Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?
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@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@pmoncho said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
If not then, I think the parents/adults believe it is for their children's mental protection and will do anything to not let them feel bad. The rest of the planet knows in the long term the mockery is detrimental to their children's future.
As a parent, I think exactly the opposite and I see the toll the constant mockery has on others. Kids know very well when they get "praised" for doing badly.
Our job is to teach our kids "Sticks & Stones" and "Water off a duck's back".
A person's dignity and integrity has nothing to do with what other people think of them.
I don't give a flying fook what others think of me or my opinions and my value as a human being has nothing to do with what others think as well.
The value of the human person is intrinsic to being human. It's what sets us apart from the animals.
We live in a Clown world where peep's feelings trump everything and others need to be psychic or something to not "harm" them or do "violence" to them with words. What poppycock.
Kids will be cruel. It's what they do. How one learns to deal with it is how one can succeed in a world where others will do actual violence to them to get ahead. So, teach them street smarts in person and virtually and always be cautious around others.
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@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Criminals gonna perp. Guns gonna be available to them in perpetuity. That has not changed since perps smuggled spears into "spear free zones" and started slashing.
reminds me of Back to the Future 3 - Tannan with a gun in his hat
Yeah - you're not wrong.
Short of killing all ability to acquire shooting weapons - specific no-shooty weapons zones will always be hit by the criminals.
And even once you make shooty's illegal - it will probably take 30+ years to get enough off the streets before you actually see a decline in violence caused by them.
It's just an impractical battle from the anti-shooty people.
Real world examples say that you can take guns away quickly and effectively. It's been done in large countries before to great effect. You can want or not want gun control of different sorts, that's a different issue. But the ability to take them off of the streets and make them all but impossible to get and easy to identify when rogue (that's the biggest deal) is actually quite easy and the US is anything but an exception to the norm.
Gun related crimes do not go away when firearms are removed from the hands of citizens. Gangs be gangs and perps be perps. The cost of an off market firearm may go up as a result of the restrictions, but they are still available.
That's a solid sound bite, but statistically isn't valid. For two reasons... criminals take the path of least resistance and difficult (and risky) to obtain firearms are proven to be very hard for criminals to get. And when guns are a giveaway that you are a criminal it is way, way easier to stop someone than when carrying weapons is considered part of normal life and you can't identify a threat until it is too late.
In the real world, we know this works, it's already proven the world over. The more guns society has, the more likely they are to be fired. The fewer, the less. That doesn't mean we should go to zero guns or that guns themselves are the issue. It's just a statistical fact and a means to start reducing the violence if reducing the violence is the goal. The problem isn't knowing how to reduce violence, it's making it something that the nation prioritizes.
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@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Criminals gonna perp. Guns gonna be available to them in perpetuity. That has not changed since perps smuggled spears into "spear free zones" and started slashing.
reminds me of Back to the Future 3 - Tannan with a gun in his hat
Yeah - you're not wrong.
Short of killing all ability to acquire shooting weapons - specific no-shooty weapons zones will always be hit by the criminals.
And even once you make shooty's illegal - it will probably take 30+ years to get enough off the streets before you actually see a decline in violence caused by them.
It's just an impractical battle from the anti-shooty people.
Real world examples say that you can take guns away quickly and effectively. It's been done in large countries before to great effect. You can want or not want gun control of different sorts, that's a different issue. But the ability to take them off of the streets and make them all but impossible to get and easy to identify when rogue (that's the biggest deal) is actually quite easy and the US is anything but an exception to the norm.
Gun related crimes do not go away when firearms are removed from the hands of citizens. Gangs be gangs and perps be perps. The cost of an off market firearm may go up as a result of the restrictions, but they are still available.
Using "it won't go away" is the "avoid real because you can't have ideal" argument. No taking guns away won't stop ALL crime. Nothing will stop ALL crime. You can't use that as a bar for anything. Will reducing guns reduce crime and specifically gun related crime? Obviously. So why use the strawman? The goal is to save lives, and it's universally known that reducing guns will reduce the crime. No one actually doesn't believe that, that would be absolutely insane.
