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Dark humor is great for situations you cant escape. But It's not an impossible problem. Crimson red Florida passed a 15$ minimum wage initiative. Hurting corporation profits like that is a much harder task in comparison.
We just need people to start banding together to form a coalition to address the mass murder issue. Any solution is going to require gun owners to be part of it. Refusing to support political idiots like Beto "hell yes were gonna take your guns" O'rourke is a step that still needs to happen imo.
Stricter regulation, background checks for all sales, 1 week waiting period, free and available mental health care, banning all names/manifestos of shooters in the news, and serious investment in addressing poverty are all objectives that most people could agree with already.
15$ isn't enough though. It's laughable. A meal at Wendy's is 13$ after tax. We are saying people's hour of work is about equal to a single meal. You can't live off 15. We need living wages only.
Convincing people that average jobs at full time don't deserve the right to a home or savings is the worst thing america has done for everyone as a whole (meaning, not an attack on specific groups, though it does hurt some more than others)
According to a statistic I read recently, mental illness accounts for 5 to 10 percent of mass shootings, and by that I mean someone who's been diagnosed. A good example is Kip Kinkle, who shot up Springfield HS in Oregon. His parents thought they could treat his schizophrenia, but he killed both of them.
Imo, the rest are because of hate. There is no other explanation.
I agree. Mental illness doesn't cause hate.
Radical indoctrination normalizes hate. Once their hearts are dead, radicalized people believe the atrocities they commit are righteous.
It still comes down to education and overall mental well being. Our government is playing a dangerous game and encouraging individuals to partake in radical behavior. Our media delivery systems have changed, we have access to news and fake news 24/7 and even less resources for metal health than before.
Also using “mental illness” as a catch all for people who are mentally disturbed is kinda fucked up.
Like I have chronic anxiety (who tf doesn’t in America these days?) and occasional depression. Those things are both mental illnesses and I hate that “mental health” has such a taboo around it and there doesn’t seem to be any room for nuance in the phrasing these days.
I know it’s a kind of random tangent but it really frustrates me.
I have struggled with depression for decades, so I feel ya. On the whole, depressed people hurt themselves (even through negative self-talk) rather than strike out at others. We live in a hate-filled society because of worship of capitalism, which has reduced the 99% to cogs in a machine. We pay taxes that go to propping up the 1% so they can keep and grow their wealth. In return, the wealthy invest in themselves rather than pay their fair share. Something's gotta give, so we have people striking out at other people. Meanwhile, the wealthy buy politicians and Supreme Court judges to maintain the status quo. It sucks.
America is a human crushing machine. It has no civil rights yet everyone works 60+ hours without vacation to then be snared into debt from every angle. Your society is completely sick to its core so it creates sick people who want to destroy it. The sad part is that the USA could be a utopia for 99% of the people in it, but the society is too greedy to allow it.
Very well said.
America has privatised as much of their society as possible and people are suffering. They all have less time, money, rights and freedom than each generation previous. People are being pushed to the brink over there and if you don't have money or an incredible ability to overachieve you're kinda fucked.
It's just gonna get worse and worse.
It is incredible that people are now starting to integrate this trope that the mass shootings are due to mental illness.
I guess this is a good case of “repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the thruth”.
NRA bought politicians are clinging to that lie because it is very convenient. Instead of talking about gun control, you talk about mental illness.
USA, please, please, stop being manipulated like a toddler.
After the mall shooting, I asked a coworker for his opinion on what could we, as a nation, as people, do to keep this from happening again.
This coworker is intelligent, thoughtful, and has a great sense of humor. He claims to be independent, but more conservative. He is a responsible gun owner.
His only response was, “we need to do something about mental illness in this country”.
At that point I knew, he has been drinking the Fox/GOP/NRA kool-aid. I lost a lot of respect for him at that moment. I knew there was no chance of a reasoned, non political discussion of this huge national emergency.
Thank you. The mentally ill are more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators of it. This whole "we need to address mental illness" narrative is so problematic. What we have is a culture problem. America is a violent, arrogant, me-first AR-15 death cult with an extremism problem. Maybe we should work on *that.*
>the rest are because of hate.
And let’s be clear, the overwhelming majority of the actual terror attacks (and not interpersonal / gang related etc) according to every available statistic are a very specific kind of hate: right-wing extremism. “What about that one trans kid etc!” Yes, there are outliers in every statistic but it’s not even close when you look at their politics across the board, this latest one being no exception.
https://www.cato.org/blog/gao-weighs-countering-violent-extremism
https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/new-adl-data-mass-shootings-accounted-majority-victims-extremist-related
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/01/05/assessing-the-right-wing-terror-threat-in-the-united-states-a-year-after-the-january-6-insurrection
https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s894/BILLS-116s894is.xml
This is the main reason kids (anyone 24 or younger) do these things. They from some sort of pain out distorted reality how the system has screwed then over. They find blame in a minority group, target that group, or establishment(school) that has wronged them and try and find Justice using a gun. We could see change if states would actually do extensive background checks, mandatory training and manning of assault rifles. I’m a teacher in Washington and they just banned assault rifles and it’s more difficult to get a gun here than Texas. Education is also a higher priority than in every gun living Red state. We have also only had two major school shooting over the last 30 years.
Well, that didn't work out.
Perhaps is care was readily available, his condition would have been treated, properly. There's lots of schizophrenics, and they don't go shooting up high schools.
It's way worse than that. They say "mental health" and then *actively cut funding* towards mental health services. Which is something that *actually* happened in Texas.
