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[u/CutsSoFresh]

And they just had another school shooting recently too

[u/kingweeb6667 → u/CutsSoFresh]

How you guys doing with that event at arndale manchester mall abt a month ago?

[u/The_GILF_Next_Door → u/kingweeb6667]

What? I thought Americans only had mass shootings?

[u/kingweeb6667 → u/The_GILF_Next_Door]

Not even, and the arndale manchester mall was a stabbing with multiple victims, but dude was acting like large scale violence with a deadly weapon is exclusive to america.

[u/INITMalcanis → u/kingweeb6667]

The US also has more deaths from stabbings than the UK.

[u/Heavy_Bookkeeper_117 → u/kingweeb6667]

Mass shootings in America is a everyday normal thing.

[u/kingweeb6667 → u/Heavy_Bookkeeper_117]

So are stabbings in the UK

[u/MattTheRadarTechh → u/kingweeb6667]

And yet the UK doesn’t have a systemic problem similar to the US.

UK has a ban on guns and their stabbings are still less per capita than the US

[u/Professional-Drag-52 → u/MattTheRadarTechh]

And how many people die from the heat and cold again?

[u/MattTheRadarTechh → u/Professional-Drag-52]

What idiotic argument are you trying to make?

[u/INITMalcanis → u/MattTheRadarTechh]

We should be allowed to shoot the weather?

[u/kingweeb6667 → u/INITMalcanis]

We do that in america too, ever seen a redneck during a tornado?

[u/Professional-Drag-52 → u/INITMalcanis]

No I meant how because of how uk houses are built, their lack of AC, and the high cost of electricity they have way more heat and cold related deaths

[u/THROWAWTRY → u/Professional-Drag-52]

Mate first it's climate change so good luck you'll be in the same boat soon. Second there a reason we've just leapfrogged Japan's economy and on track to jump over Germany's. Our only fuel that's high is natural gas which is wholesale price meaning if you look per KWh Britain has close to the cheapest energy in the G7 because we use renewables. On top of that we are building heat pumps and AC across the board.

[u/Professional-Drag-52 → u/THROWAWTRY]

Climate change would affect both equally and electricity is literally double the price in the UK so you'd still get hit harder

It's gonna take awhile with the AC since only 5% of housing have them

[u/Lost-Philosophy2335 → u/MattTheRadarTechh]

"Your country hasn't solved every conceivable problem so it's fine to shoot children. Death is death. My next brilliant argument: you can die of cancer in the UK! Is your country so great now?" Brilliant job Bo Jimbo. Gold star. A plus. 👍

[u/Professional-Drag-52 → u/Lost-Philosophy2335]

No I meant how because of how uk houses are built, their lack of AC, and the high cost of electricity they have way more heat and cold related deaths

[u/Professional-Drag-52 → u/MattTheRadarTechh]

I kinda assumed you knew why the UK has such a high death rate to heat and cold compared to the US

Because housing in built for retention rather than ventilation, 95% of houses not having air-conditioning, and high electricity costs many more people die from temperature related problems than America despite these being problems with solutions

[u/Evercent → u/Professional-Drag-52]

This is such strawman behavior

"We don't have mass shootings"

"What bout the stabbings?"

"The stabbings are still less than yours."

"Well What about the heatwaves?!"

No matter what they respond with, you're just going to move the goal post again.

[u/Professional-Drag-52 → u/Evercent]

There's a very minor person capita difference to begin with 0.5 to 0.4 out of 100k

[u/Professional-Drag-52 → u/Professional-Drag-52]

Do people genuinely not know that significantly more people die to heat and cold in the uk than in the us?

And its not because of a major difference in weather but because of housing and infrastructure

[u/Leather-Tap3921 → u/Professional-Drag-52]

but that's literally not the point though

cold and heat are part of nature mate, guns aren't

[u/Professional-Drag-52 → u/Leather-Tap3921]

The amount of deaths is still more preventable than it is to find all the guns in America and take them from the citizens

The whole reason why guns became so ingrained into America is because of england ironically

[u/forhead123 → u/kingweeb6667]

Banning guns/ enforcing heavy gun rules and regulations is 1000's times easier than doing the same for knives

[u/BadahBingBadahBoom → u/kingweeb6667]

So are stabbings in the UK

Also more common in the US.

Pick something the US is actually ranked better at.