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dublinben · 553 days ago · link · · parent · post: "The U.S. is the only place among peer nations where firearms are the No. 1 cause of death in young people."
Until you try to suggest even modest reforms that might challenge either of them, and suddenly they're unassailable pillars of our culture, immune from any criticism. The racists might not be lining up to buy cars, but the car-dependent suburbs they live in are founded on racism, and they seem to struggle to come up with non-racist defenses of that status quo.no fucking parallel between automobiles and guns