Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Captain's Chair, CA
Not happy to say this, but the Rightist are winning here. Whenever there's a mass shooting, they drop their thoughts + prayers, claim it's disrespectful to the victims and their families to talk about gun regulations now and that holds until we roll into the next shooting and the cycle starts over.
Texas School Official Leaves Gun in Student Bathroom
A 3rd grader in Rising Star found a gun the superintendent left in a school bathroom. Superintendent Robby Stuteville confirms the 3rd grader found the gun back in January and notified a teacher immediately without moving or touching the weapon.
Stuteville walked through the incident, explaining that both he and the school principal open carry on campus. When he was using the restroom, Stuteville says he took the gun off and placed it in a stall, where it was then left unattended until it was found by the student.
"There was never a danger other than the obvious," Stuteville claimed.
Shooting in Nashville at a private christian school left three children under 10 dead and three adults. The adult shooter was a former student.
The shooter was able to legally purchase seven firearms, a few of them assault-weapon style rifles, what was used to carry out the murders.
President Biden once again called on the Republican-controlled House to pass gun reform, Republicans responded with a hard "no" via their standard "now is not the time to talk a bout politics, we need to send our thoughts and prayers to the victim's families".
Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Captain's Chair, CA
Shooter also had a history of documented emotional problems. But we can't even have Red Flag laws because it makes the Rightist slide down their slippery slope while going "Rreeeeeee!!!!" all the way down.
What's also disgusting is that the Right are hyper focused on the fact that the shooter was allegedly a transman and are exploiting these deaths to further their anti-trans war, labelling all trans people as "murderers", "terrorists", "demons" etc., with some pushing the idea that no trans people should be allowed access to firearms. Which is something you never see them do if the shooter is a white, Christian male. Then it's a "lone wolf" that has no affiliation with them, even when the shooter's manifesto directly mirrors a bunch of Right-wing pundit talking points.
The issue is the psychotic gun culture in the US. It's the common denominator every damn time, regardless of the background, identity or ideology of the shooter. And, yes, guns themselves don't kill people. But they make it a hell of a lot easier for people to kill people.
When your country is the overwhelming leader of gun-related deaths across a variety of categories, you need to re-evaluate how they fit into your society.
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You mean the same way Adam Poe searches far and wide for abuse in the church to push an agenda against the church? Ignoring the fact that many of the clergy who are child molesters also happen to be gay, and so this says as much about gays as it does about religion (As a man in Germany proved from documented evidence and was convicted of slander against lgbt, in spite of using irrefutable facts)
But no bad comparison because this narrative does not exist, the mainstream right is NOT attacking Trans people. Maybe extremists are, that hardly reflects the right proper.
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I don't see what the big deal is, school shootings are natural. The third chapter of the Adventures of the Israelites has God-sama command Abraham-kun to sacrifice his son Isaac-chan. Chapter five has Moses slaughter children ahead of his political rally.
It's all right there, just read the Bible Manga. God loves dead children. School shooters are American. God loves America. QED.
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What's also stupid to me is people on the Right trying to just focus on mental illness (or minorities or even unlocked side doors if they get the opportunity) and claim guns aren't the problem.
Yet mental illness isn't exclusive to the US. It's a something that's present within the human population of every country. And yet the US is unique with regards to the amount of mass shootings and such that take place. So, what's the difference then? The amount and ease of access people have to firearms in the United States, as well as the culture among many there (particularly on the Right) that glorifies gun use.
Now, will stronger regulation and restrictions immediately stop all gun violence? No. But it will immediately stop some and over time even more, as the amount of guns in circulation, both legal and illegal, will decrease.
But the gun nuts don't want to hear it.
__________________ Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
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Odd target for a random shooting, as opposed to a robbery.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Feb 14th, 2023 05:36 PM
