I had three takeaways:
CNN deliberately conflates the emotion-ridden term "children" with the 15-18-year old set.
I do not. That age cohort is/has always been the onset of young adult status.
That age cohort has also always been the most prone to various forms of violence as part of "settling-in" as to their place in the social order
But until recently, widespread fatal violence as a means of that settling was rare.
The graphs display a near unbelievable asymptotic rise in fatal violence in just the last five years. That is not a gun problem, per se.
It is an emergent society come absolutely unstuck at the root level.
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The vital difference between correlation vs causation is ignored.
Deliberately so... since to recognize the terrible consequences from loss of a central cohesive culture ...
...is counter to the popular agenda.
.
CNN deliberately conflates the emotion-ridden term "children" with the 15-18-year old set.
I do not. That age cohort is/has always been the onset of young adult status.
That age cohort has also always been the most prone to various forms of violence as part of "settling-in" as to their place in the social order
But until recently, widespread fatal violence as a means of that settling was rare.
The graphs display a near unbelievable asymptotic rise in fatal violence in just the last five years. That is not a gun problem, per se.
It is an emergent society come absolutely unstuck at the root level.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The vital difference between correlation vs causation is ignored.
Deliberately so... since to recognize the terrible consequences from loss of a central cohesive culture ...
...is counter to the popular agenda.
.
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