• Cysioland
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    Start them young. With extracurricular marksmanship classes as well, to get them to shoot accurately

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      My high school used to have a shooting range. It was taught as part of P.E.

      You make a joke of it… but people back then legitimately did it… I feel taking that away (the fundamental understanding of what a gun is) has done a lot of harm in today’s society.

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        Somehow other countries that never had gun ranges in their schools are not having the problems America has with guns.

        I wonder why! 🤔

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          Ah yes, because learning about how guns work and firing one makes you instantly into a homicidal maniac! Better not play those videos games! I hear they make you violent.

          Edit: Just to prove the point though… British Virgin Islands is worse than America. Must be because those laws are so effective… Not because of the neighbors. Not at all.

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              Under the “crown’s” rule… and has a significantly higher homicide/gun violence/death rates. Almost like the law alone doesn’t matter if the location is terrible. Proximity to central/south America is a problem.

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                They’ve had six shooting deaths in this entire year.

                America has had 35,000

                Pretty sure the problem is proximity to America. Where do you think those guns in central/south America are coming from?

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                  You’re not looking at per capita rates are you? Way to drop the ball there.

                  their population is ~32,000, USA is about 11,000x bigger. 6*11000 = 66000, or about double the American rate!

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                    … more people have been shot to death in America than the island’s entire population! Using per capita on such wildly different population sizes is disingenuous - and This is still clearly due to proximity to America. Where do you think those guns were made? Where do you think the ammo was made?