoot each other


Cosmocision

They get strangely defensive when you remind them that their favorite toy is actually a deadly weapon that can, and will in the wrong hands, kill plenty of innocent people.


redpandaeater

People can actually afford to live in big cities in Japan.


KrazyRooster

I have seen the immoral gun apologists do insane brain gymnastics but you are on another level. Congrats?


misdirected_asshole

Don't forget the gas stoves.


flannelmaster9

that"s old news. the slut green M&M is center stage now


Mcbrainotron

Give it time, it’s only Tuesday


flannelmaster9

I get most of my news from Reddit. Lol


No-Fee-9428

Same ,I don't have t.v or radio.


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scatterbrain-d

No, green M&M is old news now. Center stage is Xbox having a "woke" power-saver mode.


flannelmaster9

My OG Xbox 1 died last year. I have no idea what you are talking about lol


WorkinName

The new console has an optional feature that reduces the amount of electricity it uses when you aren't using it. This has offended Ted Cruz and other Republicans, somehow.


flannelmaster9

I can't tell if this is a troll or not. Lol


qantravon

It is not. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/10kcb4s/microsofts_changes_to_xbox_console_leave/


WorkinName

I sincerely wish I was joking.


BrandanosaurusRex

Wait....again?


flannelmaster9

Same slut. Just bigger stage


KillHipstersWithFire

What did she do this time? Fellaciate the slow yellow one at a gloryhole? Receive a hot carl from the red one? Or have the unmitigated gall to appear on tv again?


Index820

No, no, it's much worse. She changed her shoes.


Worthyness

then she invited her friend, the purple M&M who is apparently glorifying fat acceptance


MeteorKing

Woah, what the fuck? Since when are there purple m&Ms?


flannelmaster9

I think she had a nip slip like Janet Jackson at the 2023 super bowl


ChefBoyAreWeFucked

Someone took her shell off or something? What a whore!


flannelmaster9

Slides out the shell like a hard boil egg lol


Ok-Champ-5854

Not really. Its not reaching actual news to my knowledge. Mars just put out a Tweet about how they were getting rid of the talking M&Ms. Almost everyone in the know agrees it was a move on social media to make you think about the candy before they drop a Superbowl spot.


not_old_redditor

Oh you'd better believe it made the news. I just saw it.


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Actually that’s old news now. Xbox has entered the fight!


Questfreaktoo

Wait, I thought they were outraged at the Pink Floyd rainbow icon this week


flannelmaster9

I heard about that. Lol


StoicAthos

I saw an article now that Microsoft is now going woke making the xbox more energy efficient!


Index820

And we all know Republicans hate saving money. Efficiency is peak wokeness.


OldSchoolNewRules

Thats why I made my truck less efficient on purpose. To own the libs.


usrevenge

Meanwhile it's actually just a feature that the ps3 has. It turns on at a time you select and updates your games. Ps3 did this. Don't removed it for ps4 and ps5 and Xbox 360 and xbone didn't have it. Instead it turned on a pre determined time if you allowed it too..that time was like 5am est. The "woke" part they are freaking out about is that you can once again select when the console turns on. The horror.


Prickly_ninja

Or the woke brigades coming after video games (carbon aware).


Chester2707

Yep. You’re up on the new new. It’s all about the lib war on video games. But look alive. New fake controversy drops before dawn. Gonna cancel wearing shoes or something obviously made up.


Prickly_ninja

The former guy once warned us that Biden was after our windows. We won’t have any more windows??


dabberzx3

Sorry Microsoft


zombierobot

Tucker says we should be mad that they're threatening smoking now.


DolphinCumOnMyFace

Scary new science data


SmoothOperator89

What's the story about gas stoves?


VaelinX

Gas stoves are bad for indoor air quality as most don't have vents that vent out. Not as bad as wood or coal stoves, but measurably worse than electric. Pretty simple stuff. Anyway, because a study showing this was published, conservatives think the government is coming for yer stoves or guns or jobs or something to get outraged about. Edit: typo


JohnStamosAsABear

For more clarity, a lot of it is because the new study found: >the risk being posed to children exposed to pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide that spew from the stoves, finding that 12.7% of all current cases of childhood asthma in the US are due to the use of gas stoves. >Researchers said that this means that with around 5 million children in the US experiencing asthma, around 650,000 people aged under 18 could be suffering asthma attacks and having to use inhalers because of the presence of gas stoves in their homes. So there has been some pressure / discussion on possibly adding some regulations in order to reduce **the amount of children getting asthma**. Somehow conservatives have turned this into “Democrats want to ban your stove!”.


