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Mass Shooting and Gun Control Megathread

alasdairm said:
i don't have answers mal. it's an absolute tragedy and it turns my stomach to see people here and politicians say they're happy kids are dead and we just have to learn to live with this because nothing can be done.

i know all these incidents have at least one thing in common so it's not surprising people want to try to do something and start there...

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as I've said many times, unless you are willing to have another civil war to confiscate all the guns, we need to start focusing on the true problem at the core of our society. The hopelessness, boredom, and despair that many young people seem to struggle with. We need to move away from this obsession with identity as social currency. The narcissism is out of fucking control with these kids and it has everything to do with them growing up with a phone in their hand. Parents don't parent anymore, phones do. Teachers find ways to incorporate their worldview onto their students too, and between that and social media, all we have are mindless drones. A dozen "disorders" pinned on them by hack psychiatrists before the age of 20.
 
Dropperneck said:
Every. Single. One. is on ssris
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I don't think that is it. The vast majority of people who are on or who have taken SSRIs or SSNRIs do not hurt anyone or become violent. I think in a lot of cases the school shooters do it for various reasons: mental illness, revenge, being suicidal and wanting to die being killed by police or in prison, being psychopathic/sociopathic, hatred, narcissistic personality disorder, copying other shooters, etc.

Not BS excuses like "I don't like Mondays..." There were school shootings and mass shootings in the past, before Columbine, but these were before the internet and there was media coverage but it was before the 24/7 hack "journalism" of today in the Reeeeeeing 2020s where articles and TV news casts are more like blog rants, IDpol opinions, a leftist academic circle wank, supposed events or videos that go viral on social media, buzzwords/catch phrases in vogue-I once heard a newscaster for an ABC affiliate station owned by Disney say 'NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES!!1" and I am still laughing about it, fake news that is not even actually really verified or fact checked even though it easily could be, and TV ads than real news.

My friend wrote a book about this topic. Unfortunately it was not a best seller.
 
PriestTheyCalledHim said:
Despite what the Western leftist media, leftist academics, and leftist social media claim Christians worldwide are a minority and the most persecuted religion.

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www.cato.org
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The Cato institute is a captured organization. But it’s pretty obvious white Christian’s are the enemy in this maoist plot.
 
PriestTheyCalledHim said:
I don't think that is it. The vast majority of people who are on or who have taken SSRIs or SSNRIs do not hurt anyone or become violent. I think in a lot of cases the school shooters do it for various reasons: mental illness, revenge, being suicidal and wanting to die being killed by police or in prison, being psychopathic/sociopathic, hatred, narcissistic personality disorder, copying other shooters, etc.

Not BS excuses like "I don't like Mondays..." There were school shootings and mass shootings in the past, before Columbine, but these were before the internet and there was media coverage but it was before the 24/7 hack "journalism" of today in the Reeeeeeing 2020s where articles and TV news casts are more like blog rants, IDpol opinions, a leftist academic circle wank, supposed events or videos that go viral on social media, buzzwords/catch phrases in vogue-I once heard a newscaster for an ABC affiliate station owned by Disney say 'NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES!!1" and I am still laughing about it, fake news that is not even actually really verified or fact checked even though it easily could be, and TV ads than real news.

My friend wrote a book about this topic. Unfortunately it was not a best seller.
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There are definitely many more factors that go into it, but literally every shooter is on an ssri. It is a commonality too big to ignore imo
 
Fundraiser for the group that the Nashville shooter represents

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NPR: The Once Middle of the Road News Source Gone Wrong

This article fucking sickens me. Why in the hell would anyone need two smartphones? Two vehicles? Of fucking course there will be one smart phone/vehicle per person; no one needs two phones, and having more than one vehicle is an extremely costly luxury. Just because most firearm owners have multiple firearms does not make it abnormal nor abhorrent. I own several not counting parts that could be reassembled into different configurations; does that make me feel shame? Not in the least. For that matter if you both hunt and carry, you aren’t going to carry your hunting rifle/shotgun on your person, its isn’t concealable. Therefore, the average rural American owns at least three firearms by virtue of necessity. How is that shameful?

