Well, no. Even by the most conservatively estimated study, there are a minimum of 60,000 defensive gun uses in the US each year. Up to 2.5 million per year on the high end.

There are around 40,000 deaths from all unintentional falls per year. Of those, 85% are aged 65 and older.

You’re more likely to use a gun in self-defense than you are to trip and die. Especially if you’re not geriatric. So you’re wrong immediately there.

And yes, owning a gun makes it more statistically likely for someone to die by a gun. That’s because nearly 100% of gun suicides were the owner of said gun. Suicide is a leading cause of death in the US. That’s pretty irrelevant to anyone not suicidal.

Like they say, there’s three kids of lies. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

They replace rings when they get full.

But each winning team typically gets 52 names to put on.

He was absolutely confirmed to be in Afghanistan until the battle of Tora Bora, when he fled to Pakistan.

He didn’t buy the towers. He leased them. Port Authority of NY and NJ owned the entire complex.

And he ended up getting $4.55 Billion from insurance, while the rebuild of the complex cost much more than that.

One WTC cost $3.9B alone. 7 WTC was another $700M. Total complex rebuild was $26B.

He ended up personally losing over a billion dollars on the complex after the attacks and rebuild.

Not sure what rando YouTube source you have that gets extremely basic facts wrong.

The common one is that he took out the insurance policy just a month before the attacks.

But that conveniently leaves out that he had only leased the WTC complex at the same time, and part of the contract on the lease was getting insurance on the buildings.

Well, Osama bin Laden publicly taking credit for the attack was a big part.

He was known to be in Afghanistan, known to be part of al-Qaeda, and the Taliban was known to be sheltering and supporting Al-Qaeda.

The Taliban was the internationally recognized government of Afghanistan, which isn’t they were never declared a terrorist organization. When they outright said they would not extradite bin Laden to the US and openly refused to shut down terrorist bases or extradite other terrorists, the US invaded.

Don’t let the clusterfuck of the politics around Iraq cloud the invasion of Afghanistan. That one was extremely straightforward. The government of Afghanistan harbored and sheltered bin Laden, who very publicly claimed credit for 9/11, and then refused to do anything about it afterward.

The first plane hit at 8:46 AM.

Yeah no shit he missed work. If he was at a dermatology appointment first thing in the morning he wouldn’t have been there for breakfast when the planes hit. And once the second plane hit at 9:03, nobody but firemen were going back into the towers.

Sealioning is the constant bad faith, feigning ignorance, asking for evidence of everything under the guise of “just asking questions”. Then ignoring any evidence presented and moving on to the next demand. Used to shut down discourse entirely.

Tankies are leftists that defend or deny the atrocities committed by authoritarian communist regimes like the Soviet Union or the CCP. It was first used to describe communists in Great Britain that defended the Soviet Union for using tanks to crush anti-communist revolutions.

It wasn’t “even allowing racism and stuff”. It was created pretty much solely to be a safe space for assholes.

Turns out that doesn’t keep the lights running.