Entirely true, US shootings don’t make the news here unless it’s either a school or sets a new record for victims.
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100 bucks says it was(another) a white male between the ages of 19 and 35 doing the shooting
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Slow clap… I am pretty sure the relevant weapons are swaddling in protective layers of congresscritters and senatroids whose ballistic three piece suits are reinforced with extra extra cash (some of it from motherf’ing russia).
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Well no wonder you’re unaware that we’re the greatest, safest, free-est country in the world!
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Maybe Trump is right. We need to build a wall to keep the world safe from Americans.
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Mexico might pay for that…China certainly would chip in a few billion
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Imagine being the writer at the Onion whose job it is to fill out that boilerplate and repost it every time there is another mass shooting. Imagine that its up to you to decide just how many people have to be shot, and weigh it against how recent it’s been since the story was reposted, to justify a rewrite.
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I’m for drug legalization and major police reform, but neither messed up drug laws or over-aggressive policing makes it the officers’ fault that they were shot.
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Thank you for posting all 3,538 tweets related to the subject. I am really dim and I don’t understand simple sentences unless they are repeated hundreds of time from different twitter users.
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Twitterbation will make you go blind.
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Other places in the world do have headlines like this all the time, including Mexico, which has a nearly complete gun ban. Meanwhile, Iceland is flooded with guns and has almost zero murder rate, although it does suffer the world’s highest rate of malicious nithing. The world is a confusing place.
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Could any of our massive numbers of pointless murders have to with hatred being expressed and taught throughout our society. Would it matter if we simply expressed our gratitude and values toward others around us. Would we be a different nation if we weren’t so fixated on being biggest and baddest? When the DSM 5R comes out I trust we will view Trumpism as the severe mental illness it represents. Grant monies must flood in to address this. There must be a cure other than common sense and elimination of the NRA.
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I don’t know why but this cartoon and the truth it represents pisses me beyond words. Fuck the dead innocents But god spare the white money mongers
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It is odd that I feel a related dour solemnity for my US military that are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan for those LEO fighting the war on drugs in the USA.
I know that they each have a job, and I want to think that they are acting out of duty. But I don’t believe that about our leaders any longer. I wish that we had another path so that these hails of bullets over narcotics can cease.
Having read your opinions on a few topics, I am going to ask right now that you refrain from engaging with me in any way. This includes replies, likes quotes and using the @ function to address me.
This is a big board. I am sure you can find someone else to talk to.
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Come on, don’t be coy. Why do you think Mexico has gun violence with a nearly complete gun ban while the opposite is the case in Iceland?
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Related news today about this scumbag org:
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Yeah, things that happen every day aren’t news. The vast majority of mass shootings never make national news in the US. The death toll in this case was particularly low even for the mass shootings this week, so the only way it even remotely qualifies as news is because cops got shot. (Which rather puts the lie to the idea that cops are always getting shot. When multiple cops get shot, it’s suddenly news. When many times more non-cops get shot, it isn’t.)
A mystery, I’m sure. Although I’d hazard that those statements not actually being true might have something to do with it… Mexico doesn’t have a gun ban (and, thanks to corruption, is pretty relaxed about enforcing the laws they do have) - in fact citizens have a constitutional right to have guns - whereas guns are strictly regulated in Iceland, what people mostly own there are hunting rifles, semi-automatic rifles are banned and handguns extremely difficult to get. (Also, guess which country has a strong social safety net…)
But oh dear, I missed out on what the “real” answer to the question is.
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The USA is the empirical proof that if you do nothing to solve a problem things will stay the same.
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