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    At least 22 dead and 60 wounded.

    To all of you out there who want no gun control. This blood is on your hands. Screw you and your 2nd amendment “rights.”

    Edit: 18 dead, 13 wounded

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      Still waiting for the good guy with a gun they keep repeating

      EDIT: OK everyone, yes he was the good guy with a gun. Thanks to everyone for pointing this out

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        Apparently, the shooter was a firearms instructor. Aka, good guy with a gun turned bad guy with a gun.

        This crap will never end until the tools they use to kill are off the streets.

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          Apparently, the shooter was a firearms instructor.

          Every gun owner thinks they’re a responsible gun owner.

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            Not my shocked face!!

            …Support for Trump, among other politicians. As shown by the video, Card liked tweets from high-profile conservative figures such as Donald Trump Jnr., Tucker Carlson, Dinesh D’Souza. He also engaged with publications from former house speakers Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan, as per the video.

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            Probably a “Look down the barrel to make sure there is no bullet in there” type.

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            I think that’s the same error in judgement that leads the vast majority of motorists to believe their driving skills are above average. Forgot what it’s called.

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          Which is the key problem. Everyone is a “responsible gun owner” and “good guy with a gun”… until sometimes they suddenly aren’t anymore. At which point your protection is what was person able to keep under normal circumstances aka what they had in their possession on the moment they had a mental snap.

          Was it a semi-auto shoot as fast as your finger pulls rifle with potentially hundreds of rounds in quick swap magazines or do they have a manual action hunting rifle or shotgun with fixed magazine, that need to be manually reloaded.

          Do they have a pistol with again potentially hundreds of rounds of quick reload ammunition or don’t or maybe a target pistol with fixed magazine.

          That is why places around the world have magazine and type restrictions, since they exactly know “checking backgrounds isn’t fool proof and now amount of background checking helps again sudden newly emerging situation after the checks have been done”.

          Sure that 5 round moose hunting rifle will absolutely wreck say those 5 people, but one can’t exactly run amock shooting around endlessly with moose rifle. Damage limitation. 5 dead people is better situation, than 22 dead people. As cold calculating as that is.

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            Everyone is a “responsible gun owner” and “good guy with a gun”… until sometimes they suddenly aren’t anymore.

            Yeah, and unpopular opinion likely but I think of this similarly to dogs turning on their owners.

            And similarly I’d rather have a Yorkshire terrier go crazy on me than a Pitbull.

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        This guy is exactly the kind of person that the GOP considers a “good guy with a gun”. He is a mentally ill veteran firearms instructor. Sounds like a boilerplate Trump supporter. Exactly who they want to have more guns.

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          It’s even worse, GOP would want this guy to be an elementary school teacher as a “solution” to the school shootings. Broken, selfish, heartless cowards

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            Mass shootings themselves are a rounding number, rounding numbers are what we’re discussing. Also helps that they almost always choose gun free zones “for no reason” instead of “gun guaranteed zones.” Almost like they don’t want armed people shooting at them.

            And one or two, but just because the cops make an error, doesn’t mean the person was wrong to save all those people. That’s also why you’re told to put the gun away once you’ve secured the situation, and you’re supposed to give a visual description of the shooter when you call it in. You really think it’s better to just let people cause whatever harm they want to than for them to stop the violent attacker? Even if it’s just a guy with a knife who can “only kill less people than a guy with a gun,” “if it even stops just one” right?

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        There was a study published from data from the last like… 10 years, I believe, that show that people with guns are more likely to run away, and people WITHOUT guns, are more likely to jump in and try to stop the shooter.

        So ya. These good guys with guns are just pussies that never actually use them for good.

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            Ya. I live in Canada, and I’ve never felt the need to own a gun. We have a TON of hunting guns here, but I think the fact we don’t allow open carry, changes the thought process of gun owners here, and we don’t see them as weapons to point at other people. They are more so seen as a tool for a hobby, like a fishing rod is used for fishing.

            And honestly, if you avoid Toronto, violence in general is really low. Toronto is just… special.

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          That might be because people who own guns have had training in how not to get killed.

          I’m not sure that saying gun owners should be quicker to shoot people is the right direction.

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        Maybe be the change you want to see in the world instead of bitching, then.

        edit: go ahead and keep downvoting me, when the right does finally manage a coup they’ll be the only ones with any guns you stupid motherfuckers. For now, the 2nd amendment is your right – you want to forgo it until they take it away from you (and only you), be my guest.

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          I’m pro-gun but anti-2A precisely because of fuckers like you who insist we can’t do anything about this stuff because 2A so we just have to live with mass shootings.

          Nope if 2A is standing in the way of sensible regulation, then get rid of it. Then I’ll fight for reasonable laws around gun ownership. 2A is the problem.

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            Bingo, license (no test just who you are where you live like a DL) register (every firearm) and own a fucking tank of you want, I don’t care. The biggest issue is you can pretty easily get ahold of one without anyone knowing you have one so the thought someone could get away is much more pervasive.

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              Not from the US but isn’t it like that US Citizens do not have to register their current place of living? If true I think they could get a grip of the gun madness by fixing that problem.

              They could couple permission for buying guns and ammo to have the buyer have a registered residency and showing their ID which would be checked against a federal database which logs the amount of guns and ammo bought.

              If a buyer is reaching some tresholds they’d have to ask for a permit and give some convincing reasons why they need them. Especially when they want to buy AR’s or other heavy weaponry.

              When set in effect, every US citizen has to register their current weapons. After a grace period, owning unregistered weapons and getting caught will get the buyer a ban for owning weapons and having to re-apply for permissions after some time. Getting caught multilple times is a perma ban.

              Every US citizen should have the right to buy guns and ammo to protect themselves even if they don’t have a permanent residency. Those could be allowed to buy a handgun, also logged in the federal DB with their ID or SSN.

              Everyone who wants a permit to buy guns needs to complete a training from a state agency.

              That long-ass plan for a better world would see the first major roadblock with the refusal to register their residency by at least 50% of the US-population, right? And it could also be that many left leaning, dems or libertarians would give that idea a hard pass.

              So yeah…probably every part of this plan collides with the US idea of individual freedom. Take a look at Switzerland maybe.

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                Basically yes.