The problem is all about priorities. What is important to different groups isn't the same. It's like driving vs. flying. Absolutely no one actually believes driving is safer, it's absurd. But we all feel like it is safer and most people prioritize it because the feeling of control is emotionally more satisfying than the reality of safety. Our brains get confused.
Guns are like that. They feel like we are in control, so we emotionally prioritize that control over the reality of the safety giving them up we know would provide.
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@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
EDIT 2: Switzerland. Every household has a gun. It's mandatory service there. Where's the mass shootings?
We have one of the highest per capita firearms ownership up here and yet where are the mass shootings?
Why is that? Why would the focus be on disarming the US as a nation? What could the possible motive be for removing over 300M firearms from We the People's hands?
I think another issue we have is that we are looked at as a single country (of course which we are) but really we shouldn't be. At best we should be look regionally or only at the state level. That would put us comparably much closer to the rest of the world. Granted we'll have places like Nebraska/S. Dakota/N. Dakota/Montanna have super low populations compared to our landmasses.. but still.. stop looking at the USA as a single thing - and break it into more closely related parts for your comparisons.
HOw would it make us more comparable? Remember that shootings are done as "rates", not whole numbers. Breaking it up would make some states better and some worse, but the average would still be the worst in the world - it would not change at all because no matter how much you break it up, the percentages stay the same. That's why percentages are what we use so that size has no bearing.
Because if you look at California vs say Nebraska (and I haven't yet) it could show huge problems in cali, but not so much in nebraska - which means NE is a safer place to live.
just an example.Except you just break things up by urban vs rural. Of course the denser a population, the more dangerous it is. That's just going to be math. If you can't reach your neighbour or never encounter them, they are going to be much safer than if you are actively annoying each other and can swing a punch at each other when annoyed.
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@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@pmoncho said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@pmoncho said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@pmoncho said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Another possible reason I thought of was, sheer boredom with "idle hands."
Heck, "They started quarreling out of sheer boredom" is used as the example in the Cambridge dictionary.
So to that end:
I'm wondering if lately, the whole trophy for everyone/entitlement mentality is a driving force for younger people doing this.
It's possible. One would think inclusion would give a sense of pride but maybe it is having the reverse affect.
Participation trophies are a form of mockery, not inclusion.
That I totally understand. It seems that the ones handing them out, don't.
Why doesn't it seem that way? I think that they seem pretty clear on their mockery and not taking the kids seriously in any way end to end. Every witnessed education at play in the US? It's mockery to them, for sure.
So you think it's intentional? if so - why?
Because they are all annoyed by being baby sitters and having to put up with ridiculous expectations and bull shit and it's a thankless job that many took because they thought it was the easy road that didn't require them to ever engage with the real, adult world. Loads of reasons. But at the end of the day, I assume parents (the customers) want to feel good, and the mockery doesn't get noticed so much by them. The kids take the emotional damage, the teachers are just taking the easy road to placating parents that don't pay any attention.
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@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
EDIT 2: Switzerland. Every household has a gun. It's mandatory service there. Where's the mass shootings?
We have one of the highest per capita firearms ownership up here and yet where are the mass shootings?
Why is that? Why would the focus be on disarming the US as a nation? What could the possible motive be for removing over 300M firearms from We the People's hands?
I think another issue we have is that we are looked at as a single country (of course which we are) but really we shouldn't be. At best we should be look regionally or only at the state level. That would put us comparably much closer to the rest of the world. Granted we'll have places like Nebraska/S. Dakota/N. Dakota/Montanna have super low populations compared to our landmasses.. but still.. stop looking at the USA as a single thing - and break it into more closely related parts for your comparisons.
HOw would it make us more comparable? Remember that shootings are done as "rates", not whole numbers. Breaking it up would make some states better and some worse, but the average would still be the worst in the world - it would not change at all because no matter how much you break it up, the percentages stay the same. That's why percentages are what we use so that size has no bearing.
