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Unfortunately, Democrats (see: CA, WA) have been straight up banning guns instead of focusing on safe ownership.

Regardless of your political affiliation, you should be very concerned about the federal government using official state militias (Nat Guard) against the states and questioning straight gun bans.

The federal government should step in for state overreach, and the state government should step in for federal overreach. If the federal government is co-opting the state militia (and while some states have non-National Guard militias, some don’t), what’s the purpose of the second amendment?

Liberals using a mental health crisis and late stage capitalism to be like:

But they need their guns in case a fascist government takes over and becomes a police state threatening to take away their rights and liberties.

Waitaminute...

Nah, I'd rather not be toothless when fascists knock on my door to take my family to a camp because I protest and help LGBTQ people with gun safety and survival training.

I don't understand how you people think asking politely to MAGA or racists or fascists for your right to exist is the to go about this. This is how we are here in the first place; they don't respect you and prefer you to be incapable of fighting back

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• Fatal automobile accidents
• Bullying
• Child abuse
• Food poisoning
• Diseases
• Cops
• Stress
• Work-place accidents
• Indoctrination
• Knives
• Ropes
• Parks
• Toilets
• Sinks
• Lockers
• Bleach
• Floor Degreaser
• Printers
• Flags
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Perhaps we could save twice that if we got universal healthcare. Investing in infrastructure to move away from car culture would do even better. Where is the active Futurist lemmy group?

Are there stats for kids killed by these monstrous pick ups? Dodge Ram, hummers etc

If only gun safety legistlation wasn't invariably gun ban legislation. No thanks Democrats, I'm trying to actually survive fascism, not do everything in my power to be completely defenseless against it.

6400 kids (10-24) successfully kill themselves every year in the US, and 2 MILLION attempt to

But..but ... but they need those guns just in case a weirdo tries to take over the government.
Or if a pants shitting reality TV 'star' goes full revenge mode when he becomes president.
Or if a child rapist, who is also a Russian asset, but who's also the best friend to a proven and convicted human trafficking paedo blackmailer strolls in and overtakes the Whitehouse and takes his KKK mask off and hops in to being a full on fascist dictator!

If any of the above ever happened you'll be glad that the Gravy Seals™ had all those guns to stop it all.
Not that the above could ever happen. Imagine that, imagine if one of those things ever happened? Wow, Impossible!! Just impossible.
...hey, wait a minute!!!!

I suspect a conservative might believe that the "gay lifestyle" kills people through AIDS, and probably believe trans people are groomed and their suicides are a result of that, so they might view LGBTQ+ rights as leading to deaths, if I had to guess

Pickup trucks - aka cars without visibility of their surroundings

What's killing our children?

A slave economy that stresses everyone and drives them to hopelessness. A carefully engineered school to prison pipeline. A broken culture that encourages anyone with the slightest bit of authority to mercilessly persecute those below them while ignoring any crimes committed by those above.

We have had guns for hundreds of years, guns aren't the problem ... hopelessness and aiming them at the wrong people is.

10 a day? Holy shit!

https://everytownresearch.org/report/gun-violence-in-america/

Hmm, what could it be?

If you extrapolate from FBI data, 90%+ of gun deaths come from handguns. Banning handguns is a hopeless endeavor - there are two Supreme Court cases from 2008 and 2010 that effectively cement handgun ownership as a constitutional right.

You could try a couple pages out of the California playbook with the handgun roster and ammo background checks to make getting them and using them kind of a pain in the ass.

I honestly don’t know what you do otherwise to make dent otherwise.