                That’s the idea. Not on ammo though, reloading is better for the environment so let’s not impede that.

                No. That’s a search, you can’t do that in the United States.

                That’s the idea.

                That’s the idea.

                Nope. You have to offer incentives to businesses so they want to make people do it or they won’t sell it, then it’s a business meeting a business decision not the government imposing it’s will. I mean it still is but most people over here are not huge on critical thinking.

                Probably, so you incentiveize it. Again then it’s people sneaking a couple dollars from the government, not the government imposing it’s will.

                Not really, people are just dumb and there’s a lot of money involved in keeping it controversial. You can literally watch profits of the big ammo manufacturers rise and fall every 4 -8 years they’re not going to let that go easily.

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            Sensible regulations would be rubber bullets for newly minted firearms owners. Keep it empty, but if the day comes that you think about going on a mass shooting spree, you’ll probably change your mind when you remember that you’ll be loading rubber bullets and have to explain yourself after you’ve shot someone.

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          when the right does finally manage a coup they’ll be the only ones with any guns you stupid motherfuckers

          Believe it or not, the US military has many guns.

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              The point here is that civilians aren’t going to defeat the US military, full stop. Whether sane people have guns or fascists have guns, only the military matters

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                  Might wanna check the actual combat statistics there bud. Shit Vietnam was also a professional, well-supplied army with a decade of combat experience against the French and massive infrastructure advantages.

                  This is home turf, not foreign soil that’s attempting to be occupied peacefully. Plus, you’d have 50% of a country, give or take, readily willing to turn you in or attack you themselves, and 0 logistics infrastructure.

                  It’s amazing to me this take is still common with people when it’s so easily laughed at.

                  If you wanna go hide in the woods with your buddies, you can do that without trying to overthrow the government.

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                  I think the more important point is that people form militias to protect themselves, and carrying a weapon means considering bad thoughts and being aware of them, the same way that an ex drug user or addict practicing abstinence consistently needs to exert a degree of self discipline.

                  If you ask me, owning a gun just makes violent assholes have a shorter fuse. Think about it, have you ever carried a stick or a knife and thought that carrying it meant something? Now you can be more assertive, but the risk of accidentally shooting people or just flying off the handle and shooting someone suddenly becomes a real risk.

                  A great test would be to give recent licensed gun owners three rubber bullets to use. When you get around to firing it after losing your shit you’ll know that you really lost your cool.

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              Military has equally as many progressives, moderates and centrists who absolutely will not tolerate these people. Source: I’m a submariner who works with nuclear weapons. You try something nutty, we can and will put your face into the concrete, no matter your political affiliation. Basics of the Personnel Reliability Program, the Command Managed Equal Opportunity Program, and Nuclear Weapons Security.

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          Who the heck is paying you to preach this crap? They need a better representative.

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          So… go buy a gun and shoot him myself? No thanks, voting is my weapon of choice and I use it like a machine gun

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      Predicting a failure in background checks here allowing him to get a gun:

      Edit

      https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-maine-shooting-suspect-says-mental-health-deteriorated-rapidly-rcna122353

      “The weapon believed to have been used in the attack was a sniper rifle with .308 caliber bullets, and it was purchased legally this year, officials said.”

      https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lewiston-maine-shooting-robert-card-what-know-rcna122262

      “Maine court records show that a man named Robert Card who was born on the same date as the person of interest was charged with speeding in 2001 and 2002. No other criminal records were listed in the state’s electronic court records system or in several other public records databases.”

      But also:

      "It added that law enforcement said Card ‘recently reported mental health issues to include hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard Base in Saco, ME.’

      The bulletin said Card was reported to have been committed to a mental health facility for two weeks this summer and then released. NBC News has not been able to independently verify the bulletin’s statements about Card’s history."

      In previous incidents, people committed to mental health facilities didn’t have it turn up on their background check unless it was ordered by a judge. That needs to change.

      I’m seeing varying reports that he was also convicted of domestic abuse, but this link shows no such charges.

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      Not very many people have argued that people who have actually made violent threats and been institutionalized should be buying guns.

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        This guy was a firearms instructor. Literally a good guy with a gun turned into a bad guy with a gun.

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          The key point is that he was also recently institutionalized after making threats and SHOULD have had his guns seized, even under existing law.

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            Agreed, but we haven’t been enforcing red flag laws consistently since people start bitching about “mah rites” whenever you try to disarm someone threatening to kill their ex-GF.

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              The referenced law isn’t “red flag laws,” those are something else in which simply reporting “my roomate or ex said bad things, proof? No why would I need that, take the guns first due process second, you heard Trump!”

              Problem is, people do have rights, and as such before you can violate them you have to actually have a reason, like “them being involuntarily commited for hearing vioces and expressing homicidal ideation.”

              Red flag laws are written in such a way that your roomate can call them on you because he’s mad you ate the last Oreo™, so the cops come and take your right to own guns after a secret hearing you weren’t invited to, but it’s ok because you will have the almost impossible opportunity to prove “nuh uh” in court 1 year after the date of arbitrary confiscation, unfortunately by then the cops may have already “destroyed” (read: stolen) the property they’re now supposed to return so even if you do win that case: Oh well, no punishment for the cops, they can shoot innocent people with impunity, you think they’ll get talked to for theft?

              Of course that gets pushback, just like any other bad idea Trump supported (albeit from a different group in this case). Most people are however fine with the law we already have that could have prevented this, problem is people need to do their goddamn job and should have taken his shit/input his commital to NICs.

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                Can you find any precedent of someone getting red-flagged for something as simple as taking the last Oreo? From what I understand, there is a burden of proof on red-flag laws, it usually takes a judge to issue the order to confiscate. Cops are not given unilateral power to disarm someone without any procedure.

                I like how you say this…

                Problem is, people do have rights, and as such before you can violate them you have to actually have a reason…

                …And then immediately say this…

                like “them being involuntarily commited for hearing vioces and expressing homicidal ideation.”

                Literally, involuntary committing someone is a violation of their rights, but it is an violation that is well established by law. Just like say…taking away someone’s guns for a period of time while they are openly threatening people and displaying extreme anti-social behavior

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                  At the moment, they are only a thing in a few states and I’m not sure how often they’re used even there. In some states like Florida it does require some proof, but in my state, while the proposed law got close but was not passed, in addition to everything I said above the complaintant was protected from being charged with perjory in the event it was found out they lied in the inital case.

