Bleh, it sucks to find out about another school shooting this way. I'm glad they do this though.
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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
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"let's get back to talking about how gay books in the library are ruining our kids' lives!!"
-GOP
What they need to do is make guns gay, then watch how quick they're banned.
Not too hard, the things are often phallic shaped and you gotta stroke its trigger to get it to release its load everywhere. Just saying.
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NRA: If only enough 14 year olds were armed, this could have been prevented...
My opinions about guns have changed over the years. I used to be of the opinion that nobody should have guns in this day and age, what's the point aside from ego boosting and sport.
Then a cheeto puff did a treason on jan6.
I'll give up my guns only after the fascists give up theirs. Non negotiable.
You want to "prevent tragedies"? fund programs for welfare and healthcare. Tax the rich. Break up megacorps like google, albertsons, nestle. Enact and enforce employee protections. Raise the minimum wage. Ban airbnb and heavily tax empty residences. Universal basic income! Did I mention fixing the healthcare system? More that I'm forgetting to list.
Miserable parents make miserable kids, and miserable kids lash out. For the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet, this shouldn't be hard to figure out.
... 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
i have on occasion been accused of being a communist. Usually when I point out that people deserve rights.
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.
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Fuck this is the way I learn there’s been a school shooting!
Pretty sure there's a school shooting in the US nearly every day now... We only hear about them during election season
It's only about one per week, if you average it out over the whole year, including when there is no school.
2022 had 51: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2022/01
If you are just talking about "mass shooting" events, it's closer to 2 events per day in the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2023#List
There is a mass shooting everyday (on average), school shootings are a bit less often.
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This might be the most evergreen article The Onion has ever published.
> be me
> doom scrolling international news on my death bed in 2064
> this article shows up
> goodbye my old friend
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The new face of violent radicalism in the United States: aggrieved, rural, white "Future Farmers of America" Trump kids raised by white, rural, aggrieved Trump parents that don't keep their guns secure.
Edit: yes, he was part of FFA. He was "member of the month" last month.
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It's "funny" that there's conspiracy theories that these are all liberal psyops to force gun control. Surely the deep state would realize by now that no amount of dead children will change people's minds.
If you take away my unfettered access to guns, how will I support the government when they trample the rights of people I don't like? /s
Now I know emotions are all running high, and we’re all shocked and scared by yet another senseless act of violence (or mental illness if white, act of terror if brown). However, now is not the time to start talking about things like “gun control” and “approval lists.” How about we schedule sometime on March 31st around 7:30am EST and we can all sit down for 15 minutes and discuss ways to prevent the next tragedy. However I cannot stress it enough that NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO POLITICIZE THIS.
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?
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Must suck to be the person that has to write this every time. Do you think it's one person or do you think they have to take turns?
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.
Can't believe it's over ten years since John Oliver's Gun Control Trilogy
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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.
A little behind the past couple years actually but there's still 4 months.
This is the 37th time they've had to use this headline. I'm not sure if the repetition makes me more sad, or angry, or if it is now simply becoming numbing. Thirty-Seven. :-(
Our self-inflicted suffering is evergreen.
This is the fault of republicans and their insane, murderous legislation.
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