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I shook my head a little when you talked about a child being shot “a couple of years ago.” In the US, gun violence is one of the leading causes for child mortality, every year. In 2020 and 2021, firearms contributed to the deaths of more children ages 1-17 years in the U.S. than any other type of injury or illness. In 2021, there were 2,571 child deaths (ages 1-17) due to firearms.The two are not linked. I'm simply pointing out that removing guns from Britain did not remove violent crime. It simply changed the weapons used. Last night, a man had his right hand cut off with a machete in Scotland, and that's just one of many stabbings that occur every day of the week. So many young men are stabbed in London that the murders barely even make the news anymore.
It didn't even stop children being shot; a child was killed a couple of years ago in Liverpool when a hitman fired into a civilian's house that another gangster had ran into while being chased.
But we can’t make much headway, because of one group worried we’re going to “take all their guns away”—despite the fact that the 2nd Amendment exists, despite the fact that 44 states specifically have gun ownership written into their state constitutions, and despite the fact that we have 393 million fucking guns in this country (only about 6 million of which are registered, because apparently registries are terrible “infringements”).
You don’t want your country going down this road.