Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.

• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We have tried nothing and we are all out of options.

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  • folkrav@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨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”

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  • rainynight65@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah c’mon, give them credit where it’s due. They didn’t try nothing - thoughts and prayers were tried in abundance.

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    • folkrav@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hot take: “thoughts and prayers” and “doing nothing” are the exact same thing

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      • rainynight65@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I didn’t think I needed the /s, but here goes:

        /s

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    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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• Hux@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    South Park had a great episode about this.

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