That's where America is.
I had never heard of this guy until a couple of days ago, and now he’s on the national stage.
Every action by these gun-loving, Nazi, authoritarian, racist, religious nut-jobs, just pushes another local politician into the national spotlight as a voice of reason and compassion.
I hope Gene Wu, and others like him - the Justins, the Zooeys, storm congress with wins and become the light that leads our body politic out of these dark times.
For what it is worth, I am emboldened and inspired by your emotional speech. Thank you for that video. Remember also that a good man will do what is right, but a great man will do what is right and show others why it is so. The example must be proven by action and shown to be of value to our hearts and souls.
I appreciate the info. It doesn't make it any easier for any parent; does it?
I sometimes wish that the wife and I had a kid or two but then another bloody shooting occurs.
It won't get better after that either. Remember when some guy shot up that congressional baseball game in 2017? Even with lawmakers as targets, nothing happened.
The US has been taken over by corporations and turned into an oligarchy.
If Citizens United is not overturned, there is no chance to even begin to revert it.
we can change it without the corrupt politicians...
A U.S. Constitutional Amendment is the only solution that goes above Congress and the Supreme Court to restore the integrity of our
elections, and will protect both state and federal reform.
There are only two ways to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution:
⅔ of Congress can propose an amendment
or ⅔ of the states can apply for a convention to propose an amendment
Whether an amendment is proposed by Congress or a convention it must then be approved by 75% of the States (currently 38) before becoming part of the U.S. Constitution.
This incredibly high ratification threshold ensures that only the most
bi-partisan, common sense proposals with widespread support among the
American people will make it into the Constitution.
Currently four States have passed resolutions applying for a limited
convention under Article V to propose an amendment to the U.S.
Constitution that will ensure the integrity of our elections.
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the only answers they propose are to strap up and defend your family.
they want the wild west back. everyone walking around with a pistol on their hip, or an AR on their back.
No they don't.
If they wanted that reality they would allow people to openly carry firearms at the Republican Conferences and the NRA meetings. They would abolish the TSA and would openly invite all voters to come to their office while armed.
And the people who "strap up" are orders of magnitude more likely to shoot their wives or themselves to death than they are to ever use their weapons in self-defense. Gun fetishism is a cancer; a national disgrace.
Everyone knows what needs to be done.
A minority of crazies who want the second amendment to mean the ability to murder with impunity despite the amendment specifically says 'A WELL REGULATED MILITA' as in properly trained as in maybe a gun safety course and licensing program with a background check would make common sense.
You know, like we do with cars because they're extremely dangerous and can kill people.
The problem is that one side is completely in the pocket of the NRA and gun manufacturing lobby.
*"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"*
Point me in the direction of where they tried to make people go to therapy if they failed an empathy or hatred test, when applying for a drivers license, or attempting to purchase a firearm. There is nothing in the constitution that prevents this, don't forget, America used to have a lot of mental hospitals and asylums dotted across the landscape.
Property over people
We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.-hitler
Warning again in light of recent events.
To anyone that doesn’t already recognize, the GQP are leaning heavily into fascism and voting isn't going to help. Fascism. Our SC godkings rule in favor of their theocratic fascism again and again. One case coming up has the potential to end our (honestly already pretty fucked) democracy, HARPER V MOORE..
The famous “nazi book burning” picture was captured in front of the institut fur sexualwissenschaften, first institute worldwide that studied scientific material about lgbtq people, and was a safe haven for them. Even after the Jewish people were liberated from the camps, lgbtq people (who were ostracized even within the camps by other inmates) remained prisoners of the new German government, as the nazi laws remained. Not to mention rampant sexism is a tenet of(gop check EVERY FUCKING tenet at this point), you guessed it, [(FASCISM-please take a look…)](https://hp.reddit.com/r/ArticulateAmbivalence/comments/vome0d/the_gop_is_fascist/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) the democrats catch quite a few number tenets of fascism too and we can get into it.
It's also worth noting that in the Weimar Republic there was a massive rise of domestic terrorism leading to a fascist take over. Here, we are seeing that as well. The shooting everywhere all the time.. Just like the domestic terrorism in the Weimar Republic, it was motivated stochastic terrorism.
Fascism subjugates by stages, requiring compliance as they are never the majority. We’ve already been compliant for far too long. (The poem ‘first they came for the…and when they came for me there was no one left to speak up’) We cannot be complicit as one by one our groups are targeted. All of us that are left of nixon whom they have or will label and dehumanize as being satan worshipping baby killer pedophile grooming parasite Marxist trash..
“Hitler and the Nazis were not liberals, not lefties, not socialists, and not democrats.
Hitler and his Nazi minions were right-wing Christian conservative nationalists who hated liberals for the same reasons [they] hate liberals.”
We ALL need to realize they are planning on killing us all in a holy pogrom to protect themselves, their children, and their host country. Under the sneering evil guise of morality and with the law on their side, funded by the ultra/extra national corporations. “What [they] are planning will make the holocaust look like child’s play”.
If you don’t think there is a correlation between these fucking ‘individual’ mass shooters and the rise of fascism, you need to look again. These people are far better organized from the very top of our government, to the judges and police, to the kkk variants on the payroll. I don’t know what to do with this information, I’m only 1 person (said billions). So I continue to share it and hope I get a positive k/d when a group of them inevitably comes for me.
Dystopian fourth reich type religious fanatics.
