Thats more how It looks every time these random acts of capitalism keeps happening.
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It's scary how quickly mass shootings stories pass nowadays.
- Thread starter Lant_War
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Yeah, you really gotta question the kind of person who buys ammunition like that. I remember when it first came out, I was thinking that's the kind of thing that just screams "I want to kill somebody". A regular bullet works just fine at making a threat go away, and doesn't demonstrate to the jury that you're a homicidal maniac."Freedoms Internally"
Only in America can you have this publicly available: It has been dubbed the 'last round you will ever need'
I say it all the time. If dozens of little kids getting slaughtered in school didn't change anything, nothing will.
additionally, it's scary how many shootings don't get reported because they fall outside of the managed news cycle or aren't as easy to report
10 people dying of a mass shooting is standard for Americans now. When the body count hits the 20's or involves kids, they'll pay attention. Politically motivated shootings would create a stir as well.
Well, we can't do anything about guns in this country, and paying attention didn't seem to help...
Maybe not paying attention will work!
Maybe not paying attention will work!
Slowly settling into that "we're doomed" mentality. The 2nd amendment ain't budging in the direction it needs to go.
Pretty much. It's possible to still care and simultaneously be aware of the reality of the situation
I think America is gradually approaching the point where the public feels there is something deviant and untrustworthy about any culture that DOESN'T have mass shootings. Like, what the hell is wrong with your people if no one takes a gun out and occasionally opens up on the public? That's a sign of normal, All-American, healthy virility. If your country doesn't have that... they must be sick in the head.
The death of the NRA wont stop anything. There is more than enough organizations willing to step up and take the reigns and people who donate to them are extremely serious about being able to keep their guns. If you want anything to happen you have to change the people which is something thats going to take a very long time, maybe even longer considering how numb people are starting to become. Nothing is impossible, but its starting to feel like it.
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There was a shooting here in Orlando while I'm on vacation in Disney. Two people dead and me and my family just shrugged for a second and moved on like it's nothing. It's sad how normalized it all is
As long as people of color live in the US conservative white people will fight to the death to keep their guns.
This country was founded on slavery and genocide enforced at the end of a gun barrel.
This country was founded on slavery and genocide enforced at the end of a gun barrel.
I have too agree. It sucks because you would have thought the coverage would have swayed enough of the public and people in power to be so against it as to actually do proactive stuff about it. Now people are just numb to it, they react in the moment and that's it.
I had this sorta thought yesterday, OP. It happened, BuzzFeed posted the names, I did a quiz and found out I'm blueberry pie.
The realization was unsettling. The quiz was not satisfying.
The realization was unsettling. The quiz was not satisfying.
It's by design. The media machine is always working. Plus the powers that be has desensitized Americans to mass shootings and violence.
Didn't a nutcase shoot up a bunch of Congressmen at some charity baseball game a few years back? Some of them were even GOP members…
I'm pretty sure they were all GOP members, with one Republican congressman being hospitalized. Gun rights are too powerful of a political tool for them to abandon, even if the violence is directed at them.
It really is scary. Less than 2 years ago was the Vegas incident, 59 people killed and 851 people injured. Feels like so long ago now.... it's sad.
After Sandy Hook came and went, I honestly just started avoiding these threads and news articles. Even discussing it or voicing my frustration feels empty. If this shit feels hopeless even to people who actually live in the US...
Columbine was all that was being discussed in the news for weeks, even here. To think that things would only get worse from there.
Columbine was all that was being discussed in the news for weeks, even here. To think that things would only get worse from there.
This is crass but don't mass shooting avarage out at about 1 a day in America.
It feels like there is one major one everyweek. Untill they become rare it would be hard to keep up if you focused on just one on a forum that moves so fast.
I was in high school when Columbine happened and even then I knew it would never matter. Seemed like the media cared more about those two loser trenchcoat dipshits than than the victims or how to prevent something like it happening again. Same with VA tech and on and on. Now we don't even hear much about the murderers but we don't here anything else either.
The gun problem will never be solved.
The gun problem will never be solved.
I've been watching the Purge movie series recently, and that movie might have the right solution for America. Stopping the violence is clearly not possible, so might as well go full freedom once a year.
Like other people have said, Sandy Hook was the make-or-break point. If you couldn't get Republicans to care about a shooting where the victims were middle class white children, they will never care. Republicans and the NRA are right-wing cults built on death and exploitation.
At this point I'm just wondering when it will be my turn. When I'm the "someone else" it happens to.
At this point I'm just wondering when it will be my turn. When I'm the "someone else" it happens to.
Sad but true. I'd like to visit the US one day but safely would be a concern.
WHAT"Freedoms Internally"
Only in America can you have this publicly available: It has been dubbed the 'last round you will ever need'
THE
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Dead kids are bad, but me losing the right to own rootie tootie point 'n' shooties is much, much worse.
It happens so often now and there seems to be so little motivation to change anything - That I just blank it out now whenever I hear about it
It happens *shrug shoulders*
I'll stay in my safe little corner of the world instead
It happens *shrug shoulders*
I'll stay in my safe little corner of the world instead
Listen, my boom-boom bangaroos just aren't as much fun if they aren't designed for maximum lethality. I won't shoot any bullet that doesn't have at least a +75% bleed damage buff."Freedoms Internally"
Only in America can you have this publicly available: It has been dubbed the 'last round you will ever need'
Maybe if people who DON'T like mass shootings would just shut up, it would be easier for me to enjoy my blip blap rapadap wing zingers.
I'll ask you to please not criticize the blim-blam thank you ma'ams that I am CONSTITUTIONALLY ENTITLED to enjoy with no gees, goshes, or darns given.
When it comes to mass shootings, 10 dead Americans is barely a blip on the radar. Especially when there's no juicy political/social issue behind this one.
They clearly aren't interesting in doing anything about it, so why bother discussing it? It's not like anything is going to be said this time that hasn't been said the last 20 times it happened.
They clearly aren't interesting in doing anything about it, so why bother discussing it? It's not like anything is going to be said this time that hasn't been said the last 20 times it happened.
This reminds me of the time doctors were told to stay out of the gun control debate, as if they're not the ones who regularly have to deal with the outcome of lax gunlaws"Freedoms Internally"
Only in America can you have this publicly available: It has been dubbed the 'last round you will ever need'