I mean...I dunno. This seems a bit silly. And I’m a big girl.

This is outrageous. It gives Londoners a completely unrealistic expectation of beach weather.

Companies aren’t able to freely advertise anywhere, though. The ad-space seller–whether it’s a city transport service, a TV network, or a one-person blog–always makes decisions about what kind of advertisements they do and don’t want to attach to their services. There’s no obligation to give ad-space simply to the…

Yeah, I was thinking "what the fuck Japan, that's a lot of lightning."

Former freelance proofreader and copy editor here—try this: “Gun Homicides in Japan Are as Common as Lightning Deaths in the U.S.” Alas...

It wouldn’t surprise me. Guns are rare in Japan, with the only legal ones for regular folks being shotguns and air rifles. Even to get those, you have to go through this requirement:

It’s madenning - we can’t even talk about gun control on a legislative level without people losing their collective shit, but we’re fine with imposing more useless TSA regulations to prevent airline attacks, which are statistically far less likely to happen.

Yea, it is, but at first, I read that headline and my brain was just not computing, like wait are lightning strikes just realllllly common in Japan? My brain is broken today, no confusing headlines allowed.

I don’t know, maybe Japan should have more serious conversations about storm control.

I think few people support banning all guns. What most people want are more regulations. Sure that would mean banning certain types of guns but most people who wants a gun for hunting or protection could still get them. It would also mean preventing certain kinds of people from getting guns or confiscating them from…

I think its’ supposed to say “Gun deaths in Japan are as common as lightning deaths in the USA”

They clearly don’t know the basics of storm safety. Look at this lady!

It made me wonder what was up with Japan that so many people there die from lightning.

Right? My initial thought on reading that headline was “What the fuck are the Japanese doing to get hit by lightning so often?”

Well, it does make sense when you consider the frequent thunderstorms over there, plus the fact that the average Japanese person is about fifteen feet tall, and made of...uh, metal...

I swear it’s like the wild wild west here in the United States. Just last week, here in Atlanta last week the highway was shut down because some idiot was shooting at drivers on the highway. More than likely it was it road rage related, but still!! Who shoots cars on the highway?

Normally, I would respond with a sort of defense of gun rights and such, but I cannot anymore. Not today, not yesterday and not tomorrow.

“Gun deaths in the U.S. are occurring on average at a rate of 31 million a year, or 27 people every day.”

Did anyone even proofread this? The title is flat out wrong as is the 31 million deaths number.

There are 1.1 million days per year, apparently. There were about 33,000 gun-related deaths in the US in 2015, or about 9o per day. This includes suicides and accident/negligence as well as homocide.