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But she could buy an Ak-47 tomorrow if she wanted to…

• mindslight 4y ago
  ... and just might decide to do so and go on the implied shooting spree, after being capriciously shunned by society. A widespread mental health crisis caused by crushing bureaucracy, extractive economy, and hyperreal media saturation is the real problem underlying mass shootings. But it's apparently much easier to push for the country-scale analog to a padded room rather than coming to terms with why our society is so sick.
  • dotcoma 4y ago
    Not sure if banning assault weapons means transforming the country to a padded room. Feel like you want to join the militia to defend freedom? Do something useful: hop on a plane and go to Ukraine.
    • akomtu 4y ago
      • 2022whoknew2 4y ago
    • mindslight 4y ago
      I'm not a gun fetishist. I just think that focusing on inanimate tools generally makes for a red herring. It's essentially grasping for a technological solution to a social problem.
      • dotcoma 4y ago
        Imho both are real problems, the fact that guns — and assault weapons! — are too easy to buy (easier than a can of beer, if you’re 18!) and the fact that many people feel alienated and nobody is providing free or at least accessible care to them. I’m not sure what the UK or Australia did about the second problem after they had horrible massacres years ago, but I know for sure that buying guns is now hard in both countries, and that buying AK-47s is out of the question.
• tepitoperrito 4y ago
  She could also be a teacher('s aide from TFA) tomorrow. She appealed and won removal from the list.
• deleted 4y ago
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