Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Goya Foods CEO  
“We are truly blessed to have a leader like President Trump”
 
 
Oof.

Apparently, Trump’s taking over the education system  
And that means HE’S GONNA BRAINWASH AN ENTIRE GENERATION TO BECOME MAGA ZOMBIES!

@Sky2000  
Not like he was gonna do it anyways.

@igotnopicks  
Yup, He wants to turn schools and universities into hate centers

You want an easier way to kill your credibility in a political conversation, use this one particular abbreviation throw it all out the window… NPC.

@Metro_Offset  
Wrong side of the pond, mah boi.

@NitroFury  
I thought it was SJW… or it wasn’t.

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
This applies to that as well.

@Metro_Offset  
I’ll believe it when I see it. Until then, don’t count on me to embrace the American gun fetishism and rampant paranoia, because I don’t believe it’s done a lot of good against crime on your end.

@NitroFury  
Makes sense.

Business as usual on this god-forsaken sub:  

@Metro_Offset  
Well since I’m not arrogant enough to think I can, I guess i’d better just kill myself now, then! Pity I don’t have any convenient tool to do so with - aw well, guess I won’t bother.

@Metro_Offset  
Rather than be there to protect one and theirs, they’ll be there to screw one over and maybe murder some black men.

@Ereiam  
There are about 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms per year, US population is about 328 million. 0.00915% of the population dies from gun related actions each year, almost 76% are by suicide, 3% by law enforcement, and 2% by accident. So not relevant to crimes.
 
This cuts murders down to 5,577 or 0.0017% of the population. 4 cities have 30% of these murders:  
298 (5%) - St Louis, MO
 
327 (6%) - Detroit, MI
 
328 (6%) - Baltimore, MD
 
764 (14%) - Chicago, IL
 
This leaves 3,856 for for everywhere else in America or about 77 deaths per state. (As an average)
 
5,577 is a big number, but not really an epidemic. 70,000+ die from a drug overdose. 49,000 people die per year from the flu. 37,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities. 250,000+ people die each year from preventable medical errors. 610,000 people die per year from heart disease
 
Other than that, crime is comparable to European countries. Except of course Switzerland, another country with lots of guns. Its a marginal issue and always has been. Guns are cool and based, the only paranoid ones are the ones who think guns are so evil that they leave the lives of their families in the hands of law enforcement. Only libs think this way. Communists and anarchists are also based on this issue for the most part.

@Metro_Offset  
Switzerland is an aberration do to it’s illicit fortunes ensuring very low poverty and death rates as well as strict access to ammunition.

@Metro_Offset  
Just to clarify, is this a new guy or the one formerly known as Magpul?
 
And while Japan certainly has it’s issues, it was nice to visit and I would probably rather live there than America.

@Metro_Offset  
If, despite the stricter gun control, European countries really have levels of crime comparable to the US (and BTW your stats are bollocks, the number of homicides by gun in the US is at least twice as high — but even if it was accurate, it’d still be ten times the French ratio, with no mass shooting since November 2015, might I add), then why the fuck would we need guns?
 
Only Americans are this insecure about their own capacities that they’d think they need something to compensate.

@Ereiam  
It also begs the question of what Americans need them for - unless their base rate of crime is much higher?

The current focus of American idoicy shouldn’t be guns. It should be face covers.
 
Because no other nation seems to have a population so utterly incompetent as to see life saving medical equipment as some sort of conspiracy to deprive them of their rights.
 
I have honestly never been more ashamed to be an American than I am now watching these people willfully, and eagerly put other peoples lives in danger.
 
 
If the biggest problem in your life is having to wear a mask, then count yourself lucky. Because you clearly have never actually had to suffer or sacrifice.

@Zincy  
Isn’t it two sides of a coin? Except that while a gun can save your life, going unmasked… is just more comfotable?
 
(Well, I admit, I’m very bad at doing it myself. But I’m trying to get better, and if they passed a law here I’d keep to it.)

@Zincy  
Not incompetent. Hateful. As soon as it came out that masks protect other people, it was all over.

@Latecomer  
I’m a new guy. I know I’m late in the game. Call me a latecomer.
 
And my point is obviously that the rise in suicide runs much deeper than guns. In America, I think its the rise in social media coinciding with the fabric of society being ripped apart.