https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans
Leaded gasoline calculation to have stolen over 800 million cumulative IQ points since 1940s
A new study calculates that exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood stole a collective 824 million IQ points from more than 170 million Americans alive today, about half the population of the United States.
Boot leather for breakfast, interesting choice.
It’s not “what about Europe”, it’s “here’s a study from a very credible university looking at 130 different studies from all around the world, oh and here’s another from another credible university, looking at all the objective information we have on the issue”
I’m not making an argument. The studies are.
https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/insights-blog/acting-data/gun-violence-united-states-outlier
https://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/140.full.pdf+html
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/
Yeah no, I care about children being massacred, and willfully ignorant people like you are the thing that’s making life less safe for children in your country. Just like I care about the genocide in Palestine and other threats to basic human rights, I care about the children in your country, and honestly, it’s really weird that you’ve been brainwashed so badly that you don’t, since caring for children is a very primordial instinct.
from 15-19 year olds. no, they’re not children
Keep shifting the goal post to younger and younger?
If you’re even close my age, that’s fucking sad man. If you’ve gotten over the age of 35 and still think it’s okay when kids die because they’re teenagers, live in bad areas (and are usually minorities), then… how the fuck do you sleep at night?
The mental gymnastics is goddamn impressive.
Is that why they’re allowed alcohol in most of Europe at that age?
The age of consent is on average 16, and in lots of countries you may have a light alcohol beverage with a meal if accompanied by your guardians. Just like with your driving licences. A “learner’s permit” if you will, because we understand that these are kids on the verge of adulthood, so they’re gradually allowed to do more and more adult things. You can have a mild drink with a meal at 16, buy yourself drinks at a bar and purchase wines and milds from stores at 18 and when you’re 20, no limits anymore. You can drive a <11kW bike at 16, a <25kW at 18 and any power at 20. Because again, developing, so gradually ease them in so they’re ready when they’re fully-grown as opposed to being a developing young human being.
People’s brains don’t even fully mature until they’re ~26, but you try to shirk responsibility of children getting slaughtered with an excuse of “well most of them are older kids who live in poor socioeconomic areas, so why would their deaths matter”.
Like I said, there’s never any science with you people, always the same chants of “not kids”, “muh rights” (a right to a gun isn’t a human right) and “but then only criminals will have guns” and you never ever read any of the science on the matter.
my whataboutism is still waiting
No shit? You’re too thick to read a simple summary from Harvard and you excuse the leading cause of children being guns as “most of them are black teens so they’re criminals anyway so who cares”, so why would you accept science concerning your shitty “what about”?
Here’s a summary of the OXFORD UNIVERSITY study I have linked several times:
Santaella-Tenorio’s study (co-authored with Columbia professors Magdalena Cerdá and Sandro Galea, as well as the University of North Carolina’s Andrés Villaveces) examined roughly 130 studies that had been conducted in 10 different countries. Each of those 130 studies had looked at some specific change in gun laws and its effect on homicide and/or suicide rates. Most of them looked at law changes in the developed world, such as the US, Australia, and Austria, while a few looked at gun laws in developing countries, specifically Brazil and South Africa.
###“… SPECIFICALLY BRAZIL …”
So why don’t you actually read the fucking thing? Just like I’ve been saying all along, you’re nothing but a willfully ignorant gun nut parroting propaganda you’ve overheard, and you never ever have a single piece of peer reviewed study to support your regurgitated bullshit.
Also, you want to know about the reasons for South American instability and crime? How about a look in the mirror?