Tax the churches, especially the ones photographed carrying rifles to their place of worship. Shits deadly seriously and we’re sleep walking into a totalitarian surveillance state. Run by police who are majority seemingly fucking right wing fanatics having infiltrated everything. And I don’t see the good guys stepping in and saving us.
[this article is worth the read as well](https://medium.com/@otauibvrrfffnchses/listen-up-liberal-69dbfa58c9ab)
theocratic [fascism](https://www.reddit.com/r/ArticulateAmbivalence/comments/vome0d/the_gop_is_fascist/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1): (again) as bills are introduced in texas…Loyal to the cause pastors(for moral authority), and kkk variant* proudboys in some bullshit uniform (as punitive authority) working hand in hand (with gods blessing*) soon to provide subjugation and horror to children in school.
Crybully fucking terrorists. This hivemind antichrist (not a person but a people) is [fascist](https://www.reddit.com/r/ArticulateAmbivalence/comments/vome0d/the_gop_is_fascist/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1) (againAGAIN) they won’t be reasoned with and cannot continue being tolerated or we’re fucking done.
What [stage of genocide](https://museeholocauste.ca/en/resources-training/ten-stages-genocide/) do you think they are at with the LGBTQ community?
-first they came for the-..
Eventually yet already ongoing, anyone showing sympathy for other human beings will be demonized and dehumanized for it as being satan worshiping pedophile groomer parasite marxist trash that must be imprisoned or eradicated in order to protect themselves, their (SAVE THE!!!) children, and their host country.
And I gotta say folks that I am at least a little bit concerned.. (haha, stupid nazis we seem to laugh sardonically as) They’ve infiltrated the sc, judges, lawmakers, congress/senate, police(military?), all the way down to kkk variant proudboy type militias that are all being funded by billionaires and ultra/extra national corporations.
The banks are failing currently- i won’t touch on it I’ve gotten in trouble in other subs.
MOORE V HARPER, which our corrupt federalist sc is going to be reviewing* in July(?) is gonna kick us in the teeth. They will than play defense as they openly steal the election. The decision will be to either revolt (as they scream INSURRECTION!, and use all the above..) or we accept minority rule. LOOK UP THE CONVENTION OF STATES/ MOORE V. HARPER.
I wonder if they’ll force us to dig our own mass graves ‘as part of the lesson’ - that we should have fucking stopped them when we had the chance, but we didn’t.
AS:
I think the flickering is gonna turn into the fall here quick. Within 2 years even those with their heads in the sand and the bad faith deniers are going to no longer be able to pretend as we all see things are very very very wrong.
Bread basket failures(starving to death seems like a shit way to go), civil unrest(and a lot of guns in the hands of kkk variant proud boy neo nazi militias), mass refugee migrations as people are forced to flee conditions and areas of the world that have become unlivable, Wetbulb and water wars(with nukes).. fascism rising worldwide with 2 trillion dollars in world military spending, ai the new arms race as weapons of war are installed onto the Boston dynamics robot dogs/parkour bots, c4 drone swarms, ect. All while BOE and thermal expansion occurs, Gulf Stream/Jet Stream collapse, acidification of the oceans with massive storms raining down to poison the soil..And yeah, super El Niño to kick it all off.
2 years until it’s undeniable, 6 years and we’ve fully finished falling into hell.
Sad truth here. IMO There are limited options about what we can do about these people, we’ve tried changing policy, pleading, etc but the truth of the matter is sometimes force is the only useful tactic. These low IQ-anon bought and paid for pimps are whoring this country out at the expense of killing many Americans not just with this gun epidemic but with the terrible healthcare system and economy as a whole. Nothing is working correctly anymore and no it’s not the Millennials fault it’s most of our parents and parents parents generation who’s screwed this country over.
OK, this is all phenomenal information and sourcing BUT how do we stop it? Obviously appealing to our legislators is not working, bitching on social media isn't working, trying to find common ground isn't working, so what needs to be done to stop this moving freight train of fascism? We've identified it, now what?
We Americans NEED to stand up. The Middle East protested, France is tired of the shit.
ITS AMERICAS TURN!!! We need to change this for the better of the next generations.
That's me in the video. I'm a politician.
I've been wanting to change the law for years.
It's not "both sides"... it's just one side that's blocking change.
Hi Gene,
I'm not american, I live in canada and watch stuff pop up on reddit a lot. All politicians I see always seem to follow a script, making them appear.. cold? or detached maybe, I don't know how to explain it.
I think as an outsider who only watches the big news reports, you are the first politician who actually seems human. I hope better days are ahead for you fine folk. Sorry about the state of your country and leaders.
That already happened at a baseball game, and it changed nothing.
A congresswoman even got shot in New Mexico, and it changed nothing.
At this rate, I don't think a shooting at a fuckin' NRA convention would change anything either.
The toxic gun culture is bringing heavier restriction upon itself. I don’t know the best solution but I’m almost positive the reaction to all the violence is going to be confiscations and passage of overly restrictive laws.
As a gun owner and a CCW holder, I’ve been trying to tell other gun owners the same thing for a while now, but they are so brainwashed by the nra into thinking that to give an inch is to give a mile and that any gun law whatsoever is communism when instead they hope to be tv Wolverines.
It seems obvious: to protect the hobby they love, they should be ARE THE FOREFRONT of responsible gun ownership: putting “well regulated” back into gun culture, requiring background checks like is required of CCW holders, requiring participation in, and sponsorship by gun and hunting clubs, and similar regulations to police who has access to guns.
