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

"Lisa, if I didn't have this gun, the king of England could walk right in here and start pushing you around!"

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It's not as funny now that Charlie would do it if he could, with his grubby little hands.

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At least there actually is a king of England now.

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- There hasn't been a King of England since 1707.
  
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"Active Shooter"

It's like reading about a hurricane. Almost a weather phenomenon.

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There are far fewer hurricanes. You also get a couple days warning on most weather events. I take your point though, between waking up to seeing a related push message and seeing this meme I had forgotten about it.

At least it appears nobody died, only 5 injured.

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The key to getting on with life is to have complete and utter disregard for the well-being of your children, family, friends, fellow countrymen and yourself.

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"A man who has nothing to lose, has nothing to fear."

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- “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”. - Benjamin Franklin.
  
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- Sort of. This is more like “A man who cares for nothing, has no reason to care.” These people have everything to lose they just don’t think it will happen to them personally
  
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- That lion is attacking those people but it’s not me doing it therefore by doing nothing to help or prevent it I’m showing them that I care about them.
  
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At least four people were wounded, none critically, in a shooting at Morgan State University in Baltimore on Tuesday, according to authorities, who urged students to take shelter on the campus of the historically Black college.

No one dead, Americans won't care.

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They don't care when someone does die either...

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- Some people actively get mad too when you mention that people died.
  
  "Of course people died, here we go another fucking gun grab wrapped in a sob story. If all THOSE people had guns too it'd have never happened. This is what you get for being unprepared now stfu I'm shopping online for another AR. 🤷"
  
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- People have gone numb as an emotional safeguard. People have lives they're trying to live, and if they fell to pieces every time someone got shot in this country they'd die of dehydration from all the crying.
  
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- There is so much death and cruelty in the world that if someone cares too much they are just bound to wind up depressed. It seems that the majority of people really only care about people that they are acquainted with, or if they witness the terrible thing in person. It's just kind of built into human nature, otherwise we would be in a constant state of grief.
  
  Things like mass shootings bother most empathetic people, in general. It's just that life kind of has to go on, and all they can really do to try and change it is to vote for one of two lesser evils in some local or national election.
  
  The problem is not really with the people. It's with our crappy political system that is controlled by corporate lobbyists. The majority of US citizens don't really seem to have a say. Source: Empathetic person with chronic depression.
  
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Heck, the government doesn't consider it a mass shooting unless there's three people that died! How fucked up is that?

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✅ hbcu

✅ no casualties

✅ Dispute "between two groups"

Had to Ctrl+f to even find it as a bullet point on the CNN front page...

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Fuck you.

-An American

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Well, to be fair, what they meant to say is "There is no way to prevent this while not changing gun law, state of mental healthcare, income inequality in economic classes, or criminal law and policing issues." which is correct statement overall.

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I mean i generally agree with your point and i know its a small detail but it kinda rubs me the wrong way when people always bring up mental health when talking about mass shootings. There isn't much of a link between mental illness and violence despite common belief. And i have ptsd, bipolar and psychosis which are often associated with violence but i and nearly everyone else with these illnesses just these shooters as nazi assholes. I don't believe you had any wrong intentions or anything and i believe that healthcare is a human right, but i thought i should clarify.

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- So you don't think a lot of these mass shooters went with untreated and ignored mental illness which sprouted in to things worse than most people could ever understand and it was too late? It's a huge issue that these people would show signs beforehand and nobody did anything about their mental health or bullying.
  
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- The gun crowd bring it up only to do nothing about it anyway. It's just something to blame, they don't want to fund healthcare, education, research and welfare, and lose their scapegoat.
  
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- You do have a fair point on problem of association. I don't think diagnosed mental condition have significant prediction power either. Instead, I believe that occasional mental healthcare counselling on people who we find to be normal will be the one that improve this situation.
  
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That title is what the Onion (a satirical/parody news site) uses every time there is a major mass shooting in America.

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"We've tried nothin' and we're all out of ideas!"

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For those that don't know the reference, this is traditionally posted each and every time a mass shooting happens in FreedomLand.

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1848971668

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it's also weird to have traditions about it

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- It's weirder that there's a phenomenon that happens particularly in one nation that claims nothing can be done about the phenomenon.
  
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That's the onion. It's a satirical website.

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At this point I'm not whether sure I should be angry, cry, or laugh while crying.

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I hear a bunch of N thing needs to happen, but the question is will that N solution help. The question to ask is, has someone run a study on N solution, and if so what's the next best solution. Gather data like where are the things of interest happening e.g. region of city. Make shore that N solution does not try to fix a symptom and disregard a source problem. Is N thing is symptom there can be many sources which have different solutions.

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Like climate change, this mostly is not an intellectual question. Good answers in theory don't matter if you have a reactionary political establishment that refuses to implement it.

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- Like for climate change bad solutions exist and if people are pushing back you should listen, a solution maby it's not good anoth maby we are spending time getting bad solutions to work when we should work on find new solutions.
  
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Obviously there's a solution! Give underpaid and abused teachers guns and ask them to shoot a teenager with zero followup on mental health for the teacher!

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Genuinely makes me sick how many people have said this to me, that teachers just need to be armed

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- When I had two fellow teachers tell me (not at the same time, like a week apart) that they agreed and wanted their rights respected so they could carry at work, well, I figured it was about time for me to bow out of the profession.
  
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You can take a look at regulations in other countries. They work. Everywhere. There's no need to ask questions, everything was already answered all over the world.

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"‘No Way To Improve This Somewhat Without Excessive Studies And Data Gathering,’ Says Apologist For The Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"

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I've never heard anyone say this... Is there a quote I missed? Was it a conservative asshole?

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