                  Of course, the complaintant never could have told the judge “he took the last oreo,” if that is what you mean, they would be required to lie, but tbh a secret hearing you’re not invited to is easy for them to lie at so long as the burden of proof is as low as “he said…”

                  but it is an violation that is well established by law.

                  And reasonable. Broadening that to allow anyone who knows you to go to a judge in a secret hearing and say “he bad” with no other proof and bam 1yr without the right to self defense if you ever get it back all because he said she said is “unreasonable.” It is also not well established by law considering all the laws are pretty new and all different in every state that has implimented them VS federal law that is reported (well supposed to be, they need to do their job) into NICs since like '96, and also requires a more “standard” burden of proof.

                  I mean be real, if the red flag laws didn’t have a lower burden of proof than involuntary commitment, what would be the point of them existing? We already have IVCs, which have the added bonus of at least some caliber of mental health professional, if the burden of proof is the same the only difference is instead of attempting to actually get the person help all you do is temporarily take their guns …until they buy more (legally or otherwise), make one, or stab someone, the danger is still there and hasn’t been helped at all, with the IVC they show up in the national database instead of the just California database, with the red flag laws the cops show up and leave you alone with the angry, if disarmed, person, with IVCs they are forced into a facility, allowing someone time to escape, or time for the person to cool off with the ativan and doctors. I mean, the only reason for them is “I’m right.” The question is “is that good or bad.”

                  I’m firmly on the side of “it’s bad, innocent until proven guilty is good.”

                  openly threatening people and displaying extreme anti-social behavior

                  You mean things that can get you IVC’d? So IVC, red flag laws are often built for abuse, you don’t need them unless you intend to abuse it, and if they’re not built to abuse they are functionally the same as an IVC just “less good anyway.”

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                People don’t get their guns taken away after literally threatening to kill people and getting institutionalized and you are worried about it happening over Oreos? How about we START with the self-identified violent maniacs and then worry about the oreo scenario?

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                  Well, if it is really about enforcing the existing laws to you, then the current laws should be fine even though you agree with me they should be enforced. How about START with the current laws and then worry about the red flag laws?

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              Most of these laws, and most of the historic gun control in the US, is really intended to be used to keep guns from the “wrong sort” of people, and that means leftists and brown people generally. Crazy white guys were never the target of any prior firearms legislation or enforcement mechanism. That’s really the core of the problem here.

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        True, but continuing to vote for representatives who refuse to have any conversation about gun control still makes them complicit in this behavior.

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        Someone once told me, be careful of your thoughts for your thoughts may affect your words, be careful of your words because your words may come to become your actions, be careful of your actions for your actions may reflect on your character.

        If you ask me, owning a firearm and making violent threats don’t necessarily mean actions, but I agree that there’s a definitive correlation. I guess that I still believe that the action itself is the most honest and serious commitment to something a person can express.

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          I think the fundamental issues with guns is that they SUBSTANTIALLY shorten the time and effort to put thoughts into action. Thinking “man, i want to kill everyone here.” is a pretty abstract thought, until you actually have the means to kill everyone there right at hand.

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      It doesn’t matter. Not what you say or how many people get slaughtered because of their powertripping fantasies.

      The last time I argued with these folks, it was on r/Europe I think. Besides the rabid antics their arguments were…interesting? My favourite was „Imagine needing another man to protect your home“. Some time later one of them, a young English man, even became famous. By killing his mother and a couple of others. And of course it was a super incel with a multitude of mental health issues.

      The point I’m trying to make is, they don’t care. Or at the very least they are deluded to a point that they don’t see what damage it does.

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      There are so many guns in the US right now that it’s ridiculous. Gun control here would be great… If it were done a hundred years ago. I’m not saying I’m against common sense laws, but like… Pandoras box is open here.

      There are 120 firearms for every 100 civilians that live in the U.S. We have 46% of the total worldwide statistic for civilian ownership. The US makes up only a meager 331.9 million out of 7.89 billion people worldwide. That means 4.2% of the world owns 46% of the guns… And those people are all American.

      On top of this, some of the most heinous shootings in US history were performed with illegally obtained weapons. Columbine is one of the examples most will recognize.

      I’m not leading up to anything here, I just wanted to educate everyone on how fucked we are.

      Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_ownership

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        I’m not leading up to anything here, I just wanted to educate everyone on how fucked we are.

        Definitely, but your argument is unfortunately what keeps us from ever doing anything about it. Thinking that it can’t be done is just not good enough.

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      America has too many guns to ever have gun control. Move to Canada if you want that peace of mind.

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          I don’t know anyone who picks up a six pack of violence on their way home from work. Just kidding lmao I know what you mean.

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        You may be blind to it, but it’s there.

        Your past failure to learn from these continued atrocities is your complicity. Your current preference to protect the tools of violence over lives is your complicity. Your future vote to keep the status quo even as history repeats itself is your complicity.

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          On the contrary. I believe the tools of violence are the only things that will allow us to protect lives.

          Gun control has historically been used as a tool to oppress further those who resist oppression. You can see it today, every murder by the police is defended with “they reached for my gun” or “they had a gun”. The gun control laws you want will be enforced by the police and they will be enforced selectively against minorities. The atrocities you reference are almost universally committed by right wing straight white men. I can assure you no gun control will stop them from acquiring firearms.

          There is an explicit example of this in Israel today. The settlers are allowed and encouraged to possess firearms while the Palestinians are explicitly disallowed.

          It’s ahistoric to say that gun control will save lives. This country only implemented gun control when indigenous and black people began carrying firearms in self defense. Many black men concealed carried pistols to defend against lynchings which is how we have concealed carry restrictions. Because it became illegal to conceal carry, the lynchings continued. Atrocities continue.

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            While I appreciate your effort to sound informed, you’re wrong.

            The US is the only developed country in the world with a serious gun violence issue and it’s also the only developed country where firearms are flooding the streets.

            The US is not more mentally ill than other developed countries. The difference is access to weapons. You can choose to live in denial about that, because you prioritize your weapons over lives, but, like I said, that makes you complicit.