Because if you look at California vs say Nebraska (and I haven't yet) it could show huge problems in cali, but not so much in nebraska - which means NE is a safer place to live.
just an example.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_violent_crime_rate
Actually the list is more interesting than you'd think. Most of the most violent states are pretty rural. Being a red state matters far more than being urban. In fact, the more you are pro-gun, it seems the more violence that there is (likely the other way around) and even though there is freedom of movement across the entire country, violence spills over relatively little. Or if it spills over much at all, it suggests that the safer states are way, way safer locally and it's the freedom of movement that screws them.
Like how Buffalo's shooting was an upstate mass shooting but he perp was from many hours away separated by several regions and millions of people.
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Gun control is, I think, a red herring, though. I'm 100% confident that taking away guns takes away guns and that while "bad people can always find a way" global statics show that that's a pointless argument because it makes it effectively true and that's all that matters for safety.
Obviously if there were truly zero guns mass shootings would be impossible. But I think it's also obvious that mass knifings, mass bombings, mass driving into crowds and other forms of horrific destruction would replace them. Taking away guns makes it harder, and reduces the body count. But it doesn't solve the underlying problems.
Mental healthy, high stress, a torn society, a lack of social bonding, horrific education standards, religious hatred, government corruption, a constant stream of "there is no future"... all add into the mass shooting or mass whatever problem, I think. The question here isn't why is it mass SHOOTINGs, that's easy... because guns are the easiest way to MASS do anything. What Dash is asking is why the increase in MASS something or others.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Gun control is, I think, a red herring, though. I'm 100% confident that taking away guns takes away guns and that while "bad people can always find a way" global statics show that that's a pointless argument because it makes it effectively true and that's all that matters for safety.
Obviously if there were truly zero guns mass shootings would be impossible. But I think it's also obvious that mass knifings, mass bombings, mass driving into crowds and other forms of horrific destruction would replace them. Taking away guns makes it harder, and reduces the body count. But it doesn't solve the underlying problems.
Mental healthy, high stress, a torn society, a lack of social bonding, horrific education standards, religious hatred, government corruption, a constant stream of "there is no future"... all add into the mass shooting or mass whatever problem, I think. The question here isn't why is it mass SHOOTINGs, that's easy... because guns are the easiest way to MASS do anything. What Dash is asking is why the increase in MASS something or others.
When you put it like that (as I basically already said above - and clearly agree with) - you're right, I put to specific a point on the shooting - my real question - why the mass desire to hurt others has seemingly seemed to have increased?
Perhaps when taken in this context, it hasn't? Humans by their nature I believe are violent.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Criminals gonna perp. Guns gonna be available to them in perpetuity. That has not changed since perps smuggled spears into "spear free zones" and started slashing.
reminds me of Back to the Future 3 - Tannan with a gun in his hat
Yeah - you're not wrong.
Short of killing all ability to acquire shooting weapons - specific no-shooty weapons zones will always be hit by the criminals.
And even once you make shooty's illegal - it will probably take 30+ years to get enough off the streets before you actually see a decline in violence caused by them.
It's just an impractical battle from the anti-shooty people.
Real world examples say that you can take guns away quickly and effectively. It's been done in large countries before to great effect. You can want or not want gun control of different sorts, that's a different issue. But the ability to take them off of the streets and make them all but impossible to get and easy to identify when rogue (that's the biggest deal) is actually quite easy and the US is anything but an exception to the norm.
Gun related crimes do not go away when firearms are removed from the hands of citizens. Gangs be gangs and perps be perps. The cost of an off market firearm may go up as a result of the restrictions, but they are still available.
That's a solid sound bite, but statistically isn't valid. For two reasons... criminals take the path of least resistance and difficult (and risky) to obtain firearms are proven to be very hard for criminals to get. And when guns are a giveaway that you are a criminal it is way, way easier to stop someone than when carrying weapons is considered part of normal life and you can't identify a threat until it is too late.
In the real world, we know this works, it's already proven the world over. The more guns society has, the more likely they are to be fired. The fewer, the less. That doesn't mean we should go to zero guns or that guns themselves are the issue. It's just a statistical fact and a means to start reducing the violence if reducing the violence is the goal. The problem isn't knowing how to reduce violence, it's making it something that the nation prioritizes.
