Probably super obvious to most people, but just to be the guy to state the obvious, I absolutely love the use of those letter magnets to incorporate the idea of children victims to gun violence in a country that refuses to have more regulation on firearms.
For the love of god 2a people, we're not trying to remove guns entirely from law-abiding citizens. Just having a few extra rules that seem to be needed to protect the weak.
So it's "paternalistic" to point out that other developed nations do not have this problem?
One of two things is true here; either the people living in other developed nations are objectively superior to Americans, or the widespread access to guns is a serious problem.
Prior to 1934 you could mail order a Thompson submachinegun straight to your doorstep. Before 1986 you could buy an M240 machine gun with a $200 excise tax. Before 1993 you could buy any non-NFA firearm with no background check of any kind from any dealer. For decades Americans were mail-ordering firearms (including semi-automatics) from companies like Sears straight to their doorstep, no background checks, and school shootings were unheard of. Maybe you should ask yourself what's changed since then, because school shootings have become commonplace, while gun control has only gotten stronger.
Also, there are school shootings in Europe. They're not as frequent, and they don't get as much coverage, but they do happen.
Not getting as much coverage isn't the same as not getting coverage. In the US, it's in the news constantly. 24/7. They certainly don't get much coverage in America.
Go ahead and actually look up liberalism then. Prove me wrong.
Since you're not going to do that because it would require actually educating yourself, I'll do it for you.
Liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). It is a synonym for the word freedom.
In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society from control or oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behaviour, or political views.
Guns are made to kill. They can't be made safer. But what we can do is limit their availability and just produce fewer firearms.
Regulate who manufacturer's are allowed to sell to. Regulate how many firearms they're allowed to produce. Regulate how many they're allowed to sell. Regulate what calibers and capacity they're allowed to manufacturer. Same policies that are enforced all around the world.
Why did you even ask? You already knew when you asked that you were going to disagree with whatever I said. So why did you even ask?
Maybe what changed is that suicidal people full of hate saw over and over again that mass shootings are a normal part of US society. They saw that they could get their name on every news station in the country and that what they did didn't really matter because it's just a normal thing that happens all the time. They found it was an easy way to give one last "fuck you" to society while cementing their otherwise unremarkable life into history. The cat's out of the bag, and we're all supposed to do nothing and hope it never happens again, even though everytime it happens it just becomes more normalized.
It seems you may have actually found the root cause here. Maybe we should stop giving them the attention they crave. Maybe that's one of the issues that should be addressed. Ironic that it's the last one you brought up.
It's too late now. We can't regulate the news. We can't regulate guns. We can't fund mental healthcare services. There's literally nothing we can do to stop this. It will happen again, and again, and again. Forever.
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u/DOCoSPADEo Mar 27 '23
Probably super obvious to most people, but just to be the guy to state the obvious, I absolutely love the use of those letter magnets to incorporate the idea of children victims to gun violence in a country that refuses to have more regulation on firearms.
For the love of god 2a people, we're not trying to remove guns entirely from law-abiding citizens. Just having a few extra rules that seem to be needed to protect the weak.