The ACTUAL facts about gun violence in America: UPDATED WITH 2024 FIGURES: There are 44,447 gun-related deaths per year by firearms, this number is not disputed (1). U.S. population: 340,110,988 as of July 1, 2024 (2). Do the math: 0.0131% of the population dies from gun-related actions each year. Statistically speaking this is insignificant. Not even a rounding error. What is not insignificant, however, is a breakdown of those 44,447 deaths: • 27,593 (62%) are by suicide which can’t be prevented by gun laws (3) • 636 (1.4%) are by legal intervention/law enforcement, thus not relevant to the Gun Control discussion. (4) • 450 (1%) are accidental/unintentional (5). So no, “gun violence” isn’t 44,447 annually, but rather the remaining criminal gun homicides of 15,364…or 0.0045% of the population. Still too many? Let’s look at location: 150 – St. Louis, MO (6) 203 – Detroit, MI (6) ~197 – Baltimore, MD (6) ~249 – Memphis, TN (6) 269 – Philadelphia, PA (6) 322 – Houston, TX (6) 377 – New York, NY (6) 573 – Chicago, IL (6) Total: 2,339 or 15% in just 8 cities. That’s a substantial share of the national gun-homicide total concentrated in just a handful of cities. This leaves 13,025 for for everywhere else in America...about 260 deaths per state. Obviously some States have higher rates than others. Yes, 15,364 is absolutely horrific, but let’s think for a minute...what about other deaths each year? 79,384 die from a drug overdose (7). Tens of thousands die per year from the flu (seasonal CDC estimates typically fall in the tens of thousands) (8). 39,254 people die per year in traffic fatalities (9). Now it gets interesting: Hundreds of thousands of people die each year from preventable medical errors and diagnostic harms (commonly cited estimates range from ~200,000 to over 370,000 depending on methodology) (10). You are safer in Chicago than in a hospital! 683,491 people die per year from heart disease (11) Even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths would save more than four times the number of lives annually of all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law enforcement, etc.). A 10% reduction in medical errors would exceed the total gun deaths or several times the number of criminal gun homicides. Simple, easily preventable, 10% reductions. We don’t have a gun problem…We have a political agenda and media sensationalism problem. ——sources—— 1. CDC / NCHS / Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions (2024: 44,447 total firearm deaths) 2. U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates (July 1, 2024: 340,110,988) 3. CDC / Pew Research / Johns Hopkins (27,593 firearm suicides) 4. CDC / Johns Hopkins (636 legal-intervention firearm deaths) 5. CDC / NSC Injury Facts / Johns Hopkins (450 unintentional firearm deaths) 6. City police department year-end reports / Wirepoints compilations (2024 total homicides; vast majority firearm) 7. CDC NCHS (79,384 drug overdose deaths) 8. CDC seasonal influenza mortality estimates 9. NHTSA (39,254 traffic fatalities) 10. Johns Hopkins / BMJ Quality & Safety and related medical-error literature (estimate range) 11. CDC / NCHS (683,491 heart disease deaths)

Again, you can disagree with the Pope here and remain in a state of grace. The statement “there is no such thing as a holy war” is orthodox if it means that no war becomes morally righteous merely because a ruler invokes God's name or claims divine authorization. However, to say that war can never be morally justified, that Catholics may never fight for a just cause, or that the Church's traditional doctrine of just war is erroneous, would be misleading and incorrect.

NFP truly is an iq gate. Holy hell.

For the game devs out there scratching their heads and asking themselves "how can this be?!?" Let me explain in simple terms: If profit exceeds game budget, then all is well. If game budget exceeds profit, then start packing up your office. It's in your best interest to give us what we want instead of making the gayest most unappealing shit ever.

If you needed "evidence" or "proof" that Kushner was a mossad asset you're ngmi.

Well then it's a useless document that has no remedy for our current condition. "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

One of the reasons why I'm apathetic when people get upset about AI art. I think sidestepping the gatekeepers democratizing art has stopped leftists and liberal types from dominating the field. Now we can play and not have to abide by their rules.

Remember who these people are when we take power. Harden your hearts to their cries and wailing.

Good riddance. Andromeda, Anthem. And Veilguard were 3 strikes and you're out. I did enjoy ME Legendary edition but let's not act like they were going to do anything good with the ME franchise after Andromeda.

Correct.

And in spite of all that it is still one of the greatest open world RPGs of all time.

The battle is both temporal and spiritual brothers. Si vis pacem, para bellum.