I was in ROTC in 1980 and every day after lunch I checked out a rifle and a box of .22 ammo and shot (unsupervised) for an hour. It never occurred to me to turn that rifle on my classmates. Something has changed in society that is making young people feel "unseen" and lost. The gun hasn't changed.
You're right, people used to not shoot CEOs too. It's almost like high social division and stresses, low family resources due to lack of salary spending power, & specific targets seen as key parts of a person's misery, has led to guns being used as tools of personal vengeance despite self sacrifice?
I was in JROTC in the 2000s, also never turned a gun on classmates. That's because the purpose for wielding was different. I too lived in a troubled house and faced bullying, if I decided differently they'd've known about it pretty quick, pumped up kicks and all that. It's only gotten worse since.
Maybe read a few manifestos? Figure out a common theme? You can't ban trans-rights & wouldn't need to if the public wasn't divided on how to treat them, or if they were better protected for their civil liberties. Flogging those who are different is bad form, especially when they retaliate with guns.
At this point, I think many of these troubled youth see these shootings as one of the few methods of being seen. Many of them study the methods and preparations of those that came before them. What they share in common is that they don’t have any real animus toward their victims;they’re just “there”
"Over 31,000 children have been affected by a shooting on a K-12 campus during school hours this year alone, according to The Washington Post’s School Shooting tracker."
Let's say for the sake of argument that your child has been removed from an active shooter incident in their school, with multiple dead bodies nearby. How uninjured is the child?
I see that you are choosing to ignore the vanishingly small probability of that happening and instead are going for an appeal to emotion. That won’t get you anywhere.
The GOP has a plan for this, remember? We just need to shore up the schools with more guards and fewer doors. Even though that’s a fire hazard, and security doesn’t seem to help much. And it’s not just schools. Hm. 🤔
It is just Capitalism, focus attention to the real problem. When everything is a transaction, then everything has a Value. The market will assess it lower than you for that you hold dear. It is not a mystery, just boring old evil, where proximate personal ‘good’ outweighs everything else.
2nd Winter 2024 edit to include MTG’s neighbors when her bullets start reigning down from the night sky. She clearly doesn’t have a solid grasp on that whole what goes up must come down gravity thing.
I can’t condone killing anyone, that said it’s sad news of the CEO, his shooter and his “special “ gun is endless. Yet news of yet another schooling, the shooter and his gun hardly get even a peep .
Let's face the truth people. The children watch the hate, mostly from the right and alt right, and also the hate their brainwashed parents teach them. Then they act it out.
PLAIN AND SIMPLE! Unless respect is implemented, this crap will continue.
Well, no, hate exists in every country on earth yet you're the only developed country where these events are common place, clearly there's something else
Every family that has lost a loved one in a mass shooting should join forces and sue the, family of the shooter,the stores that sold the weapon,the manufacturer of the weapons and the ammunition companies..
Yep..these two organizations are bought and paid for by billionaires that profit off deaths of humans. When a person is shot,NRA tells its people, if the victim was armed,he would not have died. The scumpublicans,when someone gets shot, if the victim was armed,the victim would not have died..
I thought you might like to see the header of my congressman's email newsletter. He is Eli Crane from AZ-02. They glorify the use of weapons, approved by the whole party.
It seems to work for them. Not with you or me, but with enough for AZ-02 to be completely safe for him. Jonathan Naz was a good candidate and would have been a much better Rep.
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Maybe instead of forcing drugs on kids we should just educate them to be good people. It shouldn’t surprise you that most mass shooters are messed up kids that had doctors and teachers force drugs on them so they wouldn’t be a distraction in school.
😱💔 UNPREVENTABLE TRAGEDY? 🚫 Only in the US: Another devastating event occurs, and the nation's response is... "No Way To Prevent This" 🙅♂️. The Onion highlights the heartbreaking cycle of inaction 🔄💀 #GunControlNow #EnoughIsEnough #USPolicyReform
As an Army combat engineer for 8 years believe me, guns are a bigger threat to public safety than bombs. It takes a lot of planning, prep and even luck (considering the purchase of potential explosive material is closely monitored here) to successfully bomb a target; guns are easy for anyone to use.
What's worse? All the wars that started because of the weak and confused leadership of Joe Biden. And all the lives lost because this weak and confused leader funds these wars. Something is going to end. And it's going to start January 20th.
My guy trump had 4 fucking years to do something about and told people to (get over it)
I didn't stop with Biden yes' but it has happened a fuck less in this country
Says nothing to do with guns it has to do with hatred. I actually moved from X to blue because they said that X was so hateful good Lord read your posts.
"Hi. Yeah. Um....so, a friend of a friend who's dead now got over-prescribed opiates in place of other kinds of treatment, one thing led to another...."
"Yes, of course, I'm terribly sorry. Um....this is just the "shooting" section. "Shooting UP" is over there."
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Spot on.
Football Stadiums (NFL and NCAA)
Indoor Stadiums (basketball, hockey, indoor concerts)
Airports
Gun Shops/Gun shows
Government Buildings, etc.
Just interesting and I wonder why?
Sorry your kid got capped after lunch.
I heard a bunch of them fell down the stairs.
Please accept these thoughts and prayers.
"What should I give someone for a holocaust?"
PLAIN AND SIMPLE! Unless respect is implemented, this crap will continue.
excellent, but ouch.
Social commentary can hurt your soul.
read it, kinda comical as some people clearly see the world that way.
"As far as the kids who survive, if they manage to get a good interview that stands out, they might get to build a career out of their trauma."
kids dont produce any GDP compared to what they consume. Arkansas is trying to change that though.
How many ppl said "immigrants use resources, dont pay taxes"
Same Energy.
When will it end?
And the shooters have their obvious approval, no matter how much they might protest in public.
TY 🔫4 the decisions that weaken State(esp.💙)Gun Safety Laws. Remove our liberties & freedoms. Can’t Shop for groceries, go 2 🕍🕌💒 this holiday season. SCOTUS, Are you 🍒picking & Dread Scotting thru 21st Century?🗽⚖️
Sincerely,
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Invisible, USA
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MAGA: Won't somebody PLEASE think of the SHAREHOLDERS?!?!?
but no way that Republicans would allow the US Military to honor dead kindergartners. they might have been Trans, or worse, liberals.
Yeah come on now.
I didn't stop with Biden yes' but it has happened a fuck less in this country
More money for bullets
More profits to be made off of murdered kids — SCORE!
is that even being an
'American' cannot be
regarded any longer
as so much a position
as it is a predicament.
"Yes, of course, I'm terribly sorry. Um....this is just the "shooting" section. "Shooting UP" is over there."
"Aha. Of course. Thank you...."
but Merry Christmas!
Now where's my Check from Remington????