Citations please. Show me one society that removed firearms from citizen's hands that had zero gun related crime. I'll wait.
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@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Gun control is, I think, a red herring, though. I'm 100% confident that taking away guns takes away guns and that while "bad people can always find a way" global statics show that that's a pointless argument because it makes it effectively true and that's all that matters for safety.
Obviously if there were truly zero guns mass shootings would be impossible. But I think it's also obvious that mass knifings, mass bombings, mass driving into crowds and other forms of horrific destruction would replace them. Taking away guns makes it harder, and reduces the body count. But it doesn't solve the underlying problems.
Mental healthy, high stress, a torn society, a lack of social bonding, horrific education standards, religious hatred, government corruption, a constant stream of "there is no future"... all add into the mass shooting or mass whatever problem, I think. The question here isn't why is it mass SHOOTINGs, that's easy... because guns are the easiest way to MASS do anything. What Dash is asking is why the increase in MASS something or others.
When you put it like that (as I basically already said above - and clearly agree with) - you're right, I put to specific a point on the shooting - my real question - why the mass desire to hurt others has seemingly seemed to have increased?
Perhaps when taken in this context, it hasn't? Humans by their nature I believe are violent.
Getting into the tinfoil hat zone...
The weaponization of Dissociative Identity Disorder a la Bourne, Conspiracy Theory (Gibson), and Bucky/Zemo.
Monarch --> MK Ultra.
Not a believer? Okay, but there are truly evil people in this world who love to throw sh*t in our faces and those that have been dropping hints for decades (Gibson for one).
EDIT: The US of A is a monkey wrench in the works. One World Order cannot be established when 250M+ p*ssed and armed people turn and face the tyrant(s).
EDIT 2: I love American Patriots! W00t! Man, what an awesome push to take back the Republic from the infiltrators!
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@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Gun control is, I think, a red herring, though. I'm 100% confident that taking away guns takes away guns and that while "bad people can always find a way" global statics show that that's a pointless argument because it makes it effectively true and that's all that matters for safety.
Obviously if there were truly zero guns mass shootings would be impossible. But I think it's also obvious that mass knifings, mass bombings, mass driving into crowds and other forms of horrific destruction would replace them. Taking away guns makes it harder, and reduces the body count. But it doesn't solve the underlying problems.
Mental healthy, high stress, a torn society, a lack of social bonding, horrific education standards, religious hatred, government corruption, a constant stream of "there is no future"... all add into the mass shooting or mass whatever problem, I think. The question here isn't why is it mass SHOOTINGs, that's easy... because guns are the easiest way to MASS do anything. What Dash is asking is why the increase in MASS something or others.
Well said.
Alice Bailey's 10-Step dismantling of a Western Society and the basis for the UN's Charter.
Saul Alinsky's battle plans for destroying from within.
Lenin and Marx.
The ideology really doesn't matter as far as branding goes. Peeps gonna hurt on other peeps. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is. That being said, there's a subset of peeps (Catherine Austin Fitts - Planet Lockdown) who believe themselves above and beyond us evolved forward if you will. The game is truly global and diabolical with the narrative and house of cards coming down the pushes for a worldwide government/tyrannical structure are getting more and more insane. It's actually neat to see but painful for us Canucks and others around the world.
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@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Citations please. Show me one society that removed firearms from citizen's hands that had zero gun related crime. I'll wait.
Except that is not what he said. So why should he have to prove something he did no say?
Less guns means less gun crime. Basic statistics there.
For a country that is an example? Japan. Yesterday's assassination highlights how low the gun crime rate is there. Guns are exceedingly heavily controlled. Gun crime is basically non-existent. Most gun crimes that do happen are happening with illegal guns.
Obviously, illegal gun are going to be mostly operated by criminals. Otherwise, they would not be illegal. Criminals are going to be much more likely to use their gun than a law abiding citizen.