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              I don’t think you read my comment. I didn’t mention mental illness. And I explained how access to firearms will not be restricted to those who commit the violence.

              I would prefer to live in a country with no guns but that is not the reality we live in. And it will not be the reality no matter how many laws get pressed. They will be selectively enforced by a fascist police force.

              In Colorado, there is a magazine capacity limit of 15 rounds. The police choose not to enforce this. You can walk into any gun store and buy a drum magazine holding 150 rounds. In a metropolitan area with probably the most horrific mass shootings. The only time it will ever be a crime is when the police murder a brown person with a magazine holding more than 15 rounds.

              I understand you want to live in a safe community and don’t want to read news about mass shooters every week. I think you should accept this and act accordingly, don’t bring a knife to a gun fight. The people who hold power do not care and laws they would implement would not stop the violence and would disenfranchise vulnerable communities.

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                I appreciate your honesty and perspective from where you sit. But this is also exactly why things never change and we experienced massacre after massacre. That “it can’t be done” attitude. It can be done if you vote for people who want to do something about this. The reality is that, in general, Republicans don’t want anything to change, so they will never get my vote. Whenever I can, I vote for candidates who want to press a full repeal of the 2nd amendment. No guns = no gun violence.

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                  If there were to be an actual ban on firearms that starts with the police, I would support it.

                  Republicans passed the mulford act in California.

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      Yup, you’re right, because millions of people have owned guns legally for hundreds of years, it’s their fault and blood is on their hands for this mass shooting.

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        Your past failure to learn from these continued atrocities is your complicity. Your current preference to protect the tools of violence over lives is your complicity. Your future vote to keep the status quo even as history repeats itself is your complicity.

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          Yup my failure to learn is my complicity, it’s all my fault. You sure know a lot about me. I’m going to need a few to come up with a better reply though, I’ve been coughing up straw all day.

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        Guns three hundred years ago were only slightly more dangerous than a guy with a rock and a mean your mama so fat joke. It isn’t hundreds of years it’s like 150 years.

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          I’d rather be shot with a modern hollow point today with modern medicine than shot with ball ammo and get the medical care from 300 years ago, but that’s just me.

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            Literally not even remotely relevant to what the conversation was but go off.

            I’d also rather get hit with a semi truck today with modern medicine than get run over by a horse and carriage in 1840.

            But I don’t see what that has to do with the fact that a semi truck traveling at max speed can level a small building vs a carriage just kinda flattening it’s own horses on impact.

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            Yes it is literally just you. You are the only person on earth gaming out situations where you have a choice between getting shot 300 years ago or shot today.

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      10 million were tortured and shoved into ovens and gas chambers in Germany. That blood is on the hands of gun control supporters.

      86 people were murdered and 434 injured with a rental truck in Nice, France. More than any other mass shooting in history. The tools are not the problem. Indiscriminate murder is incredibly easy and will remain so regardless of what laws you pass. The only thing you take away is the ability for individuals to defend themselves.

      Guns have been an American pastime for as long as America has been around and yet only in the last ~30 years did we begin to see a rise in crimes of this type.

      This guy was former military and it sounds like he was hallucinating. Better mental healthcare could have prevented this tragedy. Along with I’m sure a myriad of other, more difficult solutions.

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        A truck is not designed specifically to kill as many people as possible in as little time as possible. Most firearms are. This type of firearm certainly is.

        You can’t sit in a hotel room in Las Vegas, hundreds of yards from a crowd, and kill 60 people and wound more than 400 with a truck or a knife. Very different tools.

        And I really don’t care about your gun “pastime” or “rights.” I care about getting my kids safely home from school and how having 5-year-olds do active shooter drills. Insanity.

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          You can’t sit in a hotel room in Las Vegas, hundreds of yards from a crowd, and kill 60 people and wound more than 400 with a truck

          Car bomb detonated by remote control, IRA style

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          A truck is not designed specifically to kill as many people as possible in as little time as possible. Most firearms are. This type of firearm certainly is.

          And yet it does the job all the same. That’s the whole point.

          And I really don’t care about your gun “pastime” or “rights.”

          I’m sure it was intentional but you missed the point.

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            Did you even read my comment? Try throwing that truck from a hotel room in Vegas and see how many people it kills. It does not do the same job and it’s not designed to do the same job.

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              I don’t agree with Helen, but their point stands. The truck did complete the intended action of executing the 84 people all the same. That being said, there are more stop gaps for a reckless driver (bollards are everywhere in the US). Stopping someone with a loaded trigger is a lot harder. I think the France situation was exceptional and not a standard road rage incident/attack. What would need to happen to have a fair assessment is compare the per capita fatality from road rage incidents to armed attacks.

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                It happened in Berlin at the Breitscheidplatz in 2016 on a christmas fair too where 12 people were murdered by an islamist with a truck. Since these events I feel I’ve seen a lot more concrete roadblocks capable to stop trucks here in populated areas in european cities.

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              LOL your comment is completely ridiculous. You obviously don’t need to throw it from a hotel room, you can simply drive it down a road full of people.

              I have literally no idea what your point is.

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        gas chambers in Germany. That blood is on the hands of gun control supporters.

        The “nazi gun control supported the holocaust” argument has been debunked for a very long time. Argument debunk Nazi gun control laws

        Frtuermore, gun control supporters of today are not the same as NAZI gun control supporters - who disarmed Jews.

        This misinformation disappoints me, but the nature of your comment is overwhelmingly correct.

        The tools are not the problem. Indiscriminate murder is incredibly easy and will remain so regardless of what laws you pass.

        Horrifying words that ring true. Gun control is in my opinion moot for many reasons. This guy deserved more healthcare.

        Your arguments about vans are OK but your fascist talking points tell me you’re not worth listening to.

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          The “nazi gun control supported the holocaust” argument has been debunked

          No, it hasn’t. Several people have provided their opinions on the matter. Certainly biased opinions. It can’t be “debunked” with anything less than a time machine and a militia the size that would make the NRA blush.

          Frtuermore, gun control supporters of today are not the same as NAZI gun control supporters - who disarmed Jews.