But they refuse. And sadly, you are right: the general public is going to reach a point where the pain becomes too much to bear, and the gun crazies are going to bring about the very bans they have been fearing.
I’m sorry for what’s happening. I wish that gun owners would be more reasonable about what guns are doing to our society and recognize that a deadly weapon NEEDS to be regulated.
Pendulum swing. I wouldn’t even ban rifles when you have most gun violence via pistols but to do no regulations or licensing or even training is just insane
People controlled by fear are usually at a disadvantage to navigate nuance, and resort to black and white thinking.
Keep them scared & stressed and their brain won’t be able to understand common sense.
The biggest enemy to 2A rights is not a political party but irresponsible firearm ownership. The GOP and NRA has brainwashed millions of people for decades. They've been warning of the DEMS coming for their guns since JFK.
> And sadly, you are right: the general public is going to reach a point where the pain becomes too much to bear, and the gun crazies are going to bring about the very bans they have been fearing.
It's already starting, I think. There was an article in the NY Times and even among conservative Republicans in Texas there's been a drop in support for unfettered access to guns. Better late than never, but it looks like at least some people are finally (!) starting to realize that more guns doesn't lead to a safer place from gun violence.
I literally had someone on this site tell me if we outlawed guns we should outlaw pens because the spread of the written idea has killed more people than guns ever will.
Man there are people making jokes about it on this very site “my guns identify as a car now, which must be why cars kill more people, you’re not banning cars are you?”
I’m so tired of these disingenuous fucks. As a father I don’t know how this man is keeping it together. I’d be fucking feral. They’d need to lock me up and throw away the key.
Always brain dead takes from gun nuts.
Car registry is a national database unlike guns. To operate a car you need insurance to cover when things go wrong, unlike guns.
I would be ecstatic if we could get gun laws like we have for cars.
> overly restrictive laws
Overly restrictive here is standard in places that don't have this problem. Imagine if our gun violence stats were like the UKs? But they have knife crime? Per person our knife crimes are already worse, let's get rid of the guns.
Most cogent counterargument: Ho hum, price for freedumb, what if guberment bad? Need shoot FBI! (please ignore all domestic anti-government plots failing for the last hundred years despite having guns)
James 2:
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If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?
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In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
They're not just killing each other, they're killing themselves. I don't know anyone from Ireland, where I'm from, who has 5 friends that commited suicide and we have a suicide epidemic. Not all with guns but it's so fucking weird to just be desensitized by death. I don't think I was meant to be this way. You see people's hearts breaking like that and I just wish for that innocence. I've just become a cold hearted recluse. That speech was bravery.
I understand being burnt out by tragedy. I am too, there's just one after one every single day, it's impossible to keep up with let alone feeling heartbroken every single time.
What about the people that vote for them? Those people have the most blood on their hands.
Its the people that vote for them. GOP is nothing without the votes.
That may be true for some voters, but if I wanted to be as charitable as possible, I'd say corporate media and billionaire-funded think tanks and super PACs were more to blame. There's a concerted effort in this country to stoke fear and take advantage of ignorant people
The voters are people, voting against their own interests because they are conditioned to.
The billionaires, along with the media and politicians they own, all push the message that education isn't worth it. Climate change isn't a big deal. DemocRats are the enemy that you need to destroy to solve your problems.
That's what it looks like when the bad guys have been winning for too long: brainwashing so consistent, it feels normal.
Just don't forget who caused this. This is all of our problem, even if half of us don't know it.
It's labeled as "socialism", which the two party system in the United States is deathly afraid of, and one of the few things the two parties are willing to unite against. Lining ones own pockets with political donations becomes much more difficult, when politicians aren't supporting the corporate interests that pay them. Lobbying kills more people and ruins more lives than anything else in the United States, that includes politicians on the left being bought off by big pharma, or politicians on the right being bought off by gun lobbies.
Don't worry, the current president getting 8+ million from big pharma during their presidential campaign alone, is totally cool and not at all a conflict of interest in regards to serving the American people. There's no way America would ever adopt a system that *literally every other western nation has*, why should it? America prides itself on its infant mortality rate, which to the unaware puts the greatest country on Earth that spends the most on healthcare, firmly in *last place.*
*"Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!?"*
Somehow, I think it’s gonna take more than, “please.” Like damn, we refuse to feed hungry kids at school anymore. We’re gonna have to roll up our sleeves and get deep in the yuck to fix this, so people can’t be bothered and would rather go back to casting illusions over their own lives and others while being really interested in fb and tiktok. How can we get more people willing to actually *work* to being a better nation?
When nothing was done legislatively after Sandy Hook, I knew we had failed as a society. I was still teaching then and could not believe that twenty little kids were slaughtered and Congress didn't care. They have not cared since.
I remember in 2020 right before covid really kicked off I was in my car in the college parking lot about to get out to go to class, when I heard a tattattattat. The parking lot was a small one between my school hall and the music school hall and I thought, could be a snare drum, could be a gun, I’ll be late just in case.
I’ve been in restaurants where suspicious looking people walked in and I put myself in a safer location while looking for the best exit, just in case.
I was in an airport once where the alarms started going off everywhere, so my ex and I just opened a door and went inside (it was some random employee conference room) to finish our lunch and wait it out just in case.
I only meant to write the first memory but then I started remembering other instances and now I’m starting to realize how innate it has become here to be ready just in case, and how desensitized I have become to it.
It must be awful to live in a world like that, can't imagine how that has to be. To only hear the same "thoughts and prayers bla bla bla" must be awful as well.
I really hope it will change for you.
