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mschuster91yesterday at 10:09 AM1 replyview on HN

> That's where the mass shooters evidently come from.

Bollocks. European teenagers watch just as much porn and play GTA at age 10 and yet we don't end up having 12 children a day die from gun violence [1].

Note, I'm not an anti-gun nut, I think German and British anti-gun laws are ridiculously strict. But the American way of dealing with guns is equally bad.

[1] https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/resources/gun-violence-fact...


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technothrasheryesterday at 1:37 PM

> we don't end up having 12 children a day die from gun violence

Note that this definition of "children" includes ages up 24 years old. Not that the US doesn't have a gun violence problem, but pretending 24 year olds are "children" in order to gain a better sound bite doesn't help anybody.