          Doesn’t matter if they’re the same or not. Only thing that matters is whether the people are disarmed. Regimes change.

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            The fucking 1% of Germans who were jewish, who were forcefully disarmed were not going to avoid getting genocided by remaining armed or trying to purchase more arms.

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              Yes. They would. And they killed more than the jews, you know? About 40% we’re non-Jewish.

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                “… It is preposterous to argue that the possession of firearms would have enabled them to mount resistance against a systematic program of persecution implemented by a modern bureaucracy, enforced by a well-armed police state, and either supported or tolerated by the majority of the German population.” - Alan E. Steinweis, NYT Source

                Your arguments so far are that people saying this are obviously biased. If we assume those persecuted could have gained firearms, armed themselves and formed a highly organized militia - all while facing road blocks at each and every turn - do you really think this militia could have kept a genocide from occurring?

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        A couple points.

        One: No armed militia is going to stop the US 7bn dollar military apparatus on home territory. Don’t bring up Vietnam. Don’t bring up Afghanistan. If you think gravy seals navy is anything compared to the Viet Cong you are deluded.

        Two: using the France terrorist road vehicle attack as a counter is disingenuous use of stats/numbers. You can’t compare a singular attack to the average gun based attacks in the US. What you would do -if you really cared to compare them- is take the average per capita road rage incident or vehicle based murders and compare them to the gun related mass shootings / deaths. You can control for many factors too (time frames, region, age, etc). Something about guns being readily available makes them more likely to be used. We have millions of people driving and only so many intentional terrorist attacks using vehicles.

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          One: No armed militia is going to stop the US 7bn dollar military apparatus on home territory.

          It’s a tired argument I’m not interested in taking up again, but the answer is yes, they can. The military didn’t drop bombs on Waco.

          You can’t compare a singular attack to the average gun based attacks in the US.

          I didn’t. I compared it to every mass shooting in the history of the country. The moral of the story (since you missed it) is that you can ban guns and it won’t stop people from just using something else when they want to hurt large groups of random people.

          Something about guns being readily available makes them more likely to be used.

          Which is precisely why “gun deaths” and “gun violence” is a terrible metric. Even if you could theoretically take them all away, they’d just use something else (like a rental truck). Notice a theme here?

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            Yes. The theme is your inability to understand stats. If cars, which are more readily available than guns are able to cause more damage every shooter would go for that but reality is guns are easier. Sure, if they’re determined they will find a way, but people tend to go for the easiest path. Deterrents tend to slow the process as studies have shown. That’s why looking at stats is so useful for understanding circumstances and deterrents. That’s if you really wanted to have an unbiased honest conversation.

            Waco is not serving your argument. Firstly, the military was not involved. Second, we’re talking 4 ATF agents lost compared to 76 adults. Soooo…I don’t see the relevance. The Xbox gravy seals is not going to live up to it’s expectations. Shit, is proud boys the best example of the 2a crowd because they look like they can’t run a mile either (that’s must my opinion though, maybe the photos are deceiving).

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              I believe the point they are making is that “sure guns are the easiest path until you ban guns, then something else (seemingly cars is suggested) would become the easiest path and therefore would be ‘switched to’ by those wishing to cause violence, as their violent ideation was not dealt with merely the tool was, so now the tool has changed.”

              I.e, most people hammer in nails with a hammer becuse it’s the easiest path, but if you ban hammers and I need this nail in this wood, I guess I’ll use the back of my wrench. Sure, it isn’t as good but it’ll work just fine. I wouldn’t say “oh well nothing can be built, guess I won’t build shit,” if I’m significantly determined to get that nail in I’ll do everything in my power to do so including using tools not exactly meant for the job but that’ll work.

              One could make the argument that “at least it takes me longer to build the thing,” or “you’ll be able to build less things,” but that is only true assuming I downgrade to a wrench. I could make my own hammer easily, or I could upgrade to a nail gun (in this analogy I guess that’d be a pressure cooker and some nails Boston Marathon style.)

              They do not seem to be saying “cars are more effective than guns,” imo, though it seems to be taken that way by (possibly you and) others in this thread.

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                The research shows that deterrents work. The more there are in place, the less likely the acts are going to be committed. That’s why gun owners have such a high success rate with suicide. It’s much easier. You can all keep insisting that the attackers will switch to the next best thing but if that was the case, every other country in the world would have an equal amount of murder sprees, just committed by cars instead? Reality shows that mass killings in developed countries happen predominantly in the US. Why is that?

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                  Sure, suicide is easier with guns, but Japan demonstrates quite well that they are hardly a prerequisite. Guns are banned in Japan and so, to the other commenter’s point, they find another way to achieve their goals. Guns aren’t even statistically the most effective, drinking on train tracks is (or doing fentanyl on the train tracks, hit ya with the 2x.)

                  You can all keep insisting that the attackers will switch to the next best thing but if that was the case, every other country in the world would have an equal amount of murder sprees, just committed by cars instead?

                  Sure if you don’t account for any other differences between countries like mental health or other social services, or culture, or anything. Unfortunately in reality it is rarely that black and white, there are other differences.

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                  if that was the case, every other country in the world would have an equal amount of murder sprees

                  Yes, because every other country is otherwise identical…

                  Reality shows that mass killings in developed countries happen predominantly in the US.

                  No. It doesn’t.

                  However, I can think of a certain group of unarmed people right now being murdered by the hundreds/day by an invading force.

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              The theme is your inability to understand stats.

              …what stats? You mean stats of the most successful mass murders? I think that belongs to trucks and planes.

              If cars, which are more readily available than guns are able to cause more damage every shooter would go for that but reality is guns are easier.

              Guns are just what they see on TV. Lots of people use cars, bombs or whatever else. In the case of France they didn’t have guns, but it obviously didn’t stop them.

              Waco is not serving your argument. Firstly, the military was not involved.

              Uuuuhhh but that WAS my argument…

              Second, we’re talking 4 ATF agents lost compared to 76 adults

              It doesn’t matter. No one is keeping score. The point is they stood up for themselves and gave the ATF a fuckin’ helluva time. Wanna take a poll on how many armed citizens there are vs. ATF agents? Or even the entirety of the US military?