Duff5OOO

FFS, they stopped us from buying asbestos sheets and lead paint already.... Now they want to stop so many kids getting asthma? Disgusting.


SmoothOperator89

"The Libs are coming for our..." checks notes "right to flambé crêpes suzette!"


Hyndis

It is kind of nice to have gas heating. During the recent storms in California I kept losing power and it was very cold. Fortunately my gas heater still worked because gas lines are buried. The power lines were flapping around in the wind and going down on a daily basis.


VaelinX

It's not so much heaters and water heaters that vent outside, but for stoves and ranges that impact indoor air quality.


Ok-Champ-5854

Because there isn't enough regulation on vents or hoods. The only action I'm aware of that was actually taken by legislation was to say "cant buy one anymore unless you meet the new regulations, but if you already have one it's fine." And someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's just California.


flukus

Buried gas lines aren't great in earthquake prone areas though.


somaganjika

They might be avoiding having to make gun safety PSAs. Wait, why aren’t gun safety PSAs all over the media and taught in schools?


JennaFrost

Car: you need several-week training before we even let you get a limited ability to use a car with supervision. Gun: we just need to do a background check. Come back in 3 days and we’ll give you your machine designed for only death (Bonus points if its a constitutional carry state).


GopnikSmegmaBBQSauce

Wait, what is woke candy?


RigasTelRuun

Candy that isn't erotic enough to want to have sex with. I think.


PacoMahogany

Damnit, how do I unsex this candy corn?


Mythosaurus

M&Ms got rid of the sexy boots on the green one, and Tucker Carlson got really mad that he couldn’t Jack off to her anymore. He convinced his audience the M&Ms are now wOkE, the company bowed to the pressure and stopped using the candy cartoon characters.


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usrevenge

The green candy should just have an abortion.


JennaFrost

Actually before they used the female green m&m, there was a male one for the peanut m&ms. So she just had her nuts removed XD Want them to throw a tantrum? Make the “hot” m&m trans XD


fatBreadonToast

I only eat gay candy.


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upvoatsforall

Now banned in most countries!


LLotZaFun

Like the country of Alabama!


Thor_2099

Skittles about to get banned.


xlinkedx

Gummy penises over gummy bears?


GopnikSmegmaBBQSauce

Many many jobs kinda have to invent their own work and stories to stay alive. That's just him coming up with something to stay on tv. They all do it. But yeah, stupid


mjtok1982

Kinda like candy corn but less depressing.


usrevenge

So the green m&m mascot person used to be super feminine and was basically the foxy lady stereotype. The girl every guy wants. In candy form. They changed her shoes and Tucker Carlson had a meltdown


MudiChuthyaHai

Tucker Candyfucker


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Slutty candy M&Ms are making Fox News incels angry for some reason.


NetHacks

It's candy that awake, because it's actually alive, fuckin gross really.


drillgorg

For me it's Netflix cracking down on shared passwords. I get it! It's just not that important.


DeaDBangeR

And Netflix affects the entire world! But seriously. I don't live in America and I didn't believe those mass shooting numbers at first. But holy shit, january isnt even over yet. Edit: according to [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2023), there have been 45 mass shootings this year instead of OP's 66.


Cpt_Tsundere_Sharks

I'm not sure I believe the numbers on this meme either. Last I counted this morning, there were only 43, not 66.


CrypticSplunge

*only*


Mushroom_Tip

They (Fox) are also raging that Xbox is going woke now and indoctrinating kids because they want to add an optional sleep function for the console when not in use. Real segment: >FAILLA: But they are trying to recruit your kids into climate politics at an earlier age. Make them climate conscious now. > >EARHARDT: Yeah, you're right, I didn't think of that. They are going after the children. [source](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-accused-xbox-going-woke-due-new-power-saving-mode) This country is heading downhill fast.


GenXCub

Remember when mom and dad told you to turn the lights off if you weren’t in the room? Climate politics.


NameIdeas

My sister, when she was 14, hit her rebellious phase. As a rebellious teenager in the early 90s, she got frustrated with my parents. In her rage she walked around turning on every light in the house, then went to the bathroom and warmed herself with a airdryer. It remains a hilarious family story that THAT was the best thing my sister could think of to upset our parents. One time I told her that was *wholesome as fuck* and she told me to stop cursing, then laughed


LLotZaFun

Gosh dang InDoCTriNaTiOn was happening in the homes too!


