We have always been omnivores. And we didn't always know when fruits or veggies were safe. Someone tried it, lived or died, then told everyone else. I thought this was common knowledge but now schools are focused on dumbing kids down and propogandizing kids so they are easier to manipulate and control. Dumb people make stupid decisions based on emotions which are almost always bad decisions. If you can't look at the facts because it hurts the feelz, then there will never be any real solutions. Like defund the police. People were told cops are racist and killing black people a lot. So the simple school of thought is Cops bad - > No cops is good = utopia. What actually happened is crime skyrocketed because the da's won't charge people, so no consequences for crime so way more crime, cops give up cause tired of risking lives for literally no reason and now it's open season on innocent people. So they have no choice but to protect themselves.... Oh wait, the same people who got rid of the cops also made super strict gun laws so no one can have a firearm or protect themselves.... Except the criminals, they have all the guns and its like fish in a barrel, everyone is game, so even more crime and victims. So at that point you would think people would go "hmm, maybe something else is going on here, let's look at the stats, only 9 unarmed black people killed by police is 2019?!?! 7 were justified?!?! What have we done!?! Black people make up 13% of the US population yet to 50% of violent crime?!?! Oh.... Maybe it's not a race thing, maybe it's more complicated than they allowed me to think".... But instead we got "WE NEED TO BAN MORE GUNS!! WE NEED TO LIMIT LEGAL AND LAWABIDING CITIZENS ACCESS TO GUNS EVEN MORE!! THAT WILL FIX THIS!!"..... Good grief. Gun control doesn't work, it just creates more victims and more crime. All the high crime cities in America also have strict gun control. It just doesn't work, it only limits good people who don't break the law, it does nothing to stop crime. And if you think it will end mass shootings, you are dumb. The FBI failed to deny background checks for most of the mass shooters, they had mental illness on their records which is an instant fail yet somehow the FBI just let it go. Most mass shooters use handguns anyway, just like most criminals. If people wanted to be smart, they would look at those stats as well. On average, 38k gun deaths a year, 65% suicides, 0.18% mass shootings and the rest are homicides so like 15k, 2500 of those are domestic violence, the rest is gang related with illegal firearms and the mass shooters usually are on a psychotropic antidepressant. There are more than twice as many fatal car accidents than gun murders in America. And most of those murders come from cities with strict gun control. Drugs, alcohol, suicides, obesity, the crazy high amount of people on anti depressants, we have a serious need for mental health help in this country. The CDC did a study of defensive uses of firearms every year ( I. E. Lives saved with guns by citizens) and found that there were up to 2.4 MILLION defensive uses of a firearm in a year, 80% didn't even have to shoot.

I apologize for ranting, and I am not trying to call anyone dumb here, and this isnt directed at the OP either. I'm just so sick and tired of being lied to, gaslit, used and abused, and manipulated for corrupt politicians agenda for power and money. When are we all going to wake up and realized we are being played against each other so the people power can laugh at us while taking away our freedom and opportunity? If we worked together we could actually get real change. Maybe one day, hopefully sokn because we are quickly getting to "too late".