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                Yea the military was never involved. So it has nothing to do with my initial point. Buck and Chuck are not taking down the US army. I don’t know why we got sidetracked with it.

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                  You’re the one who brought it up?

                  The point is the military won’t be dropping bombs on its own people.

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        This is like saying that cancer isn’t the only way you can die so we should stop trying to cure cancer

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          It’s also like saying cancer is not the only way you can die and pointing to something like syphilis also killing people. Sure they both kill people but one kills way more people and is much less avoidable.

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          The mass shootings are the symptom of a larger mental health problem. Here in Canada where we have much more gun control we recently memorialized one of our most deadly attacks, The Toronto van attack which killed 11 and wounded 15 (some critically). How is gun control going to help the fact that some people out there want to kill as many lives as possible?

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            how is gun control going to help the fact that some people out there want to kill as many lives as possible?

            By reducing access to a very powerful tool for murder. Here is a comparison of USA and Canadian homicide rates

            Are you pointing to a single incident from 5 years ago as evidence that non-gun mass murders are common in Canada? Do you think that when gun control is enacted, all the people that would have committed murder via gun would instead commit as much murder using improvised weapons? If so, can you show any data that bears this out?

            Even though other methods of murder can be devised, restricting access to the easiest, fastest method is effective in reducing murder.

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              Canada also has a health care system where mentally ill folks can get help.

              Canada is also less population dense and only has roughly 1/10th of the US population.

              Even though other methods of murder can be devised, restricting access to the easiest, fastest method is effective in reducing murder.

              The per-capita rate while a useful tool is not going to compare the effects of mass shootings. You’re more than likely talking about handguns in this context which are responsible for a lot more deaths overall than AR-style rifles.

              https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/

              Switzerland has lots of guns but not mass shootings, and has a much lower murder rate. Finland similarly has lots of guns but not mass shootings.

              The bigger issue is that half of the US government doesn’t want to fund mental health programs, red flag laws, etc. There are some models we could follow other than “ban guns” or “ban assault rifles” … but dealing with rampant mental health issues would help a lot. It’s just a shame the Republicans will parrot “mental health” but then not vote for bills that will actually do anything to improve mental health.

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                I hate this about lemmy. It looks like youve been banned/deleted/something from the thread. So now all your comments and all replies have disappeared from the conversation.

                I think I said this before, but in case I didn’t: I agree that the mental health side of this equation is also critical. That doesn’t change the fact that the gun control side of the equation is a major factor. Also, if you’re going to cherry pick Switzerland stats, then don’t forget to also look at their gun control laws, which are much stronger than the US (and it appears Canada, although I’m less sure there). You seem to want to cherry pick data to show that it’s all mental health and guns aren’t a significant part of the problem. Good luck with that.

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                  I don’t think it was me, but the other person who was acting like a jerk… Which is unfortunate.

                  I suspect we agree on more than we disagree here, I’m just sick of people who “can’t vote for Democrats because they want to take my guns.”

                  I also can’t dismiss maybe there are some benefits to having a well armed population.

                  I don’t expect to ever hit 0, maybe you do. But, I think we should be able to do much better than several public places shot up by someone who’s out of their mind per year. The fastest way towards that to me is effectively universal health care, research, appropriate treatment, and maybe even investment in some new technology/unexplored mitigation strategy.

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            Ah yes, the epidemic of van killings we all suffer from.

            No one claims gun restrictions are going to stop every last murder.

            And if folks were killing each other with Vans several times a week, you can bet there would be some Van Control legislation passed in a hot minute.

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              That’s not the point at all. The point is that there are mentally ill people who want to kill and they’ll find a way. We’ve got a record number of people that are seemingly in this category as of late.

              In prior decades mass shootings like this were not issues like they are today, the first AR-15s were available in the late 1950s. You can find “mass shootings” going back into the start of the 20th century, but they’re not the same mass shootings we’re seeing today. They’re much more targeted violence.

              Now… It’s “I’m going to kill you because you’re at Walmart(?)”

              Keep in mind the US has roughly 10x the population. If we want to do an apples oranges comparison of the two countries … that’s potentially 10 van incidents in the US in place of mass shootings.

              But that’s not a fair comparison either because Canada has an accessible health care system.

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                If your argument is we need to address mental health, I’m not going to argue with you there. But guess which party in the US is described by all four of these bullet points:

                • gutted our mental health infrastructure

                • Consistently votes down legislation to fund investment in mental health infrastructure

                • Consistently opposes any measures to implement Red Flag laws or other attempts to make it harder to own guns

                • Consistently deflects to mental health being the problem whenever we have more people die

                While they are refusing to budge on either of the two middle bullet points, people are just dying.

                So I have little sympathy for folks who defend guns with the premise that mental health is the real problem. Fine, let’s say it is, doesn’t matter because you are preventing us as a nation from addressing either of those issues.

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                  I have voted a pretty much straight blue ticket in all elections since 2016. I also have friends that guns are a very important issue for though, and I don’t think the Democratic party is getting anywhere being the “party out to get the guns.”

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          It’s not really the same… There are people that like guns for a variety of reasons and 99% of them will never take a life. Their only reason for existing isn’t to go on a murderous rampage.

          This was the example where I just said “you know what, banning guns isn’t going to fix it”

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongsberg_attack

          Another person replied about an attack with a van in Canada.

          I think we genuinely need to treat this as a mental health crisis, but like for real. Not the Republican “thoughts and prayers” mental health crisis, but a real thought out use of resources to figure out why so regularly we have people in our society that want to kill a bunch of random people.

          We should also do more background checks and close loopholes, even though that wouldn’t have helped here.

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            It would have helped here. This guy was previously committed for mental health issues. That should have required him to give his guns to a friend or whoever for safe keeping.

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            So according to you just because we haven’t figured out how to stop it we should just throw in the towel, right?

            Gtfo with your fatalism.

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                I’m guessing you think that mental illness is the root cause and also that you don’t think a dime should go towards a universal healthcare plan that includes caring for the mentally ill.

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            Actually you are the one work the false equivalency.

            You know why your comparison is idiotic? Because it is comparing a mountain (gun violence) to a mole hill (vehicular homicide). If what you said was at all accurate, people would be using those methods significantly more often in other developed countries. Guess what? They don’t. They are used at basically the same rates as here in the US. The major difference is that those countries have much guns per capita.