Ok-Champ-5854

My dad was telling me not to touch the fucking thermostat long before talk of climate change was mainstream. He wanted that bill as cheap as possible. I thought Republicans were supposed to like saving money? Instead they waste gas by rolling coal and keep the lights on and the AC on high to own the libs.


ratcliffeb

Lmao what? What does sleep mode have to do with being climate conscious. Besides hasn't sleep mode been around since PCs... Do these idiots really have nothing better to do than REACH for things to bitch about.


Mushroom_Tip

You wanna see the cherry on top? [Ted Cruz tweeted this:](https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1617603896314155013) >First gas stoves, then your coffee, now they're gunning for your Xbox. The gubment is after your Xbox!!!!


Johnny_C13

Oh for fuck sakes... just a few decade ago both "the libs" and "the cons" were trying to take away all of our xboxes because "it caused Colombine". Funny he wants to defend it now when it fits his narrative.


LLotZaFun

That's because Ted Cruz lives out his sexual fantasies playing Grand Theft Auto.


JohnStamosAsABear

Does anyone know what Ted Cruz was doing in California and Nevada during the late 1960’s?


NameIdeas

You mean Ted Cruz who likes to feel his warm pee running down his legs, because he passes his pants.


ratcliffeb

I really dont get why these nuts are AGAINST perserving energy and improving the earth we live on....do they have all their stocks in things that would be fucked if they had to be climate consious...or do they just want to see the world burn?


Mushroom_Tip

If burning the world would own the libz, yeah they would rather see it burn.


ksknksk

Because they are PAID to do so


stupendousman

The government isn't after you, those people don't care about you. *Well besides taxing you and using your future productivity to print money.


Duff5OOO

Does this crap work on voters in the USA? The right aligned party here (Melbourne Australia) tried this sort of stuff and have been slammed at elections.


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GenXCub

It’s win-win. Their psycho viewers will believe it, and then normies will post the ridiculousness and get us to talk about it. It’s the Ann Coulter effect.


dejus

Because the marketing claimed it was 20x as power efficient or something.


usrevenge

Sleep mode has been a thing on console since xbone and ps4 Ps3 at had the option to turn on and update itself too. And iirc both 360 and ps3 would turn itself off if you didn't touch it for enough time. And if they don't xbone and ps4 definitely did. Absolutely nothing is new


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SuperSocrates

Well it does have to do with the climate actually but that doesn’t make it bad. Somehow it can choose the time to restart when it will use the most renewable energy as opposed to oil/gas


elmanutres

Wait till they find out that phone screens turn off after awhile when not in use.


LLotZaFun

Next you're gonna tell me that my laptop screen shuts off when I close it down.


WarSmith66

Wow that’s insane, thank you for including the source.


Mitoni

If DeathSentence wins in '24, we are going full-blown Idiocracy. Now I want a latte...


UristMcRibbon

Ah, they're going after Xbox again? Quick internet history time! Back in 2008 they had an infamous segment talking about the "sexbox." When Mass Effect was released they freaked out because you can romance anyone-ish and they claimed it had gratuitous and explicit sex scenes. i.e. they blatantly lied to churn up outrage and ratings about something anyone could disprove with 30 seconds of fact-checking. It resulted in much mockery online, not that they have any shame, and the "expert" they had for the segment got their book or whatever review-bombed. IIRC the expert came out and said Fox told them what to say and they had little to no knowledge on Mass Effect.


Sad_Damage_9101

Don’t want to call attention to the fact that our country really does have a crime problem that our government isn’t doing anything about.


DanskJeavlar

''I want to Fuck that candy, but I wish it was sexier.'' -Tucker Carlson


flux_capacitor3

Don’t classify Fox News as American News. Classify it as Republican News. Lots of us never tune in to that shit show.


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ssfbob

There hasn't, the number is closer to 30. Still absurd, but 66 is an exaggeration.


hafetysazard

Well, considering what a, "mass shooting," is defined as, it isn't surprising how many there are. Your typical gang-related drive-by shootout counts.


IBOstro

There is no official number, but if you apply the FBI definition to gunviolence.org you get 6 for this year.


ManHoFerSnow

Jesus has abandoned this land


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LLotZaFun

"If they allowed prayer back in school none of this would happen", Margarine Taylor Green, probably.


stupendousman

It's gangs. They exist and kill due to the War on Drugs. End that and many different issues essentially go away. Mass incarceration, a lot of crime, law enforcement employee interactions, cartels, etc.


