Do you think this is true?

[goaded]

United States, obviously.

[MisterWack]

My opinion didn’t send, refreshed and erased.

3k billionaires, we lost 180+ American schoolchildren specifically to mass shooting deaths, the user like some people have resentment towards politicians not getting things done to prevent innocent children from dying at the hands of cold blooded criminals and also that billionaires influence our lives, a lot of people share the sentiment 37.6k likes demonstrates. Not factually accurate, but there are real issues and real concerns and something needs to get done now to save lives.

[goaded]

There's only about 980 US billionaires, and murdered school children aren't all killed in mass shootings. But, yes, there is finally an air of starting to look up at who's killing people for money.

Not a bad thing.

[MisterWack]

@goaded Since they didn’t specifically say American billionaires, felt I would go by world stats except American school victims since America has the highest mass shooting deaths by far than any other nation. It is good people look up who dies and at what cost, since that goes for every piece of action not just mass shooting deaths. The War On Terror, War On Drugs, etc.

[Zack-Bann]

I think there’s nothing more childish and narrow minded than hating on successful people for their success. Earned or not.


The passive aggressive suggestion that billionaires are somehow “fair game” is not clever and just exposes a personal insecurity


Just like the people defending Luigi Mangione as if he didn’t gun a man down in cold blood.
Regardless of how harmful that man might have been by denying insurance to certain people for different reasons.
Nothing warrants violence like this

[goaded]

How is it a "success", if it's not earned?

[Zack-Bann]

It’s earned by someone.

Maybe a great grandfather who hit it big hundreds of years ago and still feeds his bloodline centuries later.

My great grandfather was born into money and blew through it during his lifetime, leaving nothing to anyone else.
He’s the example of a “failure”

And me who had to earn every dime, if I make it big eventually I fully expect to give it to my children
Yes they will not have earned it as i did but I won’t accept anyone taking it away from them either

This notion that rich people are bad just for being rich no matter what they do is as I said narrow minded.

We all have different lots in life
Some better than others

Focusing on your own is the only way to get anything done.

Not sitting there pointing fingers and hating from outside the club

[goaded]

So your children successfully chose the right parents?

Just being rich doesn't mean you're a success, especially if you won or inherited it.

[Horsegirly2001]

Gang violence is very high in American cities. I remember seeing statistics that I was safer for a teen boy to be serving in the frontlines during the war in terror in Afghanistan or iraq than to live in cities like Atlanta, Chicago, detroit, L. A etc.

Weve a huge knife crime and rape gang problem here in the UK. Wasn't too long ago that 3 little girls were brutally stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift party.

[goaded]

While knife crime in the UK is bad, consider this little gem: the US has a higher per capita knife murder rate than the UK, and that's less than 25% of murders there.

[Horsegirly2001]

Exactly, its a major problem in the US. Litteraly safer to be fighting ISIS, alqueda, the taliban or the Iranians than to live in a US city.

[Agape93]

Dunno but I'd pay to watch

[NaultD]

I'm ignoring the whole question for legal purposes.

The American and French revolution was a thing for a reason. The only reason the great depression wasn't ending in blood shed was the federal throwing every dollar it could print to employee people. From the interstate highway to the hoover dam.

We are in a similar position but the highest class want to escape from the world in epstein island space travel. Very little room to maneuver around for everyday people to get by.

[AyChingao]

Last I heard there were something like 3k billionaires in the world, so... I think 2 months is unlikely. Maybe so id=f we do only US billionaires.

[goaded]

Worldwide, children aren't shot nearly as often as in the US. It's the leading cause of deaths for under 18s.

www.nejm.org/.../nejmc2600445_f1.jpg

In 2023, a total of 4455 children and adolescents died from firearm-related injuries
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2600445

Oh, so maybe a couple of months isn't far off.

[AyChingao]

Yeah, I'm in Texas and well aware of the stupidity of US gun violence, just wasn't aware the number was quite that high. I WAS aware of the statement on leading cause of death for under 18's. A quick search shows that the number fell to something like 1,200 in 2025, throw in the injured and the number jumps to 4400. Still the fact remains that gun law here is pure insanity with a side order of stupid. Another example of something we probably can't fix until campaign finance is fixed.

[exitseven]

It's true. There are not that many billionaires.

[goaded]

980 in the US.

[exitseven]

In democrat run cities there are probsbly more murders than that.

[Shiprex]

There would be another 3 following up on each one.

[Cidknee]

If murderers got shot as often perhaps there would be no more killers.

[goaded]

Well, that's a remarkably stupid comment. There would be the people who shot the murderers.

[Cidknee]

🖕💩
My thought for you.

[goaded]

So, none at all.

[Cidknee]

You are a big joke! Woo-hooo! 😅

No seriously, let's have a beer.

[Snakeyes7]

Sure, but I don't think extrajudicial killing is the answer or I at least oppose it morally.

[goaded]

Nor do I. But if it happened, I bet laws would change after a week.

[msc545]

Yeah, it's probably true. I'm not exactly sure, and I'd have to do the math to check, but it sounds right.

[lightbulb27]

it's false.

lets hope it is...

[goaded]

Only because there are nearly a thousand billionaires in the US.

[Still-alive]

I believe it.

[goaded]

Me too. If you search for "Shot - Dead" and "Child Involved Incident" for a year on https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/query/ it looks like about one a day. I guess some of them might be children shooting adults, but I doubt that's many.

[goaded]

Huh, turns out there are nearly a thousand billionaires in the US, so it would take three years. Things would probably change very quickly if one billionaire was shot every time a child was.

en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_countries_by_number_of_billionaires