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Why are comments like this exact quote being posted everywhere?
by firesteelrain 1y ago
Why are comments like this exact quote being posted everywhere?
- yacthing 1y agoIt's a form of "I told you so". It's insensitive, but probably appropriate given the importance of moving forward gun control efforts.
- typeofhuman 1y agoGun control efforts never prevent gun crime.
- yacthing 1y ago[flagged]
- faku812 1y ago[flagged]
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- yacthing 1y ago[flagged]
- idontwantthis 1y agoShow me a knife that can kill at 200 yds.
- bobsomers 1y agoIt's pretty hard to kill 40 people in 5 seconds with a knife.
- cosmicgadget 1y ago> While we recognize that assault weapon legislation will not stop all assault weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.
- dpkirchner 1y ago[flagged]
- firesteelrain 1y agoHe was a commentator and a right to articulate his views. He didn’t deserve to be murdered
- FireBeyond 1y agoKirk felt that preventable gun deaths were an acceptable cost to the continuation of the Second Amendment. This time, it was he that fell victim to a preventable gun death. No more, no less.
- laverya 1y agoEven California and Hawaii don't ban hunting rifles. Same with Australia and the UK. Can you name a single country that totally bans the ownership of all firearms and enforces it? Would you like to live there? (The rifle used isn't known yet, but only one shot was fired)
- twixfel 1y agoOK but these assassinations an assassination attempts are happening in the US, not the UK.
- laverya 1y agoAgreed, but the difference in the use of rifles in assassination attempts between the US and UK/EU/AUS/etc can't purely be because of a lack of gun control in the US if the same rifles are available in those other countries too. (semiautomatic military style rifles like used in the first attempt on Trump are almost always more restricted overseas, but again this was only a single shot and could easily have been from a bolt-action rifle)
- twixfel 1y agoThat's not the whole story though. Whatever weapons are available in the UK, they're far harder to obtain than in the US. It's a mixture of both of these issues. Whenever I visit the USA, what always strikes me quite quickly, is just how many mentally ill people there are literally everywhere just roaming the streets, and how the non-mentally-ill people deal with them. I've only had my life threatened once in my life, and that was when a homeless man threatened to kill me in New York. No big deal in the USA, happens all the time, but quite difficult to understand how you guys accept this "way of life" and just let it be and choose to do nothing about it at all.
- dyauspitr 1y agoBecause it’s ironic since by his own admission his death is is acceptable and not a big deal.
- firesteelrain 1y agoHe was a commentator and a right to articulate his views. He didn’t deserve to be murdered
- dyauspitr 1y agoHe can preach a denial of empathy to others but he deserves our empathy?
- firesteelrain 1y agoEmpathy is not a reciprocal contract. If you only give it to those who already endorse it, you are practicing favoritism, not empathy. Kirk may have rejected empathy, but choosing to extend it to him tests our own principles rather than his.
- dyauspitr 1y agoNo, if you refuse empathy to others then refusing that same empathy to you makes me a better person- an upholder of the social contract.
- firesteelrain 1y agoWhat you describe is reciprocity, not empathy. Empathy is unilateral. If you only extend it to those who extended it first, it stops being empathy and becomes retaliation. Choosing to empathize with someone who denied it is about who you are, not who they were.