We banning guns yet? Alright see yall next mass shooting
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
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Where were all the good people with guns ensuring that peace would erupt instead?
Well you see the proliferation of firearms always benefits the violent criminal over the heroic defender. Always. It's a losing race.
Even back to the Wild West, places like Tombstone and Dodge City would come to implement gun control laws because, surprise, being mutually armed doesn't help when the other guy has both the element of surprise and willingness to fire first.
But if it fails in real life, try, try again!
Not risking their lives to help you. They're in it for themselves because they're scared. They're afraid of brown people because they're told to be. They're puppets to the propaganda and get their info from fox "news"
On average, the rate of a vigilante saving the day is one in 7,000. There's no record of the number of shootings caused by bad vigilantes, though, so we don't know if that 1:7000 is a net-positive.
Great stat.
The same folk are gonna win the lotto, tho'!
Alright see ya Tuesday man.
You may have to wait 'til Tuesday* for the next TV-publicized mass shooting, but it wasn't twelve hours before the next actual mass-shooting event occured:
- 1 death and 7 surviving victims of a shooter on 2523 W Broadway, Louisville KY USA 40211, with no arrest shown
Note that the mass shooting in Arkansas is almost a Mass Killing, as a 3rd victim has now died.
In general, there are on average more than one mass shooting every day in America, and often a high number in a day. On the 15th of June, barely a week ago, there were SIX mass shootings - Cincinatti, Southfield MI, Rochester MI, Detroit, RoundRock, Tuskegee - and 4 of the 51 total victims died. SIX MASS SHOOTINGS reported by newsmedia IN A DAY, but the record I think is 8.
Anyway, I just came to say you may not need to wait four days for the next one, that 4 hours is usually plenty. 'Murica.
*Voices carry.
I can't wait that long!
Probably won't have to.
Yeah. It can happen as often as every three hours.
Over thier dead bodies!
Where wolf?
And over there. And a couple more over there. And one there too.
over there. And a couple more over there. And one there too.
'Summer' bodies.
I used to be anti-gun, until I found out that Canadians own guns at the same rate as TEXANS. We Americans are losing our fucking minds. We're kept at each other's throats to distract us from the fact that the 1% are fucking us all over.
Look at the regs surrounding gun ownership in Canada.
Not the same animal at all.
Plenty of countries allow guns, but the rules for their use and ownership are far more restrictive than the relative free for all we have in the US.
We didn't use to ... until the NRA and America's 2nd Amendment defenders started pushing across our border. Source
I don’t understand. Are you assuming every person in California is a Democrat and every person in Texas is a Republican? Those are the most populous states in the country. You are looking at a huge chunk of the country, of course they both have tons of guns. Every state has tons of guns.
The stat that I had read was that on average Texans own guns at a rate of 4 per person, so for every person that doesn't own any, there has to be someone taking up the slack. The joke is that Texans are a distillation of what America is to the rest of the world: loud, obnoxious, and absolutely sure they're right.
The point I was trying to make is that even though Canadians own a shitload more guns per capita, they have far less gun violence than us.
One law enforcement officer was among those wounded, Arkansas State Police said.
Maybe if enough of their heroic boys in blue that they salute with their special flag are wounded, we'll start being able to talk about guns like adults.
Or politicians. And let me be clear to the mods and admins I am not advocating for this I am simply stating a fact.
“What gun problem are you talking about? I only see a freedom problem, and that’s the best type of problem to have!”
that man gave a lot of bullets their freedom that day.
Tots and Pears.