Article was published in 2017, and gun deaths among US kids has increased 50% since 2019.
Original article: https://www.romper.com/p/a-toddler-has-shot-someone-every-week-for-the-last-2-years-straight-it-highlights-this-huge-problem-28266
2023 update from a different gun research group: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/06/gun-deaths-among-us-kids-rose-50-percent-in-two-years/
We live in hell.
Glad to see their aim got better
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Imagine what he’s going to be like when he hits his rebellious years.
Toddlers are plenty rebellious already, it’s just a different kind. Teenagers rebel against authority. Toddlers rebel against their own existence.
that little bastard
Where are all of the good toddlers with guns when you need them??
Kinderguardians https://youtu.be/QkXeMoBPSDk?si=XIxasF5ow8pFfBgW
Funny and very disappointing at the same time how he got actual politicians to endorse training for 4 year olds to shoot bad guys.
According to my quick search, it should be Not more than 5 years into the deaths by gun-wielding toddler surpass the deaths of 9/11.
Edit: I was wrong. Here are the fruits of my research:
Toddlers: about 21 deaths per year, would take until 2142 to surpass the 9/11 deaths
Kids 12 and below: 40 deaths per year, would take until 2075 to surpass those deaths
Children 17 and below, when counting accidents only, would take until 2029
Toddlers: about 21 deaths per year
Last I checked, there was more weeks than that in a year. Did those fuckers in HR go and change it?
Shot vs deaths
Ah ok, fair enough.
Now that you mention it, it was pretty silly to expect the toddler to have a 100% kill rate lol
this joke is funny here but it gets really sad when twitter and everyone repeats the same “original” knee slapper when this stat continues to be true, month after month after month 😒
I used to be an kneeslapper like them. Then I got shot by a toddler.
Right in the knee?
Columbine opened up my eyes about violence on innocent people.
Sandy hook made me realized literally the 2nd Amendment is more important than the lives of children.
If I had a genie, I’d thanos snap every gun in America. But until then, I’m gonna stay strapped and lol at the infinite sadness of our dystopian nightmare.
Well that’s the fucked part of it. There’s more of them than people. I hate to be that asshole who says “you’re only hurting the bad guys with gun control” because theres issues with that argument, but in a lot of ways it applies to the US just because theres so fucking many. You can’t get rid of them.
Take away them away and these two groups will still have them:
- Criminals (both violent and, many newly created, non-violent criminals)
- Cops (violent state-sanctioned gang with badges)
Not sure that’s really a good outcome either.
How do you expect cops and unfranchised criminals to circumvent a reality bender? I’d be more worried about the reasonable uses for guns, like flare guns, PAFS, harpoon guns, nail guns, and so on.
Not to mention that a lack of guns just means nightsticks and lead pipes become popular again.
I’m partial to the wrist-mounted trebuchet.
Look at Rambo over here, thinks he can take on The Toddler
“Time for… a nap.”
After 2 years are they still a toddler?
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I bet he’ll be able to retire at 3 years old with this many jobs
Talk about the Terrible Twos!
Why don’t Americans simply not have a larger toddler eat this trigger happy rugrat?
Jesus Fucking Christ! Someone do something about that toddler!
That’s what the toddler wants.
If we change our way of life, the toddler wins.
Toddler army UNITE
Is this another edition of The Simpsons did it first?
They will grow out of it.
Whoever said taking candy from a baby was easy must not have been American
