And suicide by gun was already dropping by 1987, though there were some state level laws passed. But firearm suicides were essentially replaced with hangings. So no, you won't save lives just by banning a tool or method. You must get rid of the actual source.

And straight from the horses mouth: The percentage of murders using firearms spiked in 1996 and the promptly when down back to where it was before. The percentage did lower further, but even then the homicide rate didn't follow the trend

I've gathered the important info into something easier for you to ignore. Murder victims, rates, and number killed by firearms from 1993 to 2003. Firearms were always a minority method of murder in Australia. More people are killed with knives or no weapon at all

We can assume ablut 800 draths from those mass shooting and not be that far off. Here's the CDC data on firearm related homicidea from 2018-2023. That's about 4% of total shooting deaths.

Here's the breakdown of deaths by ages from 1-18 from the CDC. Most of the deaths are older teens and far exceed the deaths in schools. Most of themat is gang and crime related violence. These are not school shootings. This is street violence.

But let's dive into the numbers so you can see that you hold on to lies as your security blanket. It's not that hard, if you actually want to know actual facts than convenient lies, to look up how many children die at schools. The internet is right there.
nces.ed.gov/programs/coe...

Did you forget 90% of the world exists? Are you dense or is it just convenient to keep your world view intact?

No, and they still kill more minors in accidents than guns do in murders. So their sacrifice is worth your commute to work right? That's how the logic goes.

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This is why discourse online sucks. People can't handle opposing views. Yes, guns come from the US. But "90% of guns traced by the ATF come from the US" is purposely misleading, and it's clear guns don't cause violence. Violence comes from violent culture

Gun homicides are similarly misleading. In those countries more of their homicides happen without guns. It's like calling "gun deaths" gun violence: in the US that will include most suicides but exclude most suicides in other countries.
Guns also don't correlate with homicides in general

No, but Penny didn't intend to kill him like you might want to think to justify your moral crusade. And he wasn't merely "calling for help". He was acting erratically. What is someone, with no knowledge of Neely's situation and past, supposed to think when he's causing fear on the subway?

Seemingly C# versions of built in Godot functions don't work properly in the Animation Tree's Advance Expression. There's no parse error, but the transition doesn't trigger like it should. But when calling the GD Script function it works.

Latest update was adding pick ups and a blaster. Eventually the blaster will just be part of a category of usable items, but this was a convenient script to take from one of my other projects and modify

Next was to add some visuals and a bit more level, as well as playing animations. I also used a shader to add noise to level geo to make it possible to tell the platform you're on apart from the one below you

Platformer game dev progression over the past week
First was character and camera movement. There's no limits on vertical camera orbit right now but that will come later with polish

Except those gun zones aren't significantly more dangerous than California with its A from Giffords. Even then, despite having a higher firearm homicide rate than California in 2022, Wisconsin had a lower overall homicide rate.

Is someone really trans if they don't have gender dysphoria and are fine with their bodies?