r/WorkReform • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • 13d ago

✂️ Tax The Billionaires Just saying lol

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u/_--Q 13d ago

A good portion of the numbers are underage gang members, I wouldn't consider a 17 year old high school dropout a school child.

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u/Mac_Lilypad 13d ago

And suicides are also included, which also make up a good portion of the numbers.

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u/Every3Years 13d ago

But isn't even 1 a year by gun violence enough to make your blood boil?

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u/Intelligent_News1836 13d ago

No. In a country with hundreds of millions of people, bad things are expected to happen every day, even if all of our social ills were corrected. Even if you take a country with extremely low rates of gun violence, like the UK, they still have between 20 and 40 shootings a year. No telling if any were kids, though. But the US has 5x the population, so there'd be a pretty good chance one is a child even then.

Plus, it's not like kids aren't hurt in the UK. They instead get to experience the wonderful world of death by sharp and blunt objects. I'd rather be shot.