            So again stop pretending like the comparison is even close to a good one or that you have some sort of gotcha.

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            Kinda like how you singularly invented the rhetoric that it’s useless to discuss gun control because it wouldn’t solve 100.00% of possible killings?

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                It’s literally not what you said, but you’re clearly not out here in good faith, so enjoy the shit flinging.

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                  Maybe you should read my comments instead for a change but it’s fine, I accept your concession

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                  Do you think shooting up a public place is the action of a sane, rational individual?

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                  No, you’re absolutely right. As soon as we repeal the 2nd, outlaw and confiscate all the guns, all shootings will immediately stop and never ever happen again. It’s simple really.

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                  So we’re comparing mass shootings to small cuts, now. Here I thought you considered them a big issue?

                  Or do you slap a bandaid on giant lacerations, too?

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        If those were just as deadly and easy, people would be using them. A fertilizer bomb can easily kill the person making it and the spread of a truck is significantly slower and more obvious than a bullet.

        You are correct that there are multiple ways to kill people. But the other methods are not as likely to kill and are harder to operate effectively. There is no comparison so stop acting like there is one.

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            Are you this dumb? Seriously? If you intent is to kill someone, it is significantly easier to do with a gun than with a fucking truck. If you miss with a truck, you think you can just ask the people to wait a bit while you back up and try to hit them again? How many hours do you think you can get in with one truck vs with one gun? You miss with a gun, it is easy to fire again.

            As for a fertilizer bomb, it is not like the Anarchist Cookbook makes it out to be. Lots of people die while making explosives. Many die trying to set them off. How many people die purchasing a gun? How many people die using a gun compared to the number of bullets expended from guns. Going to guess the death ratio is a hell of a lot lower than fertilizer bombs.

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        What a stupid fucking argument. Gun violence is a sheer numbers game. The ease of access and use of firearms is a massive problem, and when you combine that with the serious socio-economic/political problems in this country that is how you end up with this on-going violence.

        Yeah, there are other ways for people to commit violence such as the examples you provided, but they aren’t used at the same scale or with the same frequency. Why? Well, partly because building a bomb is a lot more complicated than buying a gun. Does it still happen? Yes, but again with FAR less frequency.

        Your argument that because there are other ways to commit violence that we should not do anything to combat gun violence is just so tired and misguided. We should do something where we can to combat problems that we know how to deal with. It isn’t a fucking mystery how you limit gun violence. You need to limit the number of guns.

        Look at smoking as an example. Everyone knows that smoking causes cancer now. There are still people who choose to smoke, but it has become much less prominent thanks to social enforcement of not smoking in public places among other things. It took a generation, but millions of lives have been saved thanks to the slow roll of common sense limitations and restrictions on tobacco products.

        Quit using these fallacious arguments, and just say what you really mean:

        “I don’t personally care about people who die to gun violence because my personal desire to continue owning guns supercedes the need for any common sense gun reforms.”

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          What gun control would stop this? 95% of our violence via guns is from handguns. 85+% is drug and gang related, 2/3rds is suicides. Shootings like this are a rounding error in the 40k a year deaths, and when compared to the police killing 1k~ a year (yes 1 in 40 of those 40k is from the police) shootings like this aren’t an issue. They just get views because they cause more carnage. An AWB and background checks won’t stop this. Our society is breaking down and it’s not the firearms that are the root cause.

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            shootings like this aren’t an issue.

            And yet they happen in the U.S. far more than any other Western country. Which sounds like an issue.

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            Stop putting words into my mouth.

            First of all, make me.

            Second of all, I only put the words there that you were too disingenuous to utter yourself because you would rather use fallacious arguments than to own your position outright.

            argue against the ones I’m actually saying you stupid shit.

            I did that too, but you didn’t want to engage with that. I think that says a lot about the quality (or lack there of) in your arguments.

            Do you think shooting up a public place is the action of a rational, sane individual?

            No.

            Do you think that maybe, just maybe, this country’s healthcare system, especially it’s mental healthcare, could maybe use some improvement?

            Yes.

            Do you think that the rights of innocent, sane individuals should be violated just because someone else unrelated to them committed a crime?

            This is a bad argument. I never said “ban guns” because I know that is never going to happen in this country. However, I am also aware there are other ways to combat the problem like mandatory registration, increasing the age to buy firearms, better red flag laws, and many other enforcement options.

            I’m sorry you don’t like the truth, but the truth is that our existing regulations would work just fine if we actually had a functioning healthcare system that could, I dunno, maybe help these people before they go off the deep end. Crazy, I know.

            Two things can need improvement at the same time. We can have better gun laws, and better healthcare. They are not mutually exclusive. Only knuckle-dragging half-wits think these problems aren’t interrelated, and therefore a multi-pronged approach to solving them would obviously be necessary.

            Then again, maybe you’d prefer another Oklahoma City instead.

            More fallacious argumentation from you. What a surprise. This doesn’t even justify engaging with.

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              These are really great ideas. If only we had manditory registration, a high age restriction for guns (why not 35? That’s the same age you have to be president right?), and really strong red flag laws (seems like we need to take the guns from people in the military, they don’t seem to be fit to have guns), there’s a chance this shooting wouldn’t have happened.

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              Ah, so now you claim to read minds. Ok. Not reading the rest of this drivel, it’s clear you’re not really up to this. Better luck next time, champ!

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            Sane yes
            Rational no
            You just want these shooters to be mentally ill so they’re one of the lesser people. It’s sad.

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        You know that nobody has ever claimed it’s the only way a nutjob would kill people

        But for whatever reason, it’s vastly more common to murder.people with a gun than with a truck or fertilizer bomb.

        Coincidentally trucks are licensed, registered, and highly regulated. And while I’m sure you can get around it, the sale of ingredients that can be used in bombs are generally tracked/regulated as well.

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        I think the point you seemed to have missed is that building a fertilizer bomb is not as simple as obtaining a gun in many places in the US. There are no specific fertilizer bomb stores. There are no fertilizer bomb “shows”. They cannot be reused, you would have to build a new one every time…unlike a gun. They are illegal everywhere because they are bombs, and and every time you make a new one, you risk blowing yourself up first…which is a great feature!

