• trafficnab@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Gun violence is very rare in Hong Kong, unlike in the United States where firearms are now the No. 1 killer of children and teens.

    O-okay, weird thing to randomly bring up (also not actually true if I remember right)

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      1 year ago

      Legally, you have to register that that car and renew annually. To drive that car in the road, you’d have to have a license that you acquired paying a competency test and possibly perform a driving test. You’d also have to have insurance while driving it in public.

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      1 year ago

      Not a weird thing to bring up at all. HK regulators are not likely to view this as the semi-serious faux pas that Americans, particularly his constituents, may believe it to be. Americans have a bizarre acceptance of firearms (compared to the rest of the developed world) and our consistent refusal to regulate them despite numerous atrocities is a big factor of how this incident could even have happened in the first place.

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        1 year ago

        This article has nothing to do with gun violence or children though, the random facts just come a bit out of left field