• SPRUNT@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It’s a good argument, but it’s entirely flawed because American policy is that the children have no worth until they pay taxes.

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      7 months ago

      While preventable child deaths are obviously terrible, I feel like this could be overextended.

      Like, how many child deaths has McDonald’s caused vs guns. I’m too lazy to do the math like the other guy, but I’d presume it’s comparable. (Although I suppose by the time it catches up to them they’re no longer children.)

      Idk, you see things like, “leading cause of death in children” and it makes the number seem huge, but it’s less than 100 kids a year. And it looks like around 400/yr die from drowning in swimming pools. So if we really care about the children, we should bad swimming pools? They kill 4x the number of kids than guns.

      I’m not saying guns are great. But using child deaths as part of the argument just feels like a great excuse to ban literally anything you just don’t like.

    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Accidental deaths from firearms can be reduced by making people get obligatory training and requiring storage in a gun safe, when not carried.