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[–] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Every day a new mass shooting. But the availability/access to guns is totally NOT the problem, right?

[–] lilmann 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"We need more bad people with guns to give good people with guns a purpose." - people who sell guns

[–] remington 8 points 10 months ago
[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"But if we outlaw guns, only the bad people will have guns because they don't care about the law anyway!!"

[–] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

Lol it's all projection. "Of course they'd break the law and have illegal weapons, that's what I'd do!"

[–] Domiku 9 points 10 months ago

Nowhere to be found on the New York Times homepage, but they have plenty of space to discuss the inane Claudine Gay happenings.

[–] t3rmit3 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

We have a country where the wealth class and political class work hand-in-hand to degrade social systems, impede community-organizing and mutual aid, destroy education, embrace fascism over democracy, and remove opportunities for advancement from everyone but their own children...

...and people wonder why we have a society that is so sick that children are lashing out with self-destructive violence?

And of course that violence and social degradation is then used as justification to further erode rights and autonomy.

[–] remington 2 points 10 months ago
[–] Plume 3 points 10 months ago

We're 5 days in 2024. This has already happened twice.