Thursday 23 June 2022

America Lacking Grown Up's

Stephen Fry has a brilliant description for America, he describes it as like the country you would get if there were no parents home which in many ways is true, Britain was its parent ready to guide it through those difficult first few hundred years but the young America threw a hissy fit and the Brit's said: 'pfft...you're on your own sunshine’ and buggered off to lavish its love on Canada instead.
Fast forward a few centuries and two stories in today's newspaper summed our former colony up perfectly.

Story 1: A vaping company has been blocked from selling e-cigarettes in the US after it was found to have played a 'disproportionate role in the rise of youth vaping' and showed a 'lack of sufficient evidence' that the products provided a net benefit to public health.
Story 2: The US Supreme Court has passed a significant new ruling for gun rights that people have the right to carry a gun outside their home.

Vaping, which to my knowledge has killed 0 in America is more of a threat to America's youth than Gun's which kills around 45,000 people in America each year and that's the decision made while they are still digging the bullets out of the classroom wall in Texas after 19 youths were killed in May.
Since that horrific day, there have been gun killings in 43 of the 50 US states resulting in 730 deaths, 23 of them children, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive
So vaping BANNED to protect the youth while guns...yep, if ever a nation needed a grown up.

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