I guess not a Q topic but thought it might be topic others are interested in. My town had a city council meeting last night and one topic was gun safety. Now my guess is that things are being driven from higher up and the higher ups don't really want to address safety but gun control. Some of the lower level plebes may or may not have the same objective. Even the ones who don't, the ones who actually think they're working on gun safety, it's amazing how stupid these people are. They always assume passing gun control/restriction laws are going to make people safer. I guess they think criminals, who of course are criminals because they ignore the laws, will suddenly say "oh, they just pass an ordinance so that deviant stuff I was planning to do I can no longer do". I mean come on. How do these people tie their shoes in the morning? I guess they wear slip-ons or loafers.
Anyway, there were a bunch of women from MomsDemandAction:
Many of them claimed the same thing: that the number one cause of death in children is firearms. Well of course the number one death among children is abortion but I'm sure they don't want to talk about that.
I did a search for "child death by cause" and came upon this article and I'm wondering whether it's the article these women are getting their data from:
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/22/1094364930/firearms-leading-cause-of-death-in-children
I noticed at the bottom of it a correction:
Correction May 16, 2022 A previous photo caption on this story said that firearms were the leading cause of children under the age of 19 in 2020. In fact, firearms were the leading cause of death among that age group.
So I guess it's just the number one cause of death (supposedly) of 19 year olds.
I wouldn't be surprised if more children were killed by the covid19 vaccine than firearms. In fact I would guess child abuse kills more children than firearms.
The city council proposed 5 items for gun safety. I know the first three were items, I'm pretty sure I got the last two correct also.
- a proposed ban on open carry
- raise the age to 21 for purchasing all firearms
- a 10 day cooling off period (I think between purchasing a gun and picking it up)
- some signage requirements
- I think some additional areas where concealed carry would be banned
So, it's ok to send an 18-year-old into war, but then they want to take away his gun when he gets home?
<facepalm>
How about we train everyone on the proper handling, storage, and use of firearms?
High School
Home Education ( baking ) or Firearms Training
Regardless of what the argument says, firearms were not the leading cause of death. The firearm did not just wake up in the morning and go out to shoot somebody. Some confused, godless person was the cause of death. That's the word we live in because we have degressed to such a state that we have gay pride month instead of using this time to recognize heros in our communities.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MjMSVT2_2nM