• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What’s this obsession with minimising school shootings while maximising gang violence? Sounds very much like a racist dog whistle.

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      1 year ago

      Because they have different causes and different solutions.

      Car crashes are killing X people; if you insist on treating all car crashes as though they were caused by someone intentionally driving into a crowd–versus inattentive drivers or driving drunk–then you aren’t going to be able to solve the problem.