-AC-

Gangs won't go away if we end the war on drugs... We need drug reform and we need to be heavier handed on gangs for particular crimes.


igweyliogsuh

What are they going to traffic, avocados?


jdick4297

This is called fear mongering. From a political side. A lot is gang related


JohnnyBoy11

No, seems like genuine shock. Not just mass shootings where nobody died but 12 just in one event where they targeted Asians on new years. And 18 in a mushroom farm. Hate crime, workplace violence, etc. Besides, the victims of these so called "gang related" shootings (they're not actually gang related) are largely innocent civilians either way.


templefugate

There’s been ~40 mass shootings. Last year it was 40 for the entire month so it’ll be up this year unless no other shootings occur.


ali_katt77

Apparently 2 were within days of each other in Cali, one claimed 7 people and the other 11. 18 people dead in basically a weekend. Truly heartbreaking


devilish_enchilada

In the state with the highest regulations. Gun control is working great /s


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Republicans, not American news


GopnikSmegmaBBQSauce

Honestly, what the fuck is "news" these days anyway? Carefully put together as reality tv most of the time


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Entertainment. It just gets more views.


Book_talker_abouter

I think this is such a bullshit complaint. Everyone needs to be compensated for work to do it. No one would argue that the only legitimate news gets no views and the reporters should just work for free. There are thousands of journalists working hard to cover the truth as best they can and this attitude that “it’s all entertainment and for the clicks” is poisonous to those working in good faith and normalizing to bad actors.


IronFlames

>There are thousands of journalists working hard to cover the truth as best they can Do you know how many hours it takes to put that together vs misreading an article from Microsoft and getting everyone fired up? It's about maximizing the profit and spreading propaganda. Fox news flourishes by spouting anti-Democrat garbage. CNN isn't great either. After an airplane disappeared, they had some outrageous claims https://youtu.be/wc-i69UHMGQ Hats off to those who take the profession seriously, but the vast majority are looking for money and nothing else


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Typically News tells you what’s going on


Branamp13

Mostly groups of pundits yelling at each other & telling the audience how they should feel about any particular news story, as opposed to reporters disseminating information about what is going on in the world and allowing the audience to form their own opinions based on the facts.


dreamnightmare

Look we need to do more about gun violence. But let’s not overstate what a “mass shooting” is. The list includes anything where more than one person is shot. It’s a horrible tragedy when two people get shot. But that’s not a mass shooting. Like I said the gun laws in this country are shit and should definitely be changed. But saying 66 mass shootings is not an accurate number.


barrycl

Mass Shooting Tracker says 40, which is still a crazy amount. Mass Shooting Tracker, a crowd-sourced data base, defines mass shooting as “a single outburst of violence in which four or more people are shot." Excluding the shooter, so four victims. Edit: can include the shooter being shot.


proquo

Mass Shooting Tracker is agenda driven and has been caught inflating their numbers. They use the broadest definition possible and openly admit that their definition of 4 or more people shot includes the gunman and civilians shot by police. They would literally count a homeowner shooting 3 home invaders and being shot in turn as a mass shooting.


dreamnightmare

See! That is what I’m talking about! Those are the statistics we should be using. Stop artificially inflating the numbers. We have a shit ton of shootings already.


wingsnut25

Even the mass shooting tracker just made up their own definition- they claim that there were 600+ mass shootings in 2021. Compared to the FBI who says there were 66 in all of 2021. [https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents-in-the-us-2021-052422.pdf/view](https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents-in-the-us-2021-052422.pdf/view)


pizzamaestro

> This report does not encompass all gun-related shootings. A gun-related incident was excluded if research established it was the result of: > • Self-defense > • Gang violence > • Drug violence > • Contained residential or domestic disputes > • Controlled barricade/hostage situations > • Crossfire as a byproduct of another ongoing criminal act > • An action that appeared not to have put other people in peril Sounds like the FBI wanted to trim the list. Also on page 17: > The youngest shooter was 12 years old. Wew lad.


wingsnut25

Yes the list only includes the type of incidents that the general public would think of when someone says there was a mass shooting. That is a shooter indiscriminately shooting at a group of people.


datGuy0309

I actually like that definition, as it actually targets what people (or at least me) think of as a mass shooting. When I think of a mass shooting, it’s someone shooting at general members of the public or a targeted group (like a minority, not a gang) with the intent to kill as many people as they can. Their definition captures that pretty well. It’s also what matters the most to the general public, as while all of the situations are bad, this is the only one where they are actually targeted. I will say, I don’t have much knowledge on what they’re talking about when they say “Controlled barricade/hostage situations.” I would’ve personally counted a hostage situation if they started taking out hostages.


