Amen
We spend so much time and energy worrying about terrorists, fascists, guns, etc when it's heart disease, fentanyl, car crashes, and cancer doing all the killing
We spend so much time and energy worrying about terrorists, fascists, guns, etc when it's heart disease, fentanyl, car crashes, and cancer doing all the killing
Car crashes: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-tra...
UK for comparison: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
To be fair though, the root cause is probably a mental health crisis, especially seeing that suicides outnumber the homicides. But it goes without question that projectile weapons make it tremendously easier for mentally ill or desperate people to kill themselves or other people.
Also, maybe this is what I get downvoted to hell for, but I'd prefer we focus on making peoples' lives better so that they want to live; banning their access to quick & painless deaths (of which guns are the ~last; most good suicide drugs have already been throttled, helium is now cut with oxygen, and hanging has only a ~70% success rate) seems like focusing on the wrong side of the equation. I want people to want to live, not be forced to continue existing because of the extreme pain of the dying process.
You turn on the news, and it'll go on and on and on and on and on about which bathroom people can or can't use, but there's nothing about heart health. If anything it's the opposite, just crazy bullshit about marauding criminal immigrants/pending climate catastrophe that stresses people out interspersed with closeups of greasy salty cheeseburgers