• CannonFodder@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Yes but pools are fun and give exercise. Gun ownership is useless (since they’re no being used now against their main purported purpose).

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      17 hours ago

      I have a lot of fun going to the range and putting holes in paper. Way more fun than I have soaking in a soup of little kid urine and dead bugs in the pool.

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        17 hours ago

        Mmm dead bugs and kid piss soup. Actually I think most drownings are in private pools that aren’t really like that. But I don’t think anyone cares about guns kept at the range. It’s the general availability that means the mentally unhealthy can easily get them and that leads to problems. And it’s not the just the numbers of kids killed at schools, it’s the knowledge that this happens regularly, the live shooter drills they all have to experience. It’s traumatizing for a lot of kids.

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          14 hours ago

          The issue here is you’re wanting to take the guns, vs figuring out why it’s a recent thing that kids are shooting up schools.

          Those live shooter drills are pointless. It’s the same shit from the cold war. They do nothing to protect the kids, just as you said, traumatizes them.

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            4 hours ago

            It’s not just kids doing the shooting. It’s to do with deteriorating mental health, poor social connectedness, availability of guns, and more media reporting.
            Well the shooter drills might help. Did you know that when the j6 rioters stormed the capital buildings, the interns immediately got people to go into offices; shut, lock and barricade doors, turn off lights and hide out of sight of any windows or doors. They did this because they’d got the practice in school.