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What are the biggest issues for you for the 2024 presidential election (self.conservative)
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I'm new to Lemmy, and trying to get a gauge on the community. Unfortunately, it seems that it's just gonna be another heavily left wing website, but hoping that the smaller pockets of users will be reasonable.

What are the issues that the Conservative community here cars about most?

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[–] PizzaMan 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The number one cause of deaths for children in the U.S. is firearms. The U.S. is unique in this. Most other countries have been able to figure it out and deal with it, and they do so through gun control.

I firmly believe that if you want gun control, you’re either an idiot or a bad person.

You honestly believe that following in the footsteps of the rest of the developed world to reduce the deaths of children makes somebody an idiot or a bad person? That's ridiculous.

[–] Blamemeta -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The number one cause of deaths for children in the U.S. is firearms. The U.S. is unique in this. Most other countries have been able to figure it out and deal with it, and they do so through gun control.

Only if you don't count under 1s and you do count 18 and 19 year olds. Lying with stats at it's best.

You honestly believe that following in the footsteps of the rest of the developed world to reduce the deaths of children makes somebody an idiot or a bad person? That’s ridiculous.

Yes. Have you seen the rest of developed world?

Australia prohibitted fucking Muskets and now they banned Hentai (which is the government basically saying "You are not adults, drawings are for adults only"). They also can't figure out how to house their people, and they're going after Indigenous people. They've heavily curtailed freedom of movement, to the point a baby died because they couldn't get care. At one point, there were only 4 affordable places for rent in the entire country, and they decided to keep importing people (a byword for cheap labor).

Britain is going after knives now, and they convicted a guy over a joke (as in a joke that was spoken, and was clearly a joke, not even questionably a joke). They've heavily curtailed freedom of speech. The NHS is failing, and they keep importing more people (cheap workers, not doctors) further overloading the system. Not to mention their housing crisis.

Canada is facing similar problems, going after native Canadians, healthcare system overloaded, housing crisis, cheap labor pushing wages down.

I'm not saying America is perfect, but Lord Almighty are they having a hard time, and it's entirely self-inflicted. And lefties wonder why the right wing is on the rise.

[–] PizzaMan 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only if you don’t count under 1s and you do count 18 and 19 year olds. Lying with stats at it’s best.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761

I'm not lying with stats. It's how this is tracked. Distrusting the experts is how we got into this mess in the first place.

Yes. Have you seen the rest of developed world?

Yes. I've seen how they prevent children from getting shot in their schools. We should do the same.

Not gonna bother touching the rest of what you said since it simply isn't relevant to gun control.

I’m not saying America is perfect, but Lord Almighty are they having a hard time, and it’s entirely self-inflicted.

They have self inflicted lower rates of children firearm deaths. Here in America it is only growing.