NPR disgusts me lately. I don’t know how much longer I can read/listen to them. They’re slanderous and pandering. They cater to the brainwashing establishment. It is repulsive.
 
Here’s some perspective on a problem from someone in a country where you can legally poses firearm BUT to be able to carry it you either need to be part of law apparatus, under serious danger or when you take it for a sport (either marksman or hunting). To even get a gun you need to pass medical exam, psychical evaluation and some background check. You can’t have felonies and even any small convictions can prevent you from getting it. And as for use, no even if you have it you can’t shoot someone for trespassing, hell even if someone breaks in you can’t use it if your life is in danger but neither the cops can shoot anyone just because he’s running away or in any case where their or someone else is in real life danger.

Is it strict, yes. Would be a lot more dead people if it isn’t so, yes. And no, people don’t just use knifes instead. You can’t carry big knifes either and in fact you could get in almost as or even more problems than when carrying a gun, there’s a technicality you can use to get by without problems with while carrying a firearm. Guns and weapons in general can be cool but all in all, being able to feel rather safe even in a dangerous neighborhood is even more cook.
My country is full of weapons left after war but we still don’t have mass shootings, ever! How’s that? Our kids are probably still a lot less fucked up than in USA. Up until recently there was no people transitioning, no ADHD and other Murica flavored shit.
 
Jerry Atrick said:
They call themselves pro life, but....

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It's a bit disingenuous to suggest such a polarized vote count is directly related to just that specific bill title though, right? I'm only vaguely familiar with the US system, but I assume within that bill there's some utter nonsense which is what the Repubs would be voting against and not just the bill as a whole which the post implies?
 
Cream Gravy? said:
NPR: The Once Middle of the Road News Source Gone Wrong

This article fucking sickens me. Why in the hell would anyone need two smartphones? Two vehicles? Of fucking course there will be one smart phone/vehicle per person; no one needs two phones, and having more than one vehicle is an extremely costly luxury. Just because most firearm owners have multiple firearms does not make it abnormal nor abhorrent. I own several not counting parts that could be reassembled into different configurations; does that make me feel shame? Not in the least. For that matter if you both hunt and carry, you aren’t going to carry your hunting rifle/shotgun on your person, its isn’t concealable. Therefore, the average rural American owns at least three firearms by virtue of necessity. How is that shameful?

NPR disgusts me lately. I don’t know how much longer I can read/listen to them. They’re slanderous and pandering. They cater to the brainwashing establishment. It is repulsive.
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I don't see what's so wrong wrong with the article. He's just stating numbers (of mass shooting this year). It is what it is. He's not saying we should take away your guns. Just that there is a problem.. I imagine you agree that there is a problem. I didn't see anywhere that there was a solution recommended, just that there is a problem...
 
Xorkoth said:
Just that there is a problem.. I imagine you agree that there is a problem. I didn't see anywhere that there was a solution recommended, just that there is a problem...
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No you’re right, it’s not any kind of call to arms, no pun intended.

I just mean the article title implying ‘shame’ for the fact that there are more firearms in the U.S. than there are certain other consumer goods which quite simply will not and should not ever outnumber firearms.

Perhaps it was the title that really just vexed me. This idea that firearm owners can be shamed into giving up their rights is really fricking silly and counterproductive to coming to a mutually agreed upon solution to the growing problem of homicidal youths.
 
-=SS=- said:
It's a bit disingenuous to suggest such a polarized vote count is directly related to just that specific bill title though, right? I'm only vaguely familiar with the US system, but I assume within that bill there's some utter nonsense which is what the Repubs would be voting against and not just the bill as a whole which the post implies?
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While you are correct that "utter nonsense" is normally their excuse, like why they refused to cap insulin at $35 per month, in reality repubs vote No based only on the fact that dems wrote the bill. Nothing more, nothing less. They are obstructionists and will burn the country to the ground before giving dems the satisfaction of writing a bill and getting it pushed through.
 
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