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- usa@midwest.social
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“let’s get back to talking about how gay books in the library are ruining our kids’ lives!!”
-GOP
What they need to do is make guns gay, then watch how quick they’re banned.
“If only there were 50 more guns for everyone to whip out at the same time with no way of knowing who the shooter is in the sea of guns, that’ll be safer!”
I think I’ve read a story or two about the “anti-shooter” getting shot for being at a massacre with a weapon drawn, like some kind of murderer.
Drawing a weapon in public seems insane to me. Even if you are the “good guy with a gun” in the eyes of everyone else, you are a potential murderer.
Thats always the thing about gun folk who won’t go to the mailbox without their weapon, right? However they justify it, its inherently this fantasy that they’ll get to shoot somebody. If you’re worried about being prepared, why not a police stick thing, mace, or a tazer maybe? Why does it HAVE to be the hyper lethal super easily reloaded thing or bust?
In that vein, these are all things cops carry on them too, why do they NEVER use them and go straight for emptying a clip instead of practicing escalation of force?
The answer? Murder boners. In both cases, its all just a power fantasy of getting to end a life without facing consequences. Sure, a taser will probably make most people drop a gun, but then you dont have the satisfaction of feeling that ultimate power of control over someone else’s life.
Fuck this is the way I learn there’s been a school shooting!
Pretty sure there’s a school shooting in the US nearly every day now… We only hear about them during election season
It’s only about one per week, if you average it out over the whole year, including when there is no school.
2022 had 51: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2022/01If you are just talking about “mass shooting” events, it’s closer to 2 events per day in the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2023#ListThere is a mass shooting everyday (on average), school shootings are a bit less often.
As a non-American, can I just say: get your shit together and ban guns as you clearly can’t be trusted with them as a country.
Fully expecting to get downvoted by the “but it’s mah hobby” brigade. Get a new hobby, there’s peoples lives at stake.
America has a gun problem but it also has a fear problem.
And a big racism problem.
We’ve been arguing about this in the US for my whole life, and I’m not young. At this point it should be obvious neither of the two faces of our government has any interest in doing anything more about guns than using the topic as a wedge to divide us and as a source of campaign funding. So you want to ban guns. Is that the hill you want your children to die on? How about instead of insisting that’s the only way, we enact a solution that keeps kids alive and that both the red and blue team can agree on, like, say, mandatory armed guards (a paid job, not volunteers) at school entrances. Is it in conflict with our ideal vision of a peaceful society? Maybe, but it works. Other countries have done it and it stopped school shootings entirely.
I think the two-party system you’ve got there has got you by the balls. No offence.
No offence taken. You’re right. And one of the few things the two parties cooperate on is working to insure it never changes.
Our two party, first past the post system is fucking awful.
That would never happen because whichever party does it, they can kiss goodbye to victory forever.
Then all parties can do it.
NRA: If only enough 14 year olds were armed, this could have been prevented…
I’m Georgia they can be.
Hi Georgia, I’m Dead
And the teachers
Not literally 14 yo though.
School shooters still thinking they’re going to become as infamous as Columbine. They’re just getting added to the huge pile of names.
Nobody will remember you.
Locally they will very much be remembered.
This might be the most evergreen article The Onion has ever published.
> be me
> doom scrolling international news on my death bed in 2064
> this article shows up
> goodbye my old friendIt’s depressing that this will likely be true in 2064.
This is the 37th time they’ve had to use this headline. I’m not sure if the repetition makes me more sad, or angry, or if it is now simply becoming numbing. Thirty-Seven. :-(
If you take away my unfettered access to guns, how will I support the government when they trample the rights of people I don’t like? /s
Can’t believe it’s over ten years since John Oliver’s Gun Control Trilogy
It says there are no videos in the playlist. They have been removed? Where can I still watch them?
It says there are no videos in the playlist.
The videos are there for me. Maybe you’re in a region where they’re blocked?
I’ll try with a VPN, thanks
repeal the 2nd
It’s “funny” that there’s conspiracy theories that these are all liberal psyops to force gun control. Surely the deep state would realize by now that no amount of dead children will change people’s minds.
Honestly the fact we have enough of these to be able to make distinctions is even more depressing.