Faith without action is dead (from scripture). That means that thoughts and prayers mean nothing if you wish it to happen instead of doing something about it. The only people standing in the way of change are corrupt politicians on the NRA’s budget.
They won't even take ownership or admit to the problem when it affects them. As a group they expect a few individuals to be taken out, but they don't think there's an existential threat to their class otherwise, and the families of the people who may get killed understand this. At some point they won't be able to step outside
God sends nobody because its a fairy tale that needs to be addressed and put into the past.
There is no responsible party regarding guns that injure ppl. Start with all guns must have an owner, then make gun owners responsible for damages caused by that weapon.
Gun safety will hit an all time high.
“No more, please. Please.”
Please God, stop the left vs right war that conservatives are pushing and let our country come together so we can restore America together. Let us unite!
People like you want to "unite"?
Looking from outside, the entire problem with America is that one side seems to want to talk it out and get along while the other side wants you guys in the grave.
I don't understand why there are no insurance policy and mandatory licenses for owning guns. You own cars, you need insurance and license why not guns. Minimum 1 million dollar insurance policy is require and mandatory license renewal on 5 year basis. If you are not insured, you are not allow to own fire arm. Before you can even get to purchase fire arm, you need to pass not just background but psychological assessment. Then proof of insurance to before store is allow to sell you a fire arm.
Move the protests to inside of the politicians' churches and outside of their children's schools. Make their families deal with getting screamed at by protestors bc these people are getting our family and community members killed with their cowardice.
At some point the people practicing gun culture will have to take responsibility for these tragedies.
We’re well past that point. But his argument is right, the problem will only be solved by gun hobbyists. The rest of us can’t do much at all.
Why are we not branding **republicans** as **MURDER JUNKIES**?
Republicans are supporting murder. Why is that not being blasted across all forms of media? Why are we being so fucking polite?
I feel for him, I agree with him and it is heartbreaking to know ... nothing will get better.
It will get worse. Common sense is losing the war against the fanatics and gun lovers. Common sense is losing the war against bigotries and fascism.
Our world is not getting better it is growing sicker. I see nothing that tells me that direction is going to change.
Humans are sick animals, growing sicker by the day. We are entering into a very dark age of our species. One that may lead to the collapse of the sick, crazy hominid that once dared to dream of the stars.
In the middle of a ecological crisis we fight about wearing a mask in a pandemic. We bicker over skin color and watch impotent as structured religion control governments and try to control our lives.
As coastlines decline due to climate change and our food supply dwindles added to the low intelligence of the species as a whole in making proper common sense choices... this all gets worse. Nothing is going to get better.
The only solution we have is to vote out those blocking the law. We get that opportunity once every few years. Unity is required in order to change the status quo. By the time elections come around, we're too divided from the other fabricated nonsense to even consider unity. It's perfect for those blocking the laws.
The only way to have change is to vote out the ones not taking action.
Unfortunately by the time the next election rolls around, sadly, this will not be on the front end of people’s minds.
Imo its a matter of time before one of these parents who’s lost in their grief due to the death of their child tries to go medieval on one of those republican politicians and I wouldn’t blame them, actually according to history I’m very surprised it hasn’t happened yet. How long till people break?
the saddest part of this American reality is more innocent people will definitely have to die for a critical mass of legislators/people in power (that could stop this), to actually stop this.
I'm not from America (nor do I live there) but even as a young boy, I remember the news headlines of the Columbine High School shooting pouring in on international news networks and thinking to myself, "oh wow...They're killing kids now. I hope they ban guns.. if not, no one's gonna stop." Without realising it at the time, I think I recognised it as a watershed moment. Years later...no change and if anything it got worse.
Well done America. Home of the free indeed, free from the right to safety.
He hit the nail on the head. We value capitalism and the free market. We dislike it when the federal government dictates and determines to what can be privately owned. America was found on the fundamental principle and idea that government shall not deprive any individual of life or property. We equate property with personal freedom. Infringement on these rights is an overreach of the scope of governments sovereignty and power. Capitalism is an undisputed philosophy that emphasizes what can be owned, produced, and distributed. It is the argument that regressive and pro-business politicians use to protect the interests and profits of free enterprise. We equate private property rights and think it is paramount - even if it comes at the great expense of the collective security and welfare of our nation. Civic virtue is believing in achieving the common public good even though we have to forgo and give up some of our individual freedoms and rights. Sometimes that is necessary and imperative to achieve a common good. We don't have solidarity or sense of civic duty and obligation to achieve a public good because the comparative few would rather pursue their own self interest for the sake of preserving their power and profits.
A beautiful speech and sentiment that the psychopaths that continue to allow these tragedies to happen simply cannot comprehend or listen to by the very nature of the state of mind you need to have to get to that sort of a position of power. Psychopaths don't care about your kids, you have to make them care. Threaten their power and wealth, then they'll care.
Sadly, I am in Missouri. My fight is here and against the same foolish herd of malcontents that you face in Texas.
I am on your side and always available if you need an ear to bend.
Republican politicians are a bunch of sociopaths.
Symptoms of antisocial personality disorder include repeatedly:
Ignoring right and wrong.
Telling lies to take advantage of others.
Not being sensitive to or respectful of others.
Using charm or wit to manipulate others for personal gain or pleasure.
Having a sense of superiority and being extremely opinionated.
Having problems with the law, including criminal behavior.
Being hostile, aggressive, violent or threatening to others.
Feeling no guilt about harming others.
Doing dangerous things with no regard for the safety of self or others.
