Twenty first graders got murdered and we couldn’t even get background checks. Absolutely hopeless.
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If anything, it’s understating things:
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Also from that Wikipedia page:
There have been THREE separate mass shootings in 2021 in Indianapolis where at least 4 people died.
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CNN White House reporter posted it
https://twitter.com/katesullivandc/status/1383044239387418629?s=21
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I think CNN is using four dead victims as the standard for what constitutes a “mass murder”.
I mean, what’s the cutoff point otherwise? 4 people killed by the same gunman at the same time seems pretty mass to me.
Hell, this shit is so bad I hadnt even heard about the Stockton one and I live less than 100 miles from there
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Seeing that map, I suspect Johnny Cash is somehow involved.
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Texas House just passed the same thing.
Perhaps we should do away with driver’s licenses as they are just as burdensome.
Hey media, the only story here is “Republicans oppose any form of gun control, even for people whose own parents turn them in for being likely terrorists.”
Guess this is the plan the far-right has. Lone wolf chaos every day with Trump out of office.
Every single fucking day. Every once in a while my rage towards Republicans dips to like 98/100, shame on me for ever letting that happen.
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Is this three in 24 hours now? I’ve lost track.
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Is it true that metal detectors are commonplace in US high schools? Periodically media here has “you say tomayto we say tomato” fluff pieces about foreigners coming to Australia and how it differs from their home countries. One the other day had an American being like “no metal detectors in schools, weird”
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about 10% IIRC.
This is what I’m finding as well. So I wouldn’t say “commonplace”, but I wouldn’t say “uncommon” either, especially in urban areas.
Well, it’s uncommon enough that it would be weird for an American (especially one travelling to Australia) to say this: