If you don't want to be an outlier, then that means you would have to kill yourself a 100 times before hitting a bad guy.
The presence of guns is more likely to result in violence then they are to deter it. Again I know you dont care about stats (IE reality) but Im just going to continue picking at just how utterly wrong you are on this issue.
I don't know man, in a thread about a mass shooting, sarcasm can fly over our heads considering the serious nature of it all.
The fact of the matter is given the fickle nature of mental health, having access to a gun increases the likelihood of it being used nefariously. You remove the gun as a variable, and you are likely to survive and live a fulfilling life.
True although, on the other hand, the day we get a thread about the US doing something to ban guns then I'm sure it will move fast af.
We've had several industrial wars where PTSD was hardly treated, or not even recognised, yet mass shooting was never a common outcome. You get increase in domestic violence, sucide, substance abuse, but not waves of mass shootings.
Given the reports of past sexual misconduct, I'm now about 95% certain that the guy's gonna turn out to have been some kind of incel or something along those lines.
Absolutely not, places outside of here always look much worse imo.
I grew up listening to throw away news segments on the radio about murders and wars over there. Bombings, and all the that mixed in with the morning weather. Now it's acid attacks, suicide bombers and people plowing people with cars.
We also have Facts and numbers on our side, but that's alright. Not dissing Americans per say, just your government and flawed democracy
Depends on what is greatest. It is the biggest economy abd has the biggest military. So yeah they are the most powerful country.
I don't like my government either but they have zero noticeable impact on my day to day.
I have a harder and harder time reading and posting in these threads because they are so thoroughly depressing and happen so frequently. I did what I could this week and helped kick out a Republican congressman, replaced him with someone who promises to take action on our gun problem, but the issue is so huge it's completely overwhelming at this point.
I feel like the US is now comparable to the Middle East. The worst part about this is that it would be far easier to fix the US compared to the Middle East if the people in charge tried atleast.
I've reached the point where I can't immediately tell any more if they're new mass-shootings or if it's a previous week's thread being bumped. Similar confusion takes place with police misconduct. Their frequency just makes 'em blend together, and the people in power aren't going to do anything about it anyway. I don't want to become numb to it, but I can tell it it's happening. Feels bad.
No, they happened, you just didn't hear about them as often -- or rather, people were even more numb back then. In fact, gun violence is way down from the 1970s. Workplace rage was so common the term "going postal" was coined because the USPS alone had 11 mass shootings in a decade. Guns were ALWAYS a problem in this country.
Are we pretending these happen everyday now ? There are more victims of gun homicides in 3 regular days in the USA than there were victims of the November 2015 attacks in Paris (by far the deadliest attack in Western Europe in 10+ years).
Yeah and I'm saying I rather take my chances here then ever live in any of those places.