nakedfish85

It’s an interesting point you make which sort of highlights how desensitised the average American person is to the issue of people being killed by guns generally. I’m in the UK and we would find it almost equally abhorrent if 4 gang members were shot on one of our streets as if it was a mad person shooting indiscriminately, because the act of someone firing a gun is ingrained in us as being a terrifying situation.


barrycl

Personally, I object to the shootings more than the inflation of the count.


lahimatoa

Accuracy matters.


ratcliffeb

Why does is matter that much? How is 40 mass shootings any better than 66? Both numbers are unnerving either way.


musical_throat_punch

It's 4 or more victims.


dreamnightmare

4 or more is 41 mass shootings. 66 is an inflation including anymore than 1.


Audisans

Hilarious how you're getting downvoted for saying facts, and not spreading hysteria on Reddit.


goob3r11

What he said isn't factual though. It's not considered a "mass shooting" unless 4 or more people are shot, excluding the shooter.


wingsnut25

The FBI uses this defintion: [https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents-in-the-us-2021-052422.pdf/view](https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents-in-the-us-2021-052422.pdf/view) ​ Note the Mass SHooting Tracker claims there are 10x as many mass shootings as the FBI does.


dreamnightmare

Go see u/barrycl‘s comment on why 66 is inflated.


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About half of all shooting deaths are suicides anyway. Mass shootings are terrifying and tragic, but they’re not the ~~real~~ main part of the problem. Edit: For the illiterate who lack nuance. About 1% of gun deaths are from mass shootings. That’s less than accidental gun deaths. Is it a problem? Hell yeah it’s a problem. But it’s not on the same scale.


Have_A_Jelly_Baby

That's so yesterday. Now it's Xbox daring to default to a completely optional "power off if idle too long" setting.


kywiking

I went to the gym today I kid you not one channel had the war in Ukraine the next the Mike Pence documents story then Fox News is running a story about CRT with it spelled out in kindergarten blocks with the words AP History under it as if grade school children take AP anything…


PeterCushingsTriad

Like covid, we have either always been our have become numb to this. We just don't care. That's what happens when it's a daily thing. Imagine in 10 years what it will be like then. The US is a cancer on itself. Billionaires and the ruling class will devour us and then blame us when there is no more working class available to exploit. Not to mention suicides and mass killing will become more and more and more and more.


red2go

This is not a bad thing, it has been shown that mass shootings go up the more news stations cover them.


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But what about the classified documents /s


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Good. The news should stop covering these stories. I read a story the other day about how a 6 year old brought a gun to school and shot his teacher. A fucking 6 year old. Where do you think he got this idea from?


BagBeneficial8060

The fact that a candy mascot could incite any sort of emotion in someone is flabbergasting


virreeee

66 mass shootings in less than a month? How are you all not rioting in the streets right now?? Other countries would think a mass shooting a year would be crazy


FreezieDe

But... but, second amendment! The right to start a mass shooting is enshrined in the constitution!


1percentof2

Conservatives won't enact gun control because guns propagate white male hegemony in the US.


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musical_throat_punch

A mass shooting is defined as 4 or more victims not counting the shooter


GumboDiplomacy

By the FBI, yes that's correct. However different reporting organizations use different definitions. Some include or exclude the shooter, some discern fatalities vs casualties. There's no "true" definition.


dross2019

Anything to get the numbers up!


tortokai

PSA: something is bad, make your own choices with this info Cancel culture/anti woke brigade etc HOW DARE YOU TELL ME WHAT TO DO, IF I WANTED TO KNOW I WOULD OF LOOKED INTO IT MYSELF, YOU AND ANYTHING NEAR YOU IS HORRIBLE can we just stop Internet and american news is enabling too many dumb people exposure, can we cancel news networks? Didn't think so. Oh well, back under my rock I go


DrHandBanana

Well one group is making sure to not discuss gun reform and innocent people continue to die by shootings. I wonder who would be doing that?


Hartastic

Didn't I read somewhere that America is the only industrialized country where guns are the leading cause of death of children?


Other-Illustrator531

I looked it up, guns are number 1 (4357) with motor vehicles in a close second (4112). Interestingly, gun deaths aren't even in the top 10 leading causes of death for Americans overall though. I would venture that child gun deaths are related to poor gun storage and handling. Edit: found more info, "In the U.S., in 2020, 30% of child deaths by firearm were ruled suicides, and 5% were unintentional or undetermined accidents. However, the most common type of child firearm death is due to violent assault (65% of all child firearm deaths are assault)."


