Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide.

• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For the US, I think it would be so slow at catching up to more developed standards of gun control that it would be generational and not a matter of years. It’s not so much the laws that are currently in place that’s the issue, it’s the lack of regulation that’s created such an ingrained culture that’s going to take a long time to evolve. So, technology like this would stil definitely be utilised in the future.

  My thoughts, anyway. And honestly, I didn’t even realise there was another school shooting in the US. Internationally, I guess it just gets covered less and less because it’s not really news anymore, just expected and assumed.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think it even made the news here in NZ, if it did it was just one brief story.

    Mass shootings are a matter of routine in the states.

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    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I first saw it on salon under a story about Steve Doocy being an idiot. They barely make the news on the US unless there’s some extra aspect that makes it unusual.

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• obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hmmm, one involves fleecing school district funding in a grift, the other reduces profits to armaments manufacturers.

  I really can’t figure this out! How is it possible to know?

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How is this a grift? The system worked as intended, did it not?

    And yes, changing the culture and mentality of an entire nation is the harder option. Do you really think otherwise?

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    • obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, let’s spend money on a system that only helps people in a specific set of buildings only during specific parts of the day and year when the building are occupied, rather than doing anything that would help society at large, at all times and anywhere in the country.

      Like I said, it’s impossible to know what the right thing to do here, much less actually do it.

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You genuinely are an utter moron.

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