JD Vance says that school shootings are just a "fact of life."
I wonder if all this rage and hopelessness is starting to find a more productive outlet.
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
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If the choice is between school shootings or CEO shootings, the latter is preferrable. I'd take that trade even if I were a CEO, but I doubt most CEO's would.
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JD Vance says that school shootings are just a “fact of life.”
Then it's logical that preventing politician shootings should be budgeted similarly. Time to defund the entire secret service as part of those 75% government employee cuts. School shootings being resourced differently than oligarch shootings is a violation of the equal protections clause of the constitution, and therefore an illegal waste of our tax money.
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The children should consider working harder to increase shareholder value…
Layoffs increase shareholder value and this one gave their stock a boost.
Those hard working school shooters are doing their best to promote growth in the funeral home industry. Won't anybody think of the jobs!?!
CEOs not schools
I smell a bumper sticker.
"CEO shootings are a fact of life"
There's another one for you.
Oh absolutely. Start letting the gun violence get too close to home and the rich will force that legislation through overnight
A reminder that California's famously strict gun laws started as a Republican reaction to black people owning guns and forming citizen militias to protect their neighborhoods from criminals and oppressive government thugs.
Indeed, Ronnie Racist Fucking Reagan and a senator who panicked when the armed Black Panthers(?) walked into the State Capitol building during a protest. Before that, California was open carry, locked and loaded.
Literally where California's strictness on handguns originated.
Exactly this. But you wont see one gun from rich people, while the rest of us have to mandatory turn in our guns. There are no laws for people that can throw money at the courthouse to let them do what they want. In america its only "legal" to do illegal shit if your rich
I keep seeing evidence that the rich don't give 1% of a shit about the rest of us, but I keep sending myself "thoughts and prayers" that that's not totally true and we don't have an open class war going on in the US.
Many school shooters talk about wanting to be seen, wanting fame/notoriety, and so on. With the huge positive response to this, it wouldn't be too surprising to see copycats. "If I do this, people will remember me and love me for it."
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78 school shootings in 2024
77 more in the next 25 days could be a challenge
Would probably be followed by a wave of CEO resignations though, if such was accomplished.
Where’s the problem in that?
"When Americans put their minds to it, they can accomplish anything"
It won’t happen. The government will spare no expense to protect CEOs. Same cannot be said for our children.
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Spare no expense <> gun control
Gun control is actually not expensive at all. Instead they would probably grant secret service access to billionaires, or something like that.
Ah sorry, I get you now
Or, gun ownership will just become more expensive.
Capital can always afford more guns / storm troopers. That's been the nature of the state since forever.
But those hired guns have limits. They have to protect their oligarchs at all times, a potential shooter only needs one time.
"Today we were unlucky, but remember we have only to be lucky once, you will have to be lucky always"
Even I have my limits.
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12 more and you get a free sub
I love rushing with SMGs
The immediate citation got me.
Thank you.
Motherfucker. This happened today.
The NRA would scream about it and MAGA would turn it into demonizing the rich; “y’all can afford bodyguards!”
They can take our guns, but they can never take our rusty dull guillotines
Nah let's not let them take the guns from the working class.
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"Now is not the time to focus on solutions to CEO shootings, we're thinking and praying, and then we just need to move on... As then it won't be time to look in the past."
78? Really? What are we qualifying, “school” as THESE days???
Sarcasm, if that wasn’t implied.
You're not wrong to question this. "Gun Violence Archive" labels any shooting (as in literally any time a gun goes off) on school property a "school shooting". Some teacher ices themself in the parking lot? School shooting. Some gang kids blast each other in the yard at 1am? School shooting. Someone pops off a negligent discharge that doesn't hit anyone? School shooting.
CNN has tweaked this formula by only including times someone besides the shooter actually got shot, so a bit better than usual but still a useless number that we can't use to make informed decisions.
I know you're kidding but....
SCC Student Hurt After Dropping Firearm
And this
https://www.wtok.com/2024/12/03/mcc-campus-police-investigate-tuesday-morning-shooting/
The person who was shot is a student at MCC, but it is unknown if they were on campus to attend class.
MCC Police say this is a targeted attack and there is no danger to the public.
But yea totally a school shooting.... it's bad data like this is the reason most people ignore these bullshit headlines.
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