https://www.cepr.net/how-us-guns-destabilize-latin-america-and-fuel-the-refugee-crisis/
In August, the Mexican government sued US gunmakers for facilitating the high gun homicide rate in Mexico. Most people in the US who heard this news were probably confused, not understanding what US gunmakers have to do with homicides in Mexico. If they were to read Ioan Grillo’s excellent book, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels, they would understand completely. They would learn that Mexican law enforcement estimates that 2.5 million guns have been smuggled from the United States into Mexico over the past decade. They might even wonder why other countries in Latin America aren’t also suing US gunmakers
The Americas is the most homicidal region on the planet due, in no small part, to the “iron river” of guns flowing from the United States to Latin America and the Caribbean. The above figure from Our World in Data, based on data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, shows that Canada had a gun homicide rate of 0.5 deaths per 100,000 in 2017. In the US, the rate was 4.63, approaching 10 times the rate in Canada, while in Mexico, it was 11.49, more than 20 times the Canada rate. Excluding the Americas, all countries in Europe, and most countries in the rest of the world had lower gun homicide rates than the US. (Some people incorrectly believe that there is a higher rate of gun ownership in Canada than in the US, but the Small Arms Survey reports that in 2017 Canada had 34.7 guns per 100 residents, compared to 120.5 in the United States. The gun ownership rate in the US is more than three times the rate in Canada.)
Although how would you ever read a book on the matter, when a page long summary gives you trouble.
And that’s not even the only comparison.
US gun violence rate higher than nearly all Sub-Saharan countries, which are among the world’s poorest.
When casualties of military conflicts are factored out, the US gun violence rate is higher than even countries in conflict ridden regions like the Mid-East
See how you need to use the qualifier “legal” there.
Why is that?
Is it because you too understand that teenagers aren’t in fact fully grown human beings.
Remind me, what’s a word for a human being when they’re still growing to the state they are when they’re in their adulthood? A cid? Khildren?
“I’m gonna have to block you” <-- ofc you will, all you gun nuts hate listening to facts and reality, because it conflicts with everything you believe in.
You annoyed to be living in a third world country? There’s a really simple solution that would make it so that children are less likely to be slaightered, but you refuse to accept it because you’re too lazy to read actual science.
Gun control works as surely as antibiotics do.
https://www.businessinsider.com/science-of-gun-control-what-works-2018-2
Within the US, gun violence varies widely. Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates range from a high of 14.4 per 100,000 in Washington, DC, to a low of 1.1 per 100,000 in New Hampshire. Washington, DC’s rate is similar to those of Brazil and Jamaica, which rank ninth and tenth globally. New Hampshire’s rate is similar to that of Chile. Even though New Hampshire has the lowest rates of age-adjusted firearm homicides in the US, its rate is still three times greater than the highest rate in Europe – Cyprus, with 0.36 deaths per 100,000.
https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/insights-blog/acting-data/gun-violence-united-states-outlier
https://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/140.full.pdf+html
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/
“Seek help”
For what, exactly? Do you know what this tells me. It tells me you’re projecting. Which means I’ve made you very mad indeed by noting how there’s literally no science on your side and that you live in a shithole. Guess it’s you who needs help. People are offering it, but you’re too brainwashed to accept. As your former (and possibly future) president would say: “SAD!”
19/18 year old is A) not a child
So these teenagers you speak about, you think they’re not children?
Let me guess, you’re like 20-23?
Yes, 18 and 19 year old are non-fully developed humans. Still developing. Not finished. SO MUCH SO, that they CAN AREN’T VENE ALLOWED BEER.
It’s so pathetic the excuses you keep making to try and spin a horrible fact into something that doesn’t need to be worried about.
Like compared to Europe, America really is on the level of developing countries, and even worse in a lot of instances.
https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/insights-blog/acting-data/gun-violence-united-states-outlier
Science agrees that gun control works. It’s just a fact. A fact you won’t be able to accept, no matter what.
The facts I use are from statistics from the FBI, statistics don’t lie
How would the FBI have any data on nationally implemented gun control? Perhaps by reading studied from Oxford and Harvard.
What you’re doing again is crying instead of having any science on your side, even your “FBI facts.”
This “argument” is exactly what I meant when I was calling for a gun nut to come show their insanity.
You have a tantrum, deny the science and then say things like “sounds like their policies didn’t work”, when you still refuse to ACTUALLY READ the study and can’t provide anything against it.
Cry cry cry. Zero science. Like always.
Yeah, see I’m from an actual first world country, we have good education, so I understand empathy and how interconnected the global community is. But you don’t even care about your own children getting massacred. How utterly disgusting.
