This makes me incredibly sad. We can’t have shit in this country due to pathetic and incompetent governance. What’s worse is that it will take a generation of time for us to dig out of this hole even if we start moving 100% in the right direction, today. It makes me sick.
Taking our heads out of the sand is a start. I would go into more detail but I checked your profile and I don’t think I’ll convince you of anything so we will just leave it here. Not in the mood for an argument over the same shit that keeps happening in this country.
It’s sad that you think you can’t discuss anything because of your prejudice against what you imagine the other person is like. Just be brave and say what you want anyway. Snooping at people’s profiles is a level of investment in this whole endeavor that I’ve never found worthwhile, so I don’t recommend it.
No, you failed to comprehend what I wrote actually. The point was that I don’t give a fuck what you or anybody’s comment history has in it. You can look at mine all day long and I don’t give a fuck either. The point being, that only lame nerds waste their time doing that.
I’m proud of my comments, please read and examine every one of them if you want. I personally choose not to waste my time on that lame bullshit though because I’m a cool dude with better things to do.
Once this is reported to be gang violence no one will give a shit. No one is in custody, handgun was used probably, and beef between two gangs happening during a parade.
No gun laws are going to stop shit like this, you have to solve societies problems, then violence will drop. Gun laws are just feel good measures for people in white picket fence communities.
Mate, I spend half my time on lemmy arguing with pro gun idiots that make the point that the guy above made but for real. Now it’s not only idiot rednecks but also lefties that need to defend themselves from nazis or wathever someone was trying to convince me about the other day. Excuse me if it wasn’t obvious to me that want sarcasm, from outside the US this whole situation is surreal
With the extremely limited info available, it could also be two people who were wildly shooting at each other in a crowd. It would not be the first time that some stupid beef between people at a celebration escalates into a gun battle that takes out more bystanders than participants.
I don't know what's a more effective argument for gun control: That this was two idiots with beef firing off in a crowded place, or that it was some maniac with a racist manifesto.
The only way Republicans would consider gun control is if the mass shooting was done by Taylor Swift and Joe Biden whilst holding hands and wearing pride flag t-shirts…
I’m convinced that if Dems came out and said, “we think ownership of the AR15 and any replica thereof is a human right!” then Republicans in their classic Anti-Dem platform would pivot to advocacy for a nation-wide ban.
They should start using reverse psychology on them. “Ukraine needs to be destroyed by Russia! Health care should remain private! Universal basic income is a terrible idea!”
We don’t need gun control. We need to remove the government regulation that prevents civil law suits against gun manufacturers. No reason they should get that special privilege.
That’s why we need to focus on the why it happens, not what tool is used.
We need safety nets for people, single payer healthcare, ending the war on drugs and rebuilding our mental health support system. Ending for profit prisons and creating ubi so people don’t turn to crime when they see no other ways to survive. Rebuilding our education system as well, pay teachers more build more schools and hire more teachers, so we don’t have 40 kids to a single class room. There is so much we can do that wouldn’t need to even have new laws on the books that would curb all violence 1000xs what another awb would accomplish.
A gun store near me, here in southern California, has a picture of Reagan on the wall. Standing under that picture I listened to an employee explain to a man in a wheel chair that the recoil from a Desert Eagle would push him backwards across the room.
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