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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.
No they're not, most gang related violence here in the states is from 15-19 year olds. Which heavily skew the numbers.
Lol try again kid, I'm probably old enough to be your father.
Is that why they're allowed alcohol in most of Europe at that age?
Well considering that 2/3rds (%66~) of our deaths are suicides, then of the 34% left, 85% of those are gang/drug related, and then the last %15 covers police killings (on average 1k deaths a year from the police shooting someone) and then you have the few hundred murders a year from firearms that includes (mass shootings, robberies, muggings, random acts of violence). But you wouldn't know this because you're from a euro country who thinks guns magically make the usa the wild west and blood pours from the streets daily while roaming hordes or mass murders just walk around openly and execute people.
Yea you don't know what you're talking about.
Science agrees that counties that have social programs that support their citizens have less violence overall... Brazil still is waiting on your "gun control works"...
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.
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.
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:
###"... 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/
Although how would you ever read a book on the matter, when a page long summary gives you trouble.