You ignore everything. Perhaps you’re actually so delusional you don’t realise you’re willfully ignoring something? Here are simple words for you:
Gun control works as surely as antibiotics do.
https://www.businessinsider.com/science-of-gun-control-what-works-2018-2
What you’re doing is crying a lot, denying the actual studies which have been done in, among other countries, Brazil.
You’ve never read a single one, because people like you never do. Instead you think your making aa good case by calling Harvard and Oxford studies “emotional bullshit” while thinking the garbage you pull out of your arse are “facts, my facts are real facts”.
You seriously think you’re gonna “debunk” large peer reviewed studies by the world’s most esteemed universities by going “b-b-but w-what about B-Brazil…?!” (It’s called whataboutism, a rather childish propaganda tactic.)
Since the studies are too hard for you to read:
Within the US, gun violence varies widely. Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates range from a high of 14.4 per 100,000 in Washington, DC, to a low of 1.1 per 100,000 in New Hampshire. Washington, DC’s rate is similar to those of Brazil and Jamaica, which rank ninth and tenth globally. New Hampshire’s rate is similar to that of Chile. Even though New Hampshire has the lowest rates of age-adjusted firearm homicides in the US, its rate is still three times greater than the highest rate in Europe – Cyprus, with 0.36 deaths per 100,000.
https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/insights-blog/acting-data/gun-violence-united-states-outlier
https://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/140.full.pdf+html
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/
You’re never going to admit you’re wrong, no matter how bad it gets in your shithole of a country. Why is that? Wouldn’t it be better to admit how fucked up it is, to start fixing it? Or do you just like living in an unsafe shithole?
In the rest of the world, saying “boo-hoo, whatever” to child massacres you could prevent simply by accepting the scientific consensus is viewed as less than civil.
No, no it doesn’t.
Yes, it does.
Refusing to believe science, asserting your bullshit as more credible than Harvard and Oxford.
Always the same.
More crying, more bullshit NRA propaganda, zero science.
Exactly the same with gun nuts, always.
He’s literally using whataboutism.
It’s a garbage rhetoric “tactic” and you should not engage in it with him.
Going “b-b-but bathtubs” isn’t him showing any science on gun regulation, it’s pathetic whataboutism, all people like him are capable of.
And even with cars, a mode of transport that can be fatal if there’s accident (but the main use of which is transportation), there already is reasonable regulation, because ONE NEEDS A LICENCE TO DRIVE, and there are criteria you need to meet to be allowed a licence.
edit gddamn autocorrect
No no, I’m not trying understand anything here. I’m displaying how delusional gun nuts are, for example by thinking unlimited access to firearms is a “human right”? I mean I know the education in the US is bad, but that’s just… next level bad.
Again, the same “talking points”.
At least Flat Earthers try to make their own science. You lazy gun nuts literally repeat three NRA talking points on repeat.
So for you, it’s acceptable if children die if they’re in their late teens and were involved with anything illegal.
That’s quite barbaric viewed from the rest of the world, really. Just like corporal punishment in general. But you also have the whole private prisons industry thing so… Ew.
“Our children are dying to gun massacres we could easily prevent but I like my toys and can’t think for myself so I’m gonna keep spreading the things I heard on NRA.tv”
The science supports the effectiveness of rights violations?
Do you honestly think everyone having access to a firearm is a fundamental human right?
Because… it very much isn’t.
For more about those, you can read on
https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/human-rights
And here, in a listed format, and you’ll very much notice the absence of being armed.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/universal-declaration-of-human-rights/
Let’s take article 3 as an example of a fundamental human right.
Everyone has the right to life (and to live in freedom and safety).
Do you think the US would manage to better protect that right if they accepted the actual science on the issue, rhe one which proves people would be safer and there’d be less gun violence if reasonable regulation was instilled on a national level?
Hope this helps, because people like you need to be helped so we can help ensure better fundamental human rights in the US.
Works literally everywhere where reasonable gun regulation has been implemented on a national level.
https://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/140.full.pdf+html
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/
Like I said, unfortunately for you, we rational people have all the science backing us up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You follow narrative, we follow science.
I’m of the opinion that we defined it several thousand years ago, in some form at least.
https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/