RE: El Paso Shooting (Yes, Again)
August 5, 2019 at 6:51 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2019 at 6:57 am by Amarok.)
(August 5, 2019 at 4:33 am)ReptilianPeon Wrote: The USA needs to address the reasons why people want to kill other people. I believe the US system is incapable of addressing the reasons why people want to kill each other. People talk about restricting guns all the time and I see far less emphasis on the reasons why people want to shoot people in the first place.This is a very good point
When that incel shoot up that yoga class I didn't really hear anybody saying "this is entitlement culture, that man felt entitled to a woman's body". Yet when people want an increase to the minimum wage in the USA so they can actually earn enough to do apparently crazy things like simply feed themselves this is somehow "entitlement culture". The media in the USA is so afraid of calling out the right-wing terrorists that empowers the right-wing. When Ben Shapiro went on the BBC he was shocked that in the UK they actually do real journalism!

Quote:Because 99.99999 percent of handguns are NOT used in mass shootings.Which is aside the point as that would 1% (a number you pulled out of your ass) are
Quote:The assumption that they stopped mass shootings by finding these guns is ludicrous.Nope unless you can 100% tell me none of those guns will be used for nefarious purposes . Your just doing more downplaying .
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