• Aux@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Mississippi has three times more gun deaths per capita than Ukraine during an active war. Your argument is 100% invalid.

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      4 months ago

      No…no it does not…how are you even able to say that as a fact lol. Ukraine has lost around 31k soldiers since the invasion. Mississippi does not have 15k+ gun deaths a year.

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        4 months ago

        Military losses are not part of the civilian gun deaths. Ukraine lost only 10k civilians over two years. That’s 133 deaths per 1m. Mississippi is more dangerous than an active war zone, that’s a fact.

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          4 months ago

          And that’s not even the only comparison.

          https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/31/1209683893/how-the-u-s-gun-violence-death-rate-compares-with-the-rest-of-the-world

          US gun violence rate higher than nearly all Sub-Saharan countries, which are among the world’s poorest.

          When casualties of military conflicts are factored out, the US gun violence rate is higher than even countries in conflict ridden regions like the Mid-East

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          4 months ago

          Saying Ukraine during an active war which already had lower civilian gun deaths than the usa and then saying “no that’s not what I meant” is hilarious. It’s like if Germany or Poland were invaded and you said the same thing. You’re post is pointless.

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            4 months ago

            Lol wut? Once again - Ukraine during an active war IS safer than the US.

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              4 months ago

              Ukraine pre-war already had a lower firearm homicide rate than the US…on top of that, they armed a huge portion of their population when they were invaded…so your point is even worse since they gave out literal assault rifles to civilians and their firearm homicide rate was still lower… sounds like its not the guns.

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                  4 months ago

                  Lol yea safer and they handed out rifles to civilians…so what is it? Is it the guns still or not? Because last I checked militaries fight each other with real guns, not nerf.