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@JaredBusch said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Citations please. Show me one society that removed firearms from citizen's hands that had zero gun related crime. I'll wait.
Except that is not what he said. So why should he have to prove something he did no say?
Less guns means less gun crime. Basic statistics there.
For a country that is an example? Japan. Yesterday's assassination highlights how low the gun crime rate is there. Guns are exceedingly heavily controlled. Gun crime is basically non-existent. Most gun crimes that do happen are happening with illegal guns.
Obviously, illegal gun are going to be mostly operated by criminals. Otherwise, they would not be illegal. Criminals are going to be much more likely to use their gun than a law abiding citizen.
Circular Argument right there.
"Illegal guns" <-- Um, yeah. They ain't going away. Tell me the Yakuza has absolutely no firearms in their possession.
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@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Criminals gonna perp. Guns gonna be available to them in perpetuity. That has not changed since perps smuggled spears into "spear free zones" and started slashing.
reminds me of Back to the Future 3 - Tannan with a gun in his hat
Yeah - you're not wrong.
Short of killing all ability to acquire shooting weapons - specific no-shooty weapons zones will always be hit by the criminals.
And even once you make shooty's illegal - it will probably take 30+ years to get enough off the streets before you actually see a decline in violence caused by them.
It's just an impractical battle from the anti-shooty people.
Real world examples say that you can take guns away quickly and effectively. It's been done in large countries before to great effect. You can want or not want gun control of different sorts, that's a different issue. But the ability to take them off of the streets and make them all but impossible to get and easy to identify when rogue (that's the biggest deal) is actually quite easy and the US is anything but an exception to the norm.
Gun related crimes do not go away when firearms are removed from the hands of citizens. Gangs be gangs and perps be perps. The cost of an off market firearm may go up as a result of the restrictions, but they are still available.
That's a solid sound bite, but statistically isn't valid. For two reasons... criminals take the path of least resistance and difficult (and risky) to obtain firearms are proven to be very hard for criminals to get. And when guns are a giveaway that you are a criminal it is way, way easier to stop someone than when carrying weapons is considered part of normal life and you can't identify a threat until it is too late.
In the real world, we know this works, it's already proven the world over. The more guns society has, the more likely they are to be fired. The fewer, the less. That doesn't mean we should go to zero guns or that guns themselves are the issue. It's just a statistical fact and a means to start reducing the violence if reducing the violence is the goal. The problem isn't knowing how to reduce violence, it's making it something that the nation prioritizes.
Citations please. Show me one society that removed firearms from citizen's hands that had zero gun related crime. I'll wait.
See.... this is the EXACT argument people make in IT about all kinds of things that's so wrong. Such horrible business (or anything) logic.
If the proposed solution only IMPROVES things, but doesn't 100% solve them, that is used as an excuse to not fix what can be fixed.
"Oh seatbelts don't stop ALL accidents, then I won't wear them."
If the "best" solution isn't perfect, you choose a known lesser solution. This kind of approach is used only when you already know that it is better and you are attempting a distraction. That you depend a 100% solution and aren't interested in improvement tells us that your goal is not to improve things at all.
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@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@JaredBusch said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Citations please. Show me one society that removed firearms from citizen's hands that had zero gun related crime. I'll wait.
Except that is not what he said. So why should he have to prove something he did no say?
Less guns means less gun crime. Basic statistics there.
For a country that is an example? Japan. Yesterday's assassination highlights how low the gun crime rate is there. Guns are exceedingly heavily controlled. Gun crime is basically non-existent. Most gun crimes that do happen are happening with illegal guns.
Obviously, illegal gun are going to be mostly operated by criminals. Otherwise, they would not be illegal. Criminals are going to be much more likely to use their gun than a law abiding citizen.
Circular Argument right there.
"Illegal guns" <-- Um, yeah. They ain't going away. Tell me the Yakuza has absolutely no firearms in their possession.
And tell us why that matters? What does the Yakuza having guns have to do with the situation? This is misdirection. We are asking about mass shootings, and you are avoiding the issue by pointing to a different, and insanely minor, issue.