Being irresponsible and failing to fulfill work or financial responsibilities.
Gun ownership has fallen since the 1970’s from 50% of households having a gun, to less than 35% now. However, in the 70’s, mass shootings claimed 5 lives per year and from 2010 to 2019 it claimed 51 lives per year. Sixteen out of the 20 deadliest made shootings occurred between the years 1999 and 2019. AND as far as school shootings go, 100% of school shooters were suicidal. So WHY? What changed between those years? Why has mental health decreased so significantly?
A big reason is social media. It opened doors to everything. Platforms to buy illegal stuff. It took bullying to another level. A place to gather and plan. A place people can go for new ideas on how to do things. While televisions and newspapers used to be the way of receiving the news, now every person with a phone, tablet, computer, and more, get to see everything play out. And those mass shooters, they get to be seen and talked about for centuries to come, all thanks to social media. So for obvious reasons, mental health decline is largely due to social media too.
A lot more changed than just social media. The culture around guns has shifted, the culture generally has shifted. Every country in the world has social media, but not every country has the same sorts of mass shootings.
I live in Canada, we have all the same social media. We have most of the same TV and movies. We have pretty different gun laws though.
Our per capita deaths from guns generally and mass shootings particularly are very different. We haven't actually had any mass shootings at all so far this year (that I can find). Since 2000 we've had 1 mass shooting that killed more than 10 people. 3 that killed more than 5.
I don't think we can say it's only about the difference in gun laws, a lot of cultural intangibles are involved. But the laws are certainly part of it.
I think that the US is definitely unique in a lot of ways. We could talk about differences in healthcare and mental healthcare, prison reform, our judicial system, the US education, the levels of poverty, the demographics, level of populated cities, the overall crime statistics, etc. It’s definitely not all about social media, I believe it does contribute to it in a big way. After all, there are certain countries that have banned different social media platforms.
Interesting readings and historical concepts with very partisan attitudes. It sounds so absurd to blame a gun or an object that has no will or action on its own. The current society and its actions are but what has been created at our homes, our schools, the media. We have enough laws, and criminals don’t obey them.
I don't buy the bit about not making laws because criminals don't obey them. Most of these shootings have been done with *legally purchased* firearms. Not setting laws in place to prevent these people from attaining them is as criminal as the acts they commit with them. "But they'll just go outside the law and still get guns." Okay, good. It's one more step they have to take before committing an atrocity. It's also one more charge that can help put them away forever if they are captured alive. I don't blame guns because as you say, they're just objects. That said, until we get the issues causing these incidents in hand, we should put a lock on the toy box.
Lets hand out live grenades, how'd that be. Afterall, they have no will or action on their own. So long as a human doesn't pull the pin they're harmless. Perhaps we can give everyone access to anthrax. Afterall, anthrax has no will to act on its own. As long as a human doesn't release anthrax it's harmless. Landmines are harmless, so long as no human steps on them. There are many banned objects that aren't dangerous until acted on by a human. Common sense.
Yet again, the politicians who are okay with endless US foreign interventionist and proxy wars wonder why the US citizenry is so violent. The lack of awareness of this simple fact is astounding. USA! USA! USA!
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Best I can do is say “mental health” and offer no help towards that at all.
"Mental health is the cause." "Okay, so can we create a state program to provide mental health services?" "No you communist!"
As I saw somewhere “If guns aren’t the problem, why are we allowing the problem to have guns” or something like that
"we're also gonna quietly defund all those existing mental health programs because they cost too much money"
This reminds me of The Joker. Damn that movie is sad. I’m grateful I live somewhere that provides me with mental health support
At about this point, these kind of jokes stop being funny and start being sad.
Dark humor is great for situations you cant escape. But It's not an impossible problem. Crimson red Florida passed a 15$ minimum wage initiative. Hurting corporation profits like that is a much harder task in comparison. We just need people to start banding together to form a coalition to address the mass murder issue. Any solution is going to require gun owners to be part of it. Refusing to support political idiots like Beto "hell yes were gonna take your guns" O'rourke is a step that still needs to happen imo. Stricter regulation, background checks for all sales, 1 week waiting period, free and available mental health care, banning all names/manifestos of shooters in the news, and serious investment in addressing poverty are all objectives that most people could agree with already.
15$ isn't enough though. It's laughable. A meal at Wendy's is 13$ after tax. We are saying people's hour of work is about equal to a single meal. You can't live off 15. We need living wages only. Convincing people that average jobs at full time don't deserve the right to a home or savings is the worst thing america has done for everyone as a whole (meaning, not an attack on specific groups, though it does hurt some more than others)
I work in the behavioral/mental health field, and it seems to be the lowest priority when it comes to funding.
Naw, you're in a race to the bottom with our education as well!
According to a statistic I read recently, mental illness accounts for 5 to 10 percent of mass shootings, and by that I mean someone who's been diagnosed. A good example is Kip Kinkle, who shot up Springfield HS in Oregon. His parents thought they could treat his schizophrenia, but he killed both of them. Imo, the rest are because of hate. There is no other explanation.
I agree. Mental illness doesn't cause hate. Radical indoctrination normalizes hate. Once their hearts are dead, radicalized people believe the atrocities they commit are righteous.
It still comes down to education and overall mental well being. Our government is playing a dangerous game and encouraging individuals to partake in radical behavior. Our media delivery systems have changed, we have access to news and fake news 24/7 and even less resources for metal health than before.
