80
Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed
(www.bbc.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2026
80 points (100.0% liked)
World News
2056 readers
1054 users here now
Rules:
Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.
Other Great Communities:
Rules
Be excellent to each other
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Assuming that people are magically different is delusional.
The USA is massive... literally a good chunk of the Western Europe fits into Texas.
Uhh what? We have EVs here, trump is trying his best to snuff them out but that's not happening.
Australia....had forced buyback in the 90s after the port shooting....60% turn in rate, 1mil owned arms by civs...today 3+Mil firearms owned by citizens in Australia...so did it really work? Or did society get less violent because of the education and safety nets that Australia has?
Yea...and that's not a ban?
This is not just a USA problem. Kids are getting dumber everywhere because of tech.
?????
Seems more like you're just projecting...
Not the point I know but:
No the buyback wasn't actually that effective as you noted, crime was already declining before the ban and as you noted number of guns increased since. Similarly in the US gun ownership (both % of gun owners and # of guns) have increased and violent crime of all kinds have decreased in the US in the same time. I "blame" surveillance states and probably stuff like taking the lead out of gas, personally. Also the same style buyback in the US would be monumentally expensive, not effective because of resistance, and not effective because of lack of social safety nets (listed separately on purpose.)