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@JaredBusch said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Citations please. Show me one society that removed firearms from citizen's hands that had zero gun related crime. I'll wait.
Except that is not what he said. So why should he have to prove something he did no say?
Less guns means less gun crime. Basic statistics there.
For a country that is an example? Japan. Yesterday's assassination highlights how low the gun crime rate is there. Guns are exceedingly heavily controlled. Gun crime is basically non-existent. Most gun crimes that do happen are happening with illegal guns.
Obviously, illegal gun are going to be mostly operated by criminals. Otherwise, they would not be illegal. Criminals are going to be much more likely to use their gun than a law abiding citizen.
Another example... UK, Australia, China and, oh wait, basically every country. The global stats speak for themselves.
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@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Citations please. Show me one society that removed firearms from citizen's hands that had zero gun related crime. I'll wait.
So let me clarify something....
- Not all passwords secure things 100% of the time. So you don't believe in passwords at all, just give up and leave things wide open?
- Not all backups work 100% of the time. So you advice your customers not to bother taking backups at all, in fact, to avoid them?
- Not every criminal gets arrested, so you feel all policing should be avoided?
- Not everyone can be saved every time, so all medical treatments should be discontinued.
- Seatbelts aren't 100% effective, so they should be removed from cars?
- Not every customer will pay 100% of the time, so you will always work for free as billing makes no sense.
You must agree with all of these things given the logic you are using. If you don't agree with all of these things, then I think you've exactly made my point. You are willing to making really insultingly stupid anti-logical arguments to not only avoid finding a solution but to just mock people who actually want to reduce mass shootings not because you actually believe something so obviously impossible to believe but because you don't want to admit what I said... that you just simply like the idea of guns more than you like the idea of kids being alive. I'm not saying you actively want to shoot kids yourself, nothing of the sort (but everyone will jump there.) I'm just saying something I think we all know has to be true beyond any reasonable doubt - that other peoples' kids' lives just aren't as important to you as the desire to have more freely available firearms. It's about priorities.
I would have to be a huge insulting condescending ass to pretend to accept that you were actually trying to make a logical argument. No one can actually think that only if something is 100% effective that you don't do what is best, rather than intentionally doing something worse. I'm not going to be a huge jerk and say that I actually think you believe what you are saying. You just think nothing of us and are being an insulting as you can think of and not bothering to make any argument to support your point because your point isn't that we can fix things, it's that you don't think that they are broken.
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And that's really the fundamental issue. At the end of the day, maybe for all the reasons I pointed out, in America while it sounds impossible... a very, very large number (percentage) of the population doesn't support mechanisms to reduce mass violence because they don't think that there is anything to fix in the first place. They don't actively want mass violence, they just don't see it as the big negative that the rest of us do. It's seen as simply an acceptable artifact of getting the things that they want more.
Until we address the fact that half the population is A-ok with the state of things because it gives them what they want more, making an argument for how to fix things will never work because they don't see anything wrong to fix in the first place. You can call it a mental illness epidemic that so many people actually are okay with what is happening, maybe it is. But that they are okay with it, is just how things are. But no one wants to admit that they are okay with it, so instead they say "you can't completely eliminate it, so let's not bother making it better."
Nothing I could ever have written could have made my point as strongly as someone who is actually willing to write how much they were okay with it posting crazy things to try to distract us from noticing that they aren't upset by the state of things at all.
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So given these two statements...
"Tight gun control is a small price to pay for saving innocent lives."
or
"Losing some innocent lives is a small price to pay for avoiding gun control."And that the majority believe the second statement, not the first.
Then we can answer Dash's original question pretty easily. As the percentage of the population that believes that the second is true keeps increasing so will gun violence. Guns themselves are never the issue, that's why Switzerland is okay. The issue is people who know that more guns means more innocent deaths and still think that owning guns is more important than people being alive (or even their OWN safety) are the issue because that mentality where other things take priority over innocent life obviously also leads to using those guns in some percentage on innocent people because something.... anger, ideology, fear... whatever, can be prioritized over innocent life because the bar has already been set really, really low.