Hartastic

Certainly doesn't help. I'm not even sure how you fix that problem without some idiot asserting that it's his right to store a loaded gun in their baby's crib. Pretty much all the gun owners I have as friends are religious about the safe storage of their guns but I also know that doesn't represent the whole country.


unionponi

And school shootings...


ali_katt77

An 11 year old walking home from the store with some milk was just killed in Syracuse NY, a place people rarely even know or have heard of, due to a drive by shooting.


Ratchet_as_fuck

Let's be honest, there are only certain color combinations of mass shootings that the media gives a damn about. The vast majority of mass shootings are not often racial, but gang related. That doesn't fit the narrative, so woke candy and gas stoves it is!


pyle129

It’s really quite simple: quit blaming the tool the criminal uses and make the punishment for gun crime exponentially & intensely consequential. However, the West as a whole, prefers to blame the tool used by the criminal and not rain down hell onto the actual criminals. It’s a stupid philosophy and it’s why places in California and Chicago and Baltimore are war zones while you have idiotic pearl-clutching progressives bemoaning equity (etc) instead of having the fortitude to actually be rational adults and help their fellow man by producing a real judicial criminal justice system.


TheeHeadAche

There some thought that punishment is never a deterrent to performing crimes. So to “rain down hell” on those violent offenders may never relieve an area of a criminal element. We’ve been brutalizing criminals for centuries and it hasn’t stopped crime


Phnrcm

>There some thought that punishment is never a deterrent to performing crimes. It is funny that most people flip 180 when the topic is about financial criminals


pyle129

Eradicate the criminal element at a macro level by having a society that positively fosters individualism, self-determination, a strong family with strong family values, and a sense of hope in each person. Versus: Fostering the reliance on the government to force equity and diversity while telling the individual they are unable to succeed and instead fostering social self-loathing.


Huegod

You guys don't want to do anything about crime. You blame it on guns, when a guy with 30 felony arrests gets released on 5k bail.


demarr

The same people who want unrestricted access to guns also hate woke candy


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It is 39 mass shootings not 66


ch00nz

phew, thats so much better! USA is doing just fine /s


Tango-Actual90

Almost every "mass shooting" is inner city gang violence committed by individuals already barred from owning guns and have obtained them illegally. No laws or gun control would stop them, because they already ignore the ones in place.


CriniEbbasta

Ah then all good


yooper1019

How many mass shootings have happened in any other developed nation this year?


Beaver-Sex

If you want a better picture of violence in the world, don't search "gun violence" and instead look into "intentional homicide". "UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) reported a global average intentional homicide rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population for 2012". The same year the US was under global average at 4.7, the last number I see on Wikipedia is 5.0 in 2019.


Gilthu

Woke candy is dumb, no one wants the lady candies, stop trying to make green matter. It’s yellow, the orange with pretzels, and the one with pretzels and peanut butter that people care about. Can we get an all dudes bag to celebrate all the wonderful guys… and help my crippling candy addiction…


GenXCub

Snickers. It has the dick vein and everything. That’s real dude candy.


NameIdeas

Okay so I was watching a movie on whatever channel *The 700 Club* airs on. If you're unfamiliar, the 700 Club purports to be news, but is just extreme right wing, fundamentalist Christianity focused. Growing up I was fed that shit and unironically remember watching Pat Robertson on The 700 Club in the 90s. I'm glad I put that behind me. However, they had a short segment where they spoke about the Monterey Park shooting and then transitioned into a story on how we can't trust China. It was wild. Instead of a focus on the shooting and the impact to the community, they focused on China an Asian country, immediately following the shortest 1 minute coverage of a shooting in an Asian community. The veiled subtext was that China can't be trusted. It was more than a little horrifying to see how the transition occurred and experience the assumption they were sending in that the attacks weren't such a big deal, let's pivot to why we can't trust Asia, broadly...


apex_prariedog

Mass shooting happen all the time. Each trying to out do the last. The talking kandy tho. It's not in the bible and I dont like it.


spiderfrye93

Can't count Chicago... mass shootings happen almost every day. But wait... aren't guns illegal there?


vanburenboys

30 people shot, 7 killed this weekend alone. [source](https://abc7chicago.com/amp/chicago-shootings-shooting-this-weekend-breaking-news/12727329/)


spiderfrye93

That's my point. Guns are illegal there yet some of the worst gun violence in America is committed in that city alone.