Honestly the fact we have enough of these to be able to make distinctions is even more depressing.
“get him away from the video games”
Was the police’s suggestion to the father last year when the kid threatened to do this. I don’t even know what decade I live in anymore.
Yeah, that’s some next level copium. I grew up during Columbine and it was like DOOM made these kids do this. Anecdotal evidence but I’ve played every DOOM game since the 90’s and I’ve never had an inkling to do a mass shooting. Our society is failing these kids in a way we don’t want to actually own up to cuz the finger gets pointed squarely at us.
This is one of those articles that should both be in !theonion@midwest.social and !nottheonion@lemmy.world
Every bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun yesterday.
As a non-American, can I just say: get your shit together and ban guns as you clearly can’t be trusted with them as a country.
Fully expecting to get downvoted by the “but it’s mah hobby” brigade. Get a new hobby, there’s peoples lives at stake.
They need more regulation. It’s easier to get a gun then a drivers license.
And as an American, all i have to say is
Sure, we will just march on up to the Capitol amidst all the lobbiers and gun obsessed GoP fascists and tell them, “Please stop, someone from lemmy who isn’t even American says that’s all we need to do.”
If you aren’t American, keep your mouth shut on what we “should” do. Many, many of us are tired of these shootings, and on top of it all, our democracy is at stake, along with our ways of life to boot. Our country is failing, and all we can do is VOTE. It’s not that fucking easy. Stop accusing our entire country of this bullshit like we want it. The majority of us aren’t like this.
Y’all became a country by rebelling and telling England to fuck off also because of the whole “no taxation without representation”.
Yeah and it’s 2024. Any kind of rebellion risks us getting bodied by our high powered military. We have families.
The reality of it is we know straight up banning guns is the only way to truly solve this problem. The issue is we like to pretend it is some super complex issue with all this nuance that can only be approached by the best and brightest, but the right people to put that policy together just haven’t come along yet. We tell ourselves that because the truth is we are totally okay with a certain amount of faceless death as long as we can have our toys and we don’t have to clean up the mess.
We’ve been arguing about this in the US for my whole life, and I’m not young. At this point it should be obvious neither of the two faces of our government has any interest in doing anything more about guns than using the topic as a wedge to divide us and as a source of campaign funding. So you want to ban guns. Is that the hill you want your children to die on? How about instead of insisting that’s the only way, we enact a solution that keeps kids alive and that both the red and blue team can agree on, like, say, mandatory armed guards (a paid job, not volunteers) at school entrances. Is it in conflict with our ideal vision of a peaceful society? Maybe, but it works. Other countries have done it and it stopped school shootings entirely.
I think the two-party system you’ve got there has got you by the balls. No offence.
No offence taken. You’re right. And one of the few things the two parties cooperate on is working to insure it never changes.
That would never happen because whichever party does it, they can kiss goodbye to victory forever.
