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The latest is a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, at least 5 wounded, and I saw one report of at least 11. I went there last year. Happy I passed this year.
Maybe when a black guy shoots up a white Christian church in a red state. Maybe. Certainly not hoping for that, but that is about the only scenario I can think of that has any chance of moving the needle.
So I assume at some point a gun nutter will visit this thread.
I have a question for you. I can lock my cellphone with my fingerprint. No one else can use my cellphone unless I unlock it. Why can’t you ammosexuals come up with a gun that does the same thing? The technology is there. So fuck off w/ your “mah freedom” bullshit.
I see we waited until there was a mass shooting to start the Gun Violence in America thread here on the new site and made it all the way to… * checks calendar * …day two.
The only thing that will move the needle is an Emmett Till scenario where a parent shows the gun wounds of an innocent child to the national media. And it will have to be a white affluent child at that. And even that may not be enough.
Our culture is weird. We glorify violence through video games, movies, TV shows, etc.
Yet we don’t actually SEE violence. It’s all sanitized.
I’m not sure where I am on gun control anymore. If I could snap my fingers and make all guns disappear I would but that’s not how it works. And when we have police shooting unarmed minorities and ICE deporting American citizens I don’t think we should be making it harder for people to arm themselves.
One of my best friends is a gun nut. He has a pistol in his bedside table, I asked why he doesn’t get one of those biometric safes that open in a few seconds, his response was “I might need those few seconds”.
I assume his answer to your question would be the same. They really don’t want to give an inch.
It could have been a lot worse - I was reading that police shot and killed the gunman within 2 minutes. Pretty impressive.Obviously really tragic, but when I read things like that I breathe a slight sigh of relief. What could have easily been a 20+ body count is 3.
I can see the idea behind this argument, but I think it’s bad. Police are already over-aggressive because they fear that suspects are armed, and I think the same is true for random non-police individuals who view themselves as unofficial sheriffs. Adding more guns to the mix is just going to make an already bad equilibrium worse imo.
