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.
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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.
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Whoa, I like this site. Just noticed new replies pop up automatically rather than having to hit F5. Well done guys!
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I thought surely, surely after Sandy Hook. But nope, country as a whole puts guns ahead of kids.
I held out some hope after Newtown just because of the response.
I also thought maybe a chance after some Republicans were shot at that softball practice.
But yeah I don’t even think for a second this will be the time we will do gun control. I’m to the point I consider it a losing issue.
And yeah it depresses me so hard I just said doing something about gun violence is a losing issue.
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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.
44 sec youtube of someone at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in spoilers as you hear shots fired.
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.
When your scared of the boogieman, no way someones taking his gun.
Gonna x-post this here. Someone must have blown a lot of cash on things that are not paying off.
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1155679797223182337?s=19
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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.
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Any news on who the shooter is? I’m assuming it’s another 4chan loser.
Shooter ID’d: Man behind Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting identified
This other source has some quotes from his social media and stuff, including him plugging an old white supremacist book by saying
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.
I’m thinking it will take multiple successful assassination attempts against Republican politicians to move the needle. Obviously, I kinda don’t advocate that, but I know it’s the direction my mind will go if I ever lose loved ones to gun violence.
Nah, that wouldn’t even do it. Remember that softball game a few years ago? If anything, they doubled down on gun rights.
Yeah, nothing changing after Sandy Hook was the end of hope for me. 26 fucking kindergartners man. If that doesnt change things NOTHING will. The only chance to do anything is Dem President + executive order + emergency declaration. Maybe once we actually just go and REQUIRE the guns to be turned in and the violence drops by orders of magnitude, people might finally get it.
Not enough casualties, unfortunately.