“Fact of life”, Shay Dee Vance is a mentally underdeveloped humanoid. Another, “fact of life” - there is a lot of profit and money to grease politician’s hands in those look-alike military gun sales for LARPERS.
Just as natural as love between a man and a couch.
“‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens”
A fact of American life because of idiotic gun policy.
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https://www.salon.com/2024/09/05/jd-vance-says-school-are-a-fact-of-life/?in_brief=true
If you’re down voting a fact checker, you might want to do some self reflection on why you’re upset that Salon doesn’t have a perfect rating
If you can’t tell the difference between a “fact” and the random opinion of some bot, you might want to do some self reflection in general.
It’s not really a bot’s opinion though? It’s reporting on salon in general, and letting you know that the reporting has a bias, which means generally, it might promote parts of the story that show Vance in a bad light compared to other reporting, and the. The Ground News link shows that reporting on this topic across several sources tends to be pretty non biased and factual. That’s all good information to have, and saying otherwise means you want to let yourself be misled.
And everything other than joining the topic and the source is written by humans who are trying to keep people informed.
It’s the opinion of one person.
I mean, it’s pulling from MBFC and ground news, which are not both owned by Dave Van Zandt, and he doesn’t work alone. Also, when compared to other fact checking organizations, MBFC performs well, from what I’ve read. Well enough that if you find their output uncomfortable, you should be second guessing yourself.
What a coward.
So lets issue all the students guns?
Just give all the kids a few nukes.
If Mutually Assured Destruction works for international relations, surely this works for schools.
Fact of American life.
No, no it isn’t.
-residents of like 98% of the rest of the world
Countries ranked in descending order by number of school shootings from 2009-2018:
- United States: 288
- Mexico: 8
- South Africa: 6
- Afghanistan: 3
- Brazil, Canada, France: 2
- Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, Turkey: 1
One of these is not like the others. This isn’t exactly a fact of life in other parts of the world.
Per capita?
Population of the US: 330m
Brazil: 200m
South Africa: 62m
Afghanistan: 40m
Mexico: 100m
Still not looking so great.
Per gun? Guns are people too, right?
That sounds like a lot more work than just typing a country into DDG and checking the Wikipedia entry.
More data:
Top 10 Countries with Highest Gun Ownership (Civilian guns owned per 100 people):
- United States - 120.50
- Falkland Islands - 62.10
- Yemen - 52.80
- New Caledonia - 42.50
- Serbia - 39.10
- Montenegro - 39.10
- Canada - 34.70
- Uruguay - 34.70
- Cyprus - 34
- Finland - 32.40
10 Countries with the Most Gun Deaths (Total gun deaths):
- Brazil - 49,437
- United States - 37,040
- Mexico - 22,119
- India - 14,711
- Colombia - 13,171
- Venezuela - 10,599
- Philippines - 9,268
- Guatemala - 5,981
- Nigeria - 5,103
- Iraq - 4,424
Those numbers aren’t right.
First, the total-gun-death numbers are not population-adjusted and therefore useless without additional context. The same article does have the population-adjusted numbers and the USA is, predictably, not in the top ten.
Second, once the numbers are adjusted for population, there are some very strange results. For example, apparently Iraq actually has slightly fewer gun deaths per capita than the USA. Nigeria, the country where Boko Haram is based, has four times fewer gun deaths per capita than the USA?! Clearly the gun-death numbers correspond more to how well records are kept in a country than they do to the actual numbers of gun deaths.
Oh, and those gun death numbers include suicides, not just murders. Most gun deaths in the USA are suicides. A suicide is technically a gun death, but not usually the sort that people have in mind when discussing a school shooting.
And again the old and stupid claim from the gun nuts: suicides by firearms are no firearm related deaths…
everything you said is true. i just wanted to add something to the suicide point: owning a gun has been tied with an increased risk of suicide. source
here’s a quote from the link that i think gives a good summary of the problem:
“Suicide attempts are often impulsive acts, driven by transient life crises,” the authors write. “Most attempts are not fatal, and most people who attempt suicide do not go on to die in a future suicide. Whether a suicide attempt is fatal depends heavily on the lethality of the method used — and firearms are extremely lethal. These facts focus attention on firearm access as a risk factor for suicide especially in the United States, which has a higher prevalence of civilian-owned firearms than any other country and one of the highest rates of suicide by firearm.”
That said, where there’s a will, there is indeed a way. Japan for example has abysmal suicide rates, they have a huge shame culture and it’s culturally (more) accepted with the seppuku and the suicide forests and all, and they also have virtually 0 gun ownership. Suicide is still very easy without a gun, and a gun is not even the most effective method statistically (though I hesitate to say what is because it’s literally accessible to most of the world’s population within a 10-20min walk at all times. Don’t do it, seek help, keep fighting.)
That’s all just shooting, right, not generally a violence situation in a school?
“You cat ladies just need to make more babies to replace the children killed by gunfire in schools,” said the not insane guy who wants to rule the country and women’s bodies under Project 2025.
Jokes aside, Trump is clearly falling apart. The Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society have gone all-in on Vance. He’s the real would-be dictator. Once elections become rigged at the federal level, he will be President and your vote won’t matter.
I’d say “what the fuck” but I’m not even surprised that he said this. Bro is scum.
JD Vance is a couch fucking sociopath.
So are corrupt, do nothing, hot air spewing politicians. Weird coincidence?
Conservatism is a deadly cancer that needs to be eradicated to save humanity. There is no place in a modern culture for toxic, hate-based ideologies like conservatism. That’s just a fact of life.
