People are much more focused on trying to stop the next one.
Are they really? What is really being done?
puntyyoke@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because there’s another mass shooting every couple days. It’s hard to care about why one dude did something crazy 7 years ago while bullets are still flying. People are much more focused on trying to stop the next one.
otp@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
A lotta hope. My 3 minutes are penciled in tomorrow at 2pm. Same 3 minutes my legislators spend on it. Gotta have hope!¹
- “Gotta have hope!” is a thing you hear in cancer wards and places where people know in their souls that there is no hope.
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No, there are not mass shooting every couple of days.
When we hear “mass shooting”, we’re all thinking about the Mother Jones and Violence Project numbers shown (hardly conservative sources). 6 for 2021. (And crime is way down since then.)
And if we go with the worst numbers on there, ~4,000, that’s about a month worth of vehicular fatalities, not dead plus injured.
Everyone on here bitches about capitalism and how billionaires control our lives. Everyone is keenly aware that most media outlets have been combined into Sinclair and a few other owners. But when the media presents a steady drumbeat of death and destruction, no one seems to be able to put 2 and 2 together. They want the commoners disarmed.
I don’t have answers, but all I know is that we had plenty of guns around when I was a kid, and yes, AR-15s as well, and this shit wasn’t anything like today.
meatwads_tooth@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Awesome point, yea, the “commoners” need to be disarmed.
So you were around plenty of guns in your childhood? As a child, you knew what an AR-15 was?
Hmmm. It’s almost like children growing up around guns, especially those exposed to rifles as you mentioned, became comfortable and used to them, know how to use them, and where to get them.
Cool graphic you shared in an attempt to justify gun violence. Ml
lung@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Switzerland
Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Disagreed. No one gives a shit about stopping the next one. We’d actually have stricter gun laws if that were true.
Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 7 months ago
*nobody in government.
Kalysta@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A lot of people not in govenment are also working against stopping mass shootings. And the only people who CAN stop this are in the government.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] 7 months ago
It also wasnt a school.
Kalysta@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Except they’r not. They’re focused on blaiming everyone around them while not looking for actual causes. The CDC is banned BY LAW from researching the actual causes, because the NRA knows the answer is going to be mass gun ownership and them instilling a very toxic version of gun culture in this country.
No one is doing anything substantial to stop the next one.
Sekrayray@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Something about the Vegas one (other than total number of fatalities) was so much more sinister. We barely even ever heard about the perpetrator. It’s always seemed bizarre to me.
Not saying we should be giving any media attention to mass killers, but it definitely breaks with the normal media portrayal.
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I agree with all of that, except for the part about people being focused on trying to stop the next one.
If anyone was actually serious about that, we wouldn’t average more than one per day across the U.S.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Focused on trying to stop the next one in every way except restricting guns, or funding mental health care, or reducing hate, or… Well anything that takes more than thoughts and prayers.
What a country.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The mental health care thing is so frustrating.
Let’s enact some gun control laws because most guns used in mass shootings are bought legally.
“No, it’s a mental health issue!”
Well, then let’s fund mental health services and increase access to them.
“No, that’s not my problem.”
Played out again and again. I mean I know it’s all just deflection, but dammit at least try to have a consistent position.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 months ago
We have tried nothing and we are all out of options.
folkrav@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Gotta appreciate how I Googled that phrase, clicked on the first YouTube link, and the very first comment was along the lines of “US conservatives reacting to mass shootings”
rainynight65@feddit.de 7 months ago
Ah c’mon, give them credit where it’s due. They didn’t try nothing - thoughts and prayers were tried in abundance.
folkrav@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Hot take: “thoughts and prayers” and “doing nothing” are the exact same thing
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Are they even doing that tho? Like they talk about it a lot, but because these are children we send to slaughter and watch their teachers bleed out while terrified, I demand to see these thoughts and prayers as long as they are preferred in a way that implies moral support. Appalling.
Hux@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
At some point, a long time ago, we collectively transitioned from viewing mass shootings as an alarming epidemic, to something culturally endemic to our way of life. It’s an effortless rationalization made possible by for-profit news and for-profit politics.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
South Park had a great episode about this.