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Perhaps you should get your information someplace other than lying left wing partisans masquerading as comedians? Here[1] is the actual data. The USA's firearm
by User23 3y ago
Perhaps you should get your information someplace other than lying left wing partisans masquerading as comedians?
Here[1] is the actual data. The USA's firearms homicides are higher than I'd like, but are by no means the world leader.
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-deaths-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death...
- twixfel 3y agoPretty sure they're talking about school shootings, which have been totally normalised in the USA, and arguably now as core a part of USAnian culture as apple pie or baseball.
- gillytech 3y agoSchool shootings in the USA have not been normalized at all. Our institutions and social degradation have caused these mass violence events. We've had an armed populace with very powerful guns for a long, long time. The elevated violence is not date coincident with more guns. Psychotropic drugs are though.
- manuelabeledo 3y ago> The elevated violence is not date coincident with more guns. Psychotropic drugs are though. Most common drugs nowadays were already widely available back in the 70s.
- InSteady 3y agoAnd contrary to conservative / pro-gun talking points, most mass shooters are not mentally ill nor are they on psychotropic drugs. It's a circular kind of logic, "they must be insane to want to shoot a bunch of innocent kids" so therefore they are mentally ill by definition. That's not how mental illness works. By and large they are just sadistic nihilistic pieces of shit who want to live out violent fantasies for kicks before ending their garbage existence.
- User23 3y agoThe overwhelming majority of mass shooters are urban career criminals either actively engaging in some kind of crime or getting in stupid disputes over perceived disrespect. These stories pretty much only show up in local if-it-bleeds-it-leads coverage. The troubled white boy shooting up his school gets a lot of national press, because it fits a narrative the political elite wants to push, but those media darling cases are an absolutely tiny minority of mass shooting events.
- gillytech 3y agoThe latter, the school boys, are nearly to a one on some kind of psychiatric drug.
- manuelabeledo 3y agoEven if that was true, which is not, what kind of scientology BS is this? There is absolutely no proof that psychiatric meds push teens to commit mass shootings.
- User23 3y agoWhat evidentiary standard would that “proof” have to meet to satisfy you? Is there one? If not then you’re just expressing a political belief and not a scientific one.
- manuelabeledo 3y ago> What evidentiary standard would that “proof” have to meet to satisfy you? So, asking for proof of a so far unsubstantiated statement, is a "political belief" now? What did I miss?
- User23 3y ago> What did I miss? Evidentiary standards, it appears. You literally just admitted to not having any.
- foldr 3y agoThe Onion article is talking about mass shooting specifically. And I don't think the map really helps your case here.
- alistairSH 3y agolol ok. The US is better than some of Latin America and Greenland. That’s a low bar.
- jhallenworld 3y agoAlso, at least in Mexico, cartel guns come from the US: https://www.marketplace.org/2023/10/19/how-a-booming-gun-business-in-the-u-s-arms-mexicos-cartels/ https://www.marketplace.org/2023/10/19/how-a-booming-gun-bus... The legal situation there is quite interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Mexico