‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

Same thought. I see this headline and think, "Oh no..."

Young teenagers murdering people. So crazy.

Same here. Had to look up the story. Ugh...

You'd think I'd be numb to it by now, but my heart breaks every time.

You can just assume that since it's a day ending in "y" there has been another mass shooting in America

But why would it happen at all?

What they need to do is make guns gay, then watch how quick they're banned.

America has a gun problem but it also has a fear problem.

They need more regulation. It's easier to get a gun then a drivers license.

The reality of it is we know straight up banning guns is the only way to truly solve this problem. The issue is we like to pretend it is some super complex issue with all this nuance that can only be approached by the best and brightest, but the right people to put that policy together just haven't come along yet. We tell ourselves that because the truth is we are totally okay with a certain amount of faceless death as long as we can have our toys and we don't have to clean up the mess.

We've been arguing about this in the US for my whole life, and I'm not young. At this point it should be obvious neither of the two faces of our government has any interest in doing anything more about guns than using the topic as a wedge to divide us and as a source of campaign funding. So you want to ban guns. Is that the hill you want your children to die on? How about instead of insisting that's the only way, we enact a solution that keeps kids alive and that both the red and blue team can agree on, like, say, mandatory armed guards (a paid job, not volunteers) at school entrances. Is it in conflict with our ideal vision of a peaceful society? Maybe, but it works. Other countries have done it and it stopped school shootings entirely.

That would never happen because whichever party does it, they can kiss goodbye to victory forever.

And as an American, all i have to say is

Sure, we will just march on up to the Capitol amidst all the lobbiers and gun obsessed GoP fascists and tell them, "Please stop, someone from lemmy who isn't even American says that's all we need to do."

If you aren't American, keep your mouth shut on what we "should" do. Many, many of us are tired of these shootings, and on top of it all, our democracy is at stake, along with our ways of life to boot. Our country is failing, and all we can do is VOTE. It's not that fucking easy. Stop accusing our entire country of this bullshit like we want it. The majority of us aren't like this.

I think I've read a story or two about the "anti-shooter" getting shot for being at a massacre with a weapon drawn, like some kind of murderer.

I'm Georgia they can be.

... Nestlé...

But surely it's proper for one company to control the entire food supply. I mean you wouldn't want to be a communist and not let the free market do as it wishes

/s in case the italics and words aren't enough

also fire every single cop in the country and replace them all with people who actually believe that they're supposed to protect and serve.

Yea, you could totally win a gun fight against the US military 🙄

That is such stupid logic. "Oh people want to violently overthrow the government? I want them to easily get guns" The fascists should be the exact reason you want to have strict gun control

So much to unpack here. Your last 2 paragraphs are lucid, but the previous 3 are unhinged.

Pretty sure there's a school shooting in the US nearly every day now... We only hear about them during election season

Locally they will very much be remembered.

be me
doom scrolling international news on my death bed in 2064
this article shows up
goodbye my old friend

Maybe don't go around posting pictures of the kid.

Correlation is not causation.

what if he was a bad guy with no gun yesterday

Before we say the words “gun control,” can we think about the poor ammunition assembly line workers, who have to work mandatory overtime due to the demand, each time those words are said?

It's telling that they even mention politicizing it. Like... why would something like that even need to be "political" at all, unless...?

I imagine it's just a form they fill out with a few fields: city, number of shooters, number of dead, number of wounded. The rest of it stays the same each time.

It says there are no videos in the playlist. They have been removed? Where can I still watch them?

On track for record profits this year! This is a wonderful graph for a business but horrible for what it actually is. Fuck the GOP and fuck the 2nd amendment. The 2nd amendmenters don't think of the children, just the fetus.

We as a people, culture, and society are frankly too selfish and horrible to do something as decent as that. Not our fault, we've been and continue to be conditioned by the owners to be a nation of irredeemable wannabe sociopaths at each other's throats, but the fact remains that's who we are.

Enjoy the cesspool, where greed/sociopathy is our only practiced value, and watching our poorie kids kill poorie kids (because this never happens at the nepo baby private schools) is our national pastime.

Not like we became horrible or anything, we always were. We're a nation built by slaves owned by religious zealots on top of a genocide(of people who lived in homeostasis with the earth instead of actively setting it on fire) who's top exports are tools of volume murder and blueprints for other nations to better exploit their citizenry for their elite's private profit, not like there was ever any grace to lose.

Oh but hey the Axis sunk our pacific fleet once and we fought back after we were attacked which apparently makes us virtuous heroes(?) or something.