• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    “We need to be very clear, you are not going to get gun deaths to zero,” he said. “It will not happen. You can significantly reduce them, by having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one.”

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        i was flabbergasted when i first heard americans have security & armed guards at schools. the closest to that any of the schools i went to had was cameras watching the doors and overweight PE teachers

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          We don’t have that either. Best we can do is cops with excessive cowardice.

          Source: uvalde, unfortunately

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      I guess the guy who shot his throat won the debate about Charlies shooters being trans and from fatherless homes theory and proved him wrong