Another Mass Shooting

[Miisa]

Originally Posted by Ari

White young adult male shooter so clearly mental illness, nothing to be done, including fixing mental illness. As we know the constitution grants all white men the right to ruin it for others when angry.

Wealthy suburb, nothing to be done but hire more security next year. I can’t wait till you can tell the wealth of the area by what big name defense contractor they’ve hired for their event.

If your holiday doesn’t have a mass shooting, is it really a holiday?

There is something we can do: ban Pride parades. Obviously they trigger people and we shouldn't expose vulnerable minds to such trauma and corruption.

[Ari]

I haven’t really kept up with this because why bother at this point.

White affluent man, check.
Known to the community, check
known by police for violence, check.
Maga, check.
Legal guns, check.
Police on every street with armor and weapons but didn’t stop attack, check.
taken alive, check.
Conservatives concerned about how this will make them look and already sowing doubt, harassing survivors. Check.

[Ensign Steve]

I heard it was the marijuana use that sent him over the edge.

[Stormlight]

no, no, no it's actually video games. Haven't had that in a while.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

A good metaphor for America's approach to its gun epidemic pic.twitter.com/lw9LDhPcsL

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) July 13, 2022

[mickthinks]

Six-year-old girl and parents shot dead while camping | BBC

A clear demonstration of the good guy with a gun stopping the bad guy with a gun ... wait ... why are we against gun controls again?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Well that was a way to wake up.
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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Thanks for the info

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[JoeP]

Normal activities? Back to eating poutine and saying sorry?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

And talking shit about Americans and British.

[JoeP]

Entirely normal.

[specious_reasons]

The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer. Now It's Killing Us. - The Atlantic

The old responsible industry prohibitions were gone. Everywhere I looked, I saw advertisements that played on the new fear-based tactical culture. In the final months of my gun-industry career, I snapped photos to document the change, such as is evident in this banner from the tactical-gear maker Viktos, above a main entrance to the 2020 SHOT Show. Its combination of fire from a modern AR-15 and a Revolutionary War soldier is a historical mash-up we saw repeated with spooky exactitude at the January 6 Capitol riot a year later, when insurrectionists acted on a “1776 Returns” plan and waved come and take it AR-15 flags.

[Ari]

Nothing is going to change until shootings happen to a majority of people in power and between a group of children and bank execs the most recent American shooting with a rifle legally purchased for the attack ‘luckily’ happened to rich people who were friends with the KY governor.

While I presume this will just mean that execs will allow themselves to zoom in to all meetings while behind guarded doors, these are the people that need to be affected before we hear anything more than thoughts and prayers, because they just don’t care until it happens to them.

It would be darkly amusing if the drive to profit off guns during the pandemic led to corporations who treat people like animals worried about firing workers due to how easily angered and armed they are. Job security through threats of mass murder seems quite american as well.