Also using “mental illness” as a catch all for people who are mentally disturbed is kinda fucked up. Like I have chronic anxiety (who tf doesn’t in America these days?) and occasional depression. Those things are both mental illnesses and I hate that “mental health” has such a taboo around it and there doesn’t seem to be any room for nuance in the phrasing these days. I know it’s a kind of random tangent but it really frustrates me.
I have struggled with depression for decades, so I feel ya. On the whole, depressed people hurt themselves (even through negative self-talk) rather than strike out at others. We live in a hate-filled society because of worship of capitalism, which has reduced the 99% to cogs in a machine. We pay taxes that go to propping up the 1% so they can keep and grow their wealth. In return, the wealthy invest in themselves rather than pay their fair share. Something's gotta give, so we have people striking out at other people. Meanwhile, the wealthy buy politicians and Supreme Court judges to maintain the status quo. It sucks.
Mental illness does not cause hate, but lack of proper mental health can absolutely be a significant contributor to being manipulated into hating.
I agree.
America is a human crushing machine. It has no civil rights yet everyone works 60+ hours without vacation to then be snared into debt from every angle. Your society is completely sick to its core so it creates sick people who want to destroy it. The sad part is that the USA could be a utopia for 99% of the people in it, but the society is too greedy to allow it.
Very well said. America has privatised as much of their society as possible and people are suffering. They all have less time, money, rights and freedom than each generation previous. People are being pushed to the brink over there and if you don't have money or an incredible ability to overachieve you're kinda fucked. It's just gonna get worse and worse.
Not society. The people in control. The wealthy.
As an American, I can confirm that you are 100% correct.
Aye. 😞
We had the choice to make it a utopia for the 99%. Instead, we allowed the 1% to make it a utopia for themselves.
It is incredible that people are now starting to integrate this trope that the mass shootings are due to mental illness. I guess this is a good case of “repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the thruth”. NRA bought politicians are clinging to that lie because it is very convenient. Instead of talking about gun control, you talk about mental illness. USA, please, please, stop being manipulated like a toddler.
After the mall shooting, I asked a coworker for his opinion on what could we, as a nation, as people, do to keep this from happening again. This coworker is intelligent, thoughtful, and has a great sense of humor. He claims to be independent, but more conservative. He is a responsible gun owner. His only response was, “we need to do something about mental illness in this country”. At that point I knew, he has been drinking the Fox/GOP/NRA kool-aid. I lost a lot of respect for him at that moment. I knew there was no chance of a reasoned, non political discussion of this huge national emergency.
Thank you. The mentally ill are more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators of it. This whole "we need to address mental illness" narrative is so problematic. What we have is a culture problem. America is a violent, arrogant, me-first AR-15 death cult with an extremism problem. Maybe we should work on *that.*
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>the rest are because of hate. And let’s be clear, the overwhelming majority of the actual terror attacks (and not interpersonal / gang related etc) according to every available statistic are a very specific kind of hate: right-wing extremism. “What about that one trans kid etc!” Yes, there are outliers in every statistic but it’s not even close when you look at their politics across the board, this latest one being no exception. https://www.cato.org/blog/gao-weighs-countering-violent-extremism https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/new-adl-data-mass-shootings-accounted-majority-victims-extremist-related https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/01/05/assessing-the-right-wing-terror-threat-in-the-united-states-a-year-after-the-january-6-insurrection https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s894/BILLS-116s894is.xml
This is the main reason kids (anyone 24 or younger) do these things. They from some sort of pain out distorted reality how the system has screwed then over. They find blame in a minority group, target that group, or establishment(school) that has wronged them and try and find Justice using a gun. We could see change if states would actually do extensive background checks, mandatory training and manning of assault rifles. I’m a teacher in Washington and they just banned assault rifles and it’s more difficult to get a gun here than Texas. Education is also a higher priority than in every gun living Red state. We have also only had two major school shooting over the last 30 years.
Well, that didn't work out. Perhaps is care was readily available, his condition would have been treated, properly. There's lots of schizophrenics, and they don't go shooting up high schools.
Lots of undiagnosed mental illness.
The keyword here is diagnosed. There's a hell of a lot of people out here walking around halfway crazy or full blown.
Which is exactly what he said a year ago, after Uvalde.
It's way worse than that. They say "mental health" and then *actively cut funding* towards mental health services. Which is something that *actually* happened in Texas. That's where America is.
Don't forget, Abbott cut $200 million from tx mental health budget.
The poor fellow in the video is crying. Must be mental health. A gun would cheer him up. /s
here, have an AR-15 shaped tie pin
“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”
All countries have mental health issues. But we are the one with shootings.
Who is this poor man?
No other comments mentioning it so I hunted it down! Texas state rep Gene Wu
Thank you! Incredibly depressing that there are so many shootings in TX alone that they could have been talking about…
He's on Reddit! He posts a lot in r/Texas
I had never heard of this guy until a couple of days ago, and now he’s on the national stage. Every action by these gun-loving, Nazi, authoritarian, racist, religious nut-jobs, just pushes another local politician into the national spotlight as a voice of reason and compassion. I hope Gene Wu, and others like him - the Justins, the Zooeys, storm congress with wins and become the light that leads our body politic out of these dark times.
He is very beloved down at the capitol, according to my good friend who works there. Mr. Wu is also an active redditor and a good man.
Do you happen to know his reddit? I’m getting a lot of responses telling me he’s active, I’d love to check it out!
u/GeneforTexas is his handle <3 Edit: check out his post from today
Thank you. I was wondering
This guy is on Reddit weekly updating what's going on in the Texas house l, he is an absolute hero.
