It increased because of the pandemic, which was an outlier year.
Wait is that really how blurry it is in game? That would make me sick trying to play a game like I was nearsighted constantly.
O I know, I just keep trying to figure out why the hell the rest of the federation hasn't defederated from them yet.
Lol ok tankie, I provide links and sources and you provided tankie shit talking points.
What type of response is that...if you have proof from a factual source, then post it. Stop talking like you're some wise tankie jedi.
The fuck are you talking about, they get 70% of their power from coal, they built 6 new plants in 2023. What the hell makes you think they're going to fullfil their agreements?
Lol China didn't start the fire, but they're literally pouring gas on it.... it's those damn western capitalist faults.
Lol they also built more coal plants than the rest of the world combined in 2023
I swear you tankies are a hilariously ignorant bunch.
HOWEVER.. The entire point of the amnesty, is to make it illegal for ownership of certain firearms, make them illegal to resell, etc., but you give people incentive to give up and make money from the ones they shouldn't own
The issue is the antigun groups are targeting rifles. You know how many people are killed by rifles a year? 1.5-2.5k, this is all rifles and shotguns combined. You know how many people are killed by AR-15s a year? 50-100...yea the weapon of choice for murder here in the states is handguns. It's not about keeping people safe, it's about virtue signaling to their base.
Over time, you end up with far less guns in circulation.
Pandora's box is open here. There is no closing it
That's what happened here in Australia.
Not really, you all now have more guns in civ hands than before the ban. Ratio wise it's less but that's because you have more people.
You might still have a huge amount of firearms, but the aim isn't to solve the problem overnight. But, it saves a huge amount of the problem immediately, and over time, it solves the issue..
Unless you plan on banning knives, which kill around 3.5k a year (yes that's correct more than all rifles and shotguns combined) then it's not about saving lives. It's about saving certain lives.
It works.. It worked for us. You're playing the short game.
It worked for you, because you have safety nets. You don't have a shit ton of gangs and drugs flowing through the streets. You don't have cartels 4 foot from your boarder. You also don't have the population size we do.
You're trying to argue that unless the solution is 100%, it isn't worth pursuing.
No, I'm arguing that it's a solution that will not work for even 5%. As I have explained above, rifles which are the targets, make up basically nothing when it comes to firearm deaths. Yet they're the constant focus. If we're to fix our violence issue here in the USA, we need to help get people to stop being violent first.
No, but we have some of the most effective protection against shootings in the world. So it would be silly to ignore a working solution. We don't have a lot of the things on that list
You have some major ones on that list. You for one don't lock up everyone who is a non violent drug offender to the point that you create broken homes which fuels gang membership. You don't have qualified immunity either, which here in the USA, 1 in 40 of our gun deaths is by the police. (Yes you read that correctly, the police here kill on average 1k Americans a year via firearms). You have single payer healthcare, you give a shit about your citizens and have safety nets. We lack so much that it drives our citizens into poverty and creates prime circumstances for violence.
You in Australia did not have anywhere near the firearms we have in civ hands. Even then, the forced confiscation you did only 60% turned in their firearms. You know what %60 leaves here in the states? Over 100 million firearms in civ hands.
The drug wars target mainly minorities which cause parents to go to jail, and kids to turn to gangs. It absolutely has an effect on our gun violence. Which the mass majority of our violence comes from is gang related, not random shootings like you hear in the news.
Correct. The majority of our prison is non violent drug offenders, who lose their children, which end up in bad situations...which cause some of them to turn to gangs for that family role. It's a cycle that feeds violence, and the most fucked up part, is it drastically effects minorities more than anyone else.
Even just single payer would drastically help our citizens health
Welcome to "bigotry 101"...o it says your trans here....denied....o you have adhd....denied... depression...denied....ptsd from a previous rape....denied.
Absolutely! Add in maternity/paternity leave that allows the parents to bond with their child for at least 6 months.
Yea I wrote that in the AM without my brain having been fully awake lol fixed the formating cause that was a hot mess to read.
If the dems had a spine they'd use their antigun capital on getting single payer passed. It would probably cut gun deaths in half alone.
Here I'll fix our problem
Pay teachers more
Build more schools to reduce class sizes
Make sure all kids have access to school food 3 meals a day
Single payer healthcare
Increased mental healthcare facilities and workers so kids don't turn to suicide
Improve safety nets
End the war on drugs
End for profit prison system
End qualified immunity
Hey look gun violence has dropped like a hot rock...
But no please keep doing the same shit and spend political capital on shit a very large portion of the usa doesn't want.
Or .... stop working for religious institutions that have policies like this
See if you can find a farm vet, they'll come to your house and euthanize you're pet with you there and then you can bury him yourself on your own property.