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    “let’s get back to talking about how gay books in the library are ruining our kids’ lives!!”

    -GOP

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        Not too hard, the things are often phallic shaped and you gotta stroke its trigger to get it to release its load everywhere. Just saying.

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          Make all guns require the grip to be shaped like a cock so homophobes will refuse to hold them.

          Or even better, they come with a phallus-shaped mouthpiece attached that needs to be sucked on in order to allow the gun to fire…

          I can come up with these all day lol

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        What’s the internet rule that there is porn for everything you can think of? There has to be gun fetish gay porn. All sane Americans need to do is get whoever is more influential than Dan Savage to give the movement legs ala “Santorum”

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    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.

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      The reality of it is we know straight up banning guns is the only way to truly solve this problem. The issue is we like to pretend it is some super complex issue with all this nuance that can only be approached by the best and brightest, but the right people to put that policy together just haven’t come along yet. We tell ourselves that because the truth is we are totally okay with a certain amount of faceless death as long as we can have our toys and we don’t have to clean up the mess.

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      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.

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      And as an American, all i have to say is

      Sure, we will just march on up to the Capitol amidst all the lobbiers and gun obsessed GoP fascists and tell them, “Please stop, someone from lemmy who isn’t even American says that’s all we need to do.”

      If you aren’t American, keep your mouth shut on what we “should” do. Many, many of us are tired of these shootings, and on top of it all, our democracy is at stake, along with our ways of life to boot. Our country is failing, and all we can do is VOTE. It’s not that fucking easy. Stop accusing our entire country of this bullshit like we want it. The majority of us aren’t like this.

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    “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!”

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    NRA: If only enough 14 year olds were armed, this could have been prevented…

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    My opinions about guns have changed over the years. I used to be of the opinion that nobody should have guns in this day and age, what’s the point aside from ego boosting and sport.

    Then a cheeto puff did a treason on jan6.

    I’ll give up my guns only after the fascists give up theirs. Non negotiable.

    You want to “prevent tragedies”? fund programs for welfare and healthcare. Tax the rich. Break up megacorps like google, albertsons, nestle. Enact and enforce employee protections. Raise the minimum wage. Ban airbnb and heavily tax empty residences. Universal basic income! Did I mention fixing the healthcare system? More that I’m forgetting to list.

    Miserable parents make miserable kids, and miserable kids lash out. For the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet, this shouldn’t be hard to figure out.

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      … Nestlé…

      But surely it’s proper for one company to control the entire food supply. I mean you wouldn’t want to be a communist and not let the free market do as it wishes

      /s in case the italics and words aren’t enough

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        i have on occasion been accused of being a communist. Usually when I point out that people deserve rights.

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      also fire every single cop in the country and replace them all with people who actually believe that they’re supposed to protect and serve.

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        The problem is that all of those ex-cops would still exist and still be American citizens. They’d 100% create a far right militia, at the very least. No doubt about it.

        Unless we shipped them off to Russia or something.

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          it’s unhinged because of the implication of violence against a specific group of people identified by their political beliefs. And wouldn’t you know it, it’s that same group of people who are opposing all of the solutions I proposed in my previous comment.

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            You and I agree on this topic, I was just curious if the other commenter had anything intelligent to add or if they just instantly resort to insults because they can’t intelligently articulate their viewpoint.

            From you I didn’t see an implication of initiating violence so much as protecting against those whose political beliefs support violence against their out groups. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

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      That is such stupid logic. “Oh people want to violently overthrow the government? I want them to easily get guns” The fascists should be the exact reason you want to have strict gun control

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        It doesn’t work that way when they already all have guns. If you wanted to do it your way, you’d have needed to start on that gun control about 100 years ago.

        Because the cops are not going to take the fascists’ guns, even if they were outlawed. They are vastly outnumbered by armed citizens, and they are scared of them, and many of the cops are the same fascists too.

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      Pretty sure there’s a school shooting in the US nearly every day now… We only hear about them during election season

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        There is a mass shooting everyday (on average), school shootings are a bit less often.

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        How come there were none last week? Eh? Eh? Can’t answer me that one! Trick question! Everyone was out on vacation! But we did have one day without a shooting, the first day. I can’t imagine a situation where it takes two days to get someone angry enough to plan something like this though. It’s so sad and stupid that we let things like this happen.

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          Maybe if they had a bully grading system, they could pluck the bullies out into bully sweeting school. Just keep the nice kids. So kids would vote against kids they don’t like and the school would segregate them?.. that’s apartheid/segregation… let’s not do that.

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            A voting system would make it more likely a programme like that will be abused by bullies to further alienate their victims and place them in the ‘bully’ school.

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        There are (on average) around two mass shootings per day, but only (ugh) about one school shooting per week when you actually average it across the whole year. For instance, 2022 had 51 school shootings, but had 647 mass shootings total.

        The high number of mass shootings is because anything over 2 victims is considered a mass shooting. So when an abusive dad drunkenly shoots his wife and kids before committing suicide, it’s considered a mass shooting. Drive by gang shootings are frequently considered mass shootings if more than two people are hit. It’s not just an active shooter firing into a crowd, (though those definitely qualify.)

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      > be me
      > doom scrolling international news on my death bed in 2064
      > this article shows up
      > goodbye my old friend

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    The new face of violent radicalism in the United States: aggrieved, rural, white “Future Farmers of America” Trump kids raised by white, rural, aggrieved Trump parents that don’t keep their guns secure.

    Edit: yes, he was part of FFA. He was “member of the month” last month.

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        I couldn’t believe that they released his name like that. Totally out of line by whatever department decided to do that.

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          Yes it’s odd, given how just before this that football player was shot in San Francisco by a 17 year old. There was a big to-do about will he be tried as an adult and they won’t release his name because he’s a minor. In this case they released his name right away and said he would be tried as an adult even though he’s only 14.

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            I think that was a rouge “tough guy” who decided to do it. It’s not up to the police to decide how he gets tried.

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          don’t give him fame. don’t mention his name, don’t post his pic, try not to talk about numbers to turn it into a “high score”. he is anonymous

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            Absolutely. Adding infamy to this, or looking into their lives at all beyond the investigation only spurs on anyone who is on the edge for ruining their lives in exactly the same way. But… the media will always aim for the shocking headlines that get the views. Still. I’m with you.

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    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.

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    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.

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        Also, I don’t think being remembered is the main point. It seems to me to be more about a violent release of frustration and getting back at the people who “wronged” them, usually combined with suicide by cop.

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          Most mass shootings are family annihilations, which typically end in suicide, so I think you’re correct here.

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    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

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    Now I know emotions are all running high, and we’re all shocked and scared by yet another senseless act of violence (or mental illness if white, act of terror if brown). However, now is not the time to start talking about things like “gun control” and “approval lists.” How about we schedule sometime on March 31st around 7:30am EST and we can all sit down for 15 minutes and discuss ways to prevent the next tragedy. However I cannot stress it enough that NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO POLITICIZE THIS.

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      It’s telling that they even mention politicizing it. Like… why would something like that even need to be “political” at all, unless…?