Unless it's a mass shooting, you've got about a 30 mile radius before you wouldn't hear about it. Most 'hood' shootings are mentioned in passing unless the victim is a bystander.
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Good on her, must be so frustrating for you guys over there who aren’t gun nuts. Problem is, there are that many guns now that it would take a generation to get them all back in, if they did change any laws.
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Yeah, and thats not a lot. Should be front page news, cause its beyond tragic.
So so sad.
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Meanwhile the press over here is having a go at the new Met Police Commissioner because he said that London was one of the safest capital cities in the world, after a 13% decrease in homicides last year (to 103).
Imagine having a basement full of guns and ammo whilst everyone else turns theirs in. Give it 12 months and your pension is topped up neatly. Part of the issue is, if they change the law and confiscate all guns starting in one months time, imagine the rush on the stores between now and then. Fear has whipped so many into a frenzy that all they can see or think about it the boogieman, and hiding in that demographic are those with the bad intentions to want firearms for active purposes beyond 'home defence'. No easy way out now. 'Escape from new york' would be interesting if they could manage it I s'pose...
As an American, I can understand why others feel this way. It's a tragedy, on a global scale, that one of our biggest exports is horrific news stories about guns and murder. Can't remember who posted this here, but they said that given we didn't do anything after Sandyhook, we'd pretty much never do anything. I hate that this has largely come true.
If I had pre-twitter Elon Musk-level money, I would try to ensure (within reason) that each Sandyhook survivor moved to a different state and ran for federal office. And try to do that with every child/teenager who's experienced a mass shooting. We need a mass political movement from those who have experienced it.
Didn't think of this and don't know the details, but sadly true. The "colored this way" and "whites only" signs that used to mark theaters/swimming pools/buses, etc., here in the 50's have largely been removed but they emblematically still hold in the courts. <--this is not a novel observation, as it is literally the entire reason critical race theory exists (despite idiots on the right trying to misconstrue it like the boogey man, similar to trans people).
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No, sorry. They "invisibly" exist, if you know what I mean. Will edit.
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Its so strange from an outsiders perspective in so many ways, because you Americans are by and large lovely, friendly people. Us Europeans like joking about goofy Trump supporters and all that crap, but, at least in Norway, we like yall, and its really sad to see this country falling apart at the seams with violence, conspiracy, extreme poverty, lack of education and so on. Im not sure what you could do to change the culture of volence tho, when half the US thinks the answer to gun violence is more guns. Its very sad to watch, and scary to see how some of those ideas leak through the internet into Europe.
Others on here have said it many times and I’ve said it a number of times on here myself. If you won’t change the laws when 20 children of 6 or 7 are shot in what should be a safe place then they will never change.
What is so crazy about this shooting is that the child “knew what they were doing”. Obviously a 6 year old doesn’t actually realise the consequences of what they’ve done but from the sounds of things he took the gun into school and intentionally used it against the teacher. There are lots of stories in the US about young kids accidentally shooting people (which is sad enough). But this is on another level
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That's very much intentional on the part of the NRA. For years they've pushed the narrative that "liberals are coming to take your guns" so hard that now nothing drives guns sales more than mass shootings. It's exactly what they, and the manufacturers/sellers they lobby for want.
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