| > How can you be shocked that in a world where a shooting might not make the news Recent increases in gun deaths are primarily driven by poor city neighborhoods that already had a long history of gun violence, so, if you don't live there, why would you be so afraid of gun violence as to avoid having children now compared to 10 or 20 years ago? https://www.brookings.edu/2022/04/21/mapping-gun-violence-a-... Note that Brookings institute is a solid left think-tank. I completely disagree with most of their conclusions and much of their analyses, but they tend to do a good job in collecting data and are at least more honest than most politically-biased organizations. > Our politicians don't hide their corruption They don't need to, because most people just keep voting for them anyways. If they are willing to do that, why would corruption stop them from having kids? > and you know, the climate crisis that we've seen coming and still choose to do nothing. People have been claiming climate crises nigh on a century, and they've been wrong. Every. Single. Time. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-e... We have a climate problem, not a climate crisis. I suggest you read or watch some Bjorn Lomberg. What's the point of all this? A bad doctor, seeing symptoms, diagnoses the wrong illness, prescribes the wrong treatment, and makes the patient sicker than before. Birth rates are on the decline, but it's not because of gun violence or existential climate threats, although it could be in part due to the false perceptions people have on these issues from listening to dishonest media corporations, school teachers, university professors, and celebrities. |
Probably because of school shootings having become commonplace even in "regular" neighbourhoods. Wikipedia lists 102 "incidents" in two years.