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Ozmose posted...

My argument was that it's so statistically rare that there's no need to live in fear over it.

Which you're then using as the basis for saying that nothing should be done to prevent kids being murdered. That's where people take issue, because that's obviously nonsense, but the fact that people continue to cling to it is preventing the problem from being solved and literally resulting in children being murdered.

It also doesn't help that your "statistical analysis" conspicuously leaves out any sort of comparison between the rate at which kids die to gun violence and the rates at which kids die of other causes. If we do that... well, I'll let the data speak for itself:

https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-and-teen-firearm-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-peer-countries/

Oh look at that, guns were the #1 cause of death for minors in 2020, even managing to beat out car crashes (which are a major cause of mortality overall, and driving also needs some massive overhauls to improve safety all-around because vehicular mortality is also ridiculously high in the US). Per capita, American children are 7 times more likely to be killed by firearms than children in the next-highest peer country (Canada, whose gun problems largely spill over from how poorly-controlled guns are south of the border), or 19 times the average.

Now, does that mean that any individual child islikely to get shot? No. But that's entirely a reflection of the fact that any individual child isn't likely to die at all, not anything that suggests that guns aren't dangerous to children. To suggest that nothing should be done to address the leading cause of child mortality is utterly ludicrous. If anything, you should be thanking the mod in question for erasing the evidence that you said something so absurd.

Ozmose posted...

Not sure why I'm even posting this, everyone here seems to ignore what I'm actually saying and create their own imaginary conversation anyways.

See, you say this, but you came into this topic specifically to respond to everyone living in fear of having their kids be murdered, as opposed to the position people actually hold and are expressing: that too many kids are being murdered and something needs to be done to cut down on that number. You're not really in a position to criticize others (especially those are are literally responding to exactly what you said) for creating imaginary conversations.