        Running a truck into a crowd, I mean sure, but I doubt you’d take out, say, 20 (just going off of what the current number of dead is in Maine), or 60 (Las Vegas) people. The Boston bombing “only” killed 3 people, so yeah sure I guess I’d prefer a relatively few people to take the time to make one and, assuming they didn’t fuck up, sure, I guess some innocent people could die here and there. It would suck, but I like trying to minimize easily preventable deaths. People escape from prison, too, but most don’t, and so we don’t just throw our hands up and say “oh well, guess we won’t investigate” every time that happens.

        And I guess you could run a truck into an elementary school classroom somehow and manage to mow down 19 kids, but I really doubt it. I don’t have anything to compare that to, unlike…well yeah there’s been a lot of those in schools to look at over the past 20 or so years, so pick one.

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            It’s interesting that you bring up McVeigh, not too long ago I finished the book “Homegrown, Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism” by Jeffrey Toobin. It’s fantastic, highly recommend.

            While he did have numerous weapons, his major beef was with the federal government, and it took him years to become as radicalized as he did. There were also other factors, like him failing out of a military special forces class, so he went awhile between jobs and sleeping at friends’ places just to make ends meet. And he was upset over Ruby Ridge and Waco.

            Eventually he was able to convince Terry Nichols to help him, but quite a few told him to get lost before Nichols agreed. But he definitely already had plenty of guns if he had wanted to do something before OKC (spoiler alert, he is a “person of interest” in at least one, an infant), but he didn’t. He wanted to make a statement. And we haven’t seen anything on that scale other than 9/11 and maybe Boston (if you count straight up terrorism). So yeah, let’s do it. Seems like we already have people who want to make enough of a statement that they make bombs and kill people, in addition to all of the guns in this country.

            I’d be cool with making at least one of those options much less accessible.

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        I’m genuinely sorry that you’re so stupid and afraid. Having poor education, no good role models and lack of support from friends and family is a pretty devastating combination. Maybe as you get older you’ll grow out of being the way you are.

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        Ah right, the hundreds of fertilizer bomb attacks we have every year.

        As if it wouldn’t become a lot harder to buy fertilizer in days if that were the case.

        (No I didn’t miss the McVeigh reference, I just found it to be a ridiculous false equivalence.)

        And if folks were running into crowds with trucks twice a week, we’d see some new restrictions there also.

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        You’re in denial. Stop being in denial. Seriously.

        There’s a reason why you can’t buy bombs in the bomb store. These things are professionally designed to explode and kill as many people as possible.

        Yet, you can go and buy an AR-15 or worse in a gun store. A weapon professionally designed to kill as many people as possible in as little time as possible.

        This is an almost entirely American problem. It’s not like the US is more mentally ill than every other developed country in the world. What distinguishes the US is the easy access to weapons. Take the tools of these killings away.

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    Get rid of guns and you can stop this.

    It’s the most basic solution that even conservatives can understand.

    They seem to apply the following logic to everything else:

    Stop immigrants? Build wall

    Stop terrorists? Kill them

    Stop homeless? Bus them

    Stop poor? Tax cut

    Stop mass shootings? Ban guns

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      Ok wait a minute. The conservatives are wrong on all 4 of those. So are you saying that logic would be wrong for banning guns also? Not sure which argument you are making here.

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        What I’m saying is that if you applied their logic it should hold true that they’d just ban guns.

        But they don’t, which is weird.

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          they don’t like immigrants, the homeless, poor, etc. They do like guns.

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      One of the more common threads across these shootings is that the shooters tend to have some sort of mental issues that are painfully obvious and seem to get reported well before the shooting occurs. But the shooter’s illness often festers in solitude, just circling a mental drain and getting more deranged until some sort of trigger sets them off. IMO, there needs to be a system that encourages gun owners to keep tabs on each other and vouch for each other (else lose their own license), and also require enlistment in the National Guard (with some sort of reduced requirements made for physical disabilities), with regular mental health screenings to check for stuff like this. Owning a gun should be treated as a huge responsibility, not something that just gets handed out to any dipshits just because they’re 'Merican.

      Getting rid of guns altogether would be great, but that just won’t fly in America, there’s just no chance of that happening anytime soon.

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      No one’s even saying you have to ban all guns! Just common sense gun control would have prevented this! The dude was in an asylum and heard voices!!!

      If they had taken the guns of this obviously troubled person, all those innocent people would have been unharmed…

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    I love how ppl who know nothing about guns are talking about how “it can’t be full auto because $$$$”

    Shut the fuck up u fools …

    U can buy a $20 auto sear online that makes any ar full auto. Yes its illegal. No one cares.

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      The big secret is ful auto or not doesn’t matter, that gun will shoot as fast as you can pull the trigger. And someone like This I’m sure knows how to bump fire from damn near any position.

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        Yeah, people think that being able to fire off a whole magazine with one squeeze of the trigger means they can mow down 30 people like a gangster from an old black and white movie.

        If anything, full auto would just make their shots less accurate and they’d run out of ammo faster in the heat of the moment.

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          I would use burst fire fairly often but otherwise semi auto was plenty effective. Outside of really rare circumstances fully auto would do little more than show of force and waste ammo.

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    this happened at a crowded bowling alley

    Lewiston, about 35 miles north of Portland, emerged as a major center for African immigration into Maine. The Somali population, which numbers in the thousands, has changed the demographics of the once overwhelmingly white mill city into one of the most diverse in northern New England.

    any indication that the crowd was any particular complexion?

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      I haven’t read anything about it, so I can’t say for sure, but I work in the Lewiston area and I’ve heard both the bowling alley and bar to be more “local” oriented businesses.

      The Walmart distribution center is a weird one though, because it’s not really a store front.

      Whatever his motivations are, it breaks my heart to see it happen in our neck of the woods.

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      The maine news was reporting that he had recently sought mental health support for schizophrenia and hearing voices.

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    Excerpt from the US version of the Prayer of the Lord: “… and give us today our daily bread active shooter…”

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    did they ask the guy with the huge gun what United States American political group he affiliates with? I feel like that’s the question everyone’s asking but I don’t know because I didn’t actually look