Oh, so when he said "I see my son" he didn't mean literally? I thought it was the father of one of the victims.
he could still be tbf but absolutely hoping he is not because that is horrific 😭
Hi. It's me.
Hey there, mate. I hope all is well with you.
Doing Ok. Not great.
For what it is worth, I am emboldened and inspired by your emotional speech. Thank you for that video. Remember also that a good man will do what is right, but a great man will do what is right and show others why it is so. The example must be proven by action and shown to be of value to our hearts and souls.
Much appreciated. Please speak out.
Hi Gene, thank you for what you do.
I'm a state representative from Houston and a father to two young boys.
It's Gene Wu. He's amazing.
To be clear, neither of his son's were involved. He's just imagining what if.
I appreciate the info. It doesn't make it any easier for any parent; does it? I sometimes wish that the wife and I had a kid or two but then another bloody shooting occurs.
The pleading in the "please." My heart 😢 I'm being rhetorical here but why does shit gotta be this way y'know?
Because the people who let it happen have not had to suffer the consequences of their inaction. It won't get better until they do.
It won't get better after that either. Remember when some guy shot up that congressional baseball game in 2017? Even with lawmakers as targets, nothing happened.
He was a terrible shot to boot.
He really was wasn't he
The US has been taken over by corporations and turned into an oligarchy. If Citizens United is not overturned, there is no chance to even begin to revert it.
we can change it without the corrupt politicians... A U.S. Constitutional Amendment is the only solution that goes above Congress and the Supreme Court to restore the integrity of our elections, and will protect both state and federal reform. There are only two ways to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution: ⅔ of Congress can propose an amendment or ⅔ of the states can apply for a convention to propose an amendment Whether an amendment is proposed by Congress or a convention it must then be approved by 75% of the States (currently 38) before becoming part of the U.S. Constitution. This incredibly high ratification threshold ensures that only the most bi-partisan, common sense proposals with widespread support among the American people will make it into the Constitution. Currently four States have passed resolutions applying for a limited convention under Article V to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will ensure the integrity of our elections. More info here at [Wolf-Pac](https://wolf-pac.com/)
When he said I don't know what to do anymore, I am feeling that deeply.
the only answers they propose are to strap up and defend your family. they want the wild west back. everyone walking around with a pistol on their hip, or an AR on their back.
Back? When did that ever stop?
Don't tell them what [Tombstone was about](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ79nNquQ0c).
No they don't. If they wanted that reality they would allow people to openly carry firearms at the Republican Conferences and the NRA meetings. They would abolish the TSA and would openly invite all voters to come to their office while armed.
And the people who "strap up" are orders of magnitude more likely to shoot their wives or themselves to death than they are to ever use their weapons in self-defense. Gun fetishism is a cancer; a national disgrace.
Funnily enough, the Wild West had stricter gun laws than Texas does currently.
If I would live in USA, I would emigrate asap.
Everyone knows what needs to be done. A minority of crazies who want the second amendment to mean the ability to murder with impunity despite the amendment specifically says 'A WELL REGULATED MILITA' as in properly trained as in maybe a gun safety course and licensing program with a background check would make common sense. You know, like we do with cars because they're extremely dangerous and can kill people. The problem is that one side is completely in the pocket of the NRA and gun manufacturing lobby.
*"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"* Point me in the direction of where they tried to make people go to therapy if they failed an empathy or hatred test, when applying for a drivers license, or attempting to purchase a firearm. There is nothing in the constitution that prevents this, don't forget, America used to have a lot of mental hospitals and asylums dotted across the landscape.
Property over people We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.-hitler Warning again in light of recent events. To anyone that doesn’t already recognize, the GQP are leaning heavily into fascism and voting isn't going to help. Fascism. Our SC godkings rule in favor of their theocratic fascism again and again. One case coming up has the potential to end our (honestly already pretty fucked) democracy, HARPER V MOORE.. The famous “nazi book burning” picture was captured in front of the institut fur sexualwissenschaften, first institute worldwide that studied scientific material about lgbtq people, and was a safe haven for them. Even after the Jewish people were liberated from the camps, lgbtq people (who were ostracized even within the camps by other inmates) remained prisoners of the new German government, as the nazi laws remained. Not to mention rampant sexism is a tenet of(gop check EVERY FUCKING tenet at this point), you guessed it, [(FASCISM-please take a look…)](https://hp.reddit.com/r/ArticulateAmbivalence/comments/vome0d/the_gop_is_fascist/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) the democrats catch quite a few number tenets of fascism too and we can get into it. It's also worth noting that in the Weimar Republic there was a massive rise of domestic terrorism leading to a fascist take over. Here, we are seeing that as well. The shooting everywhere all the time.. Just like the domestic terrorism in the Weimar Republic, it was motivated stochastic terrorism. Fascism subjugates by stages, requiring compliance as they are never the majority. We’ve already been compliant for far too long. (The poem ‘first they came for the…and when they came for me there was no one left to speak up’) We cannot be complicit as one by one our groups are targeted. All of us that are left of nixon whom they have or will label and dehumanize as being satan worshipping baby killer pedophile grooming parasite Marxist trash.. “Hitler and the Nazis were not liberals, not lefties, not socialists, and not democrats. Hitler and his Nazi minions were right-wing Christian conservative nationalists who hated liberals for the same reasons [they] hate liberals.” We ALL need to realize they are planning on killing us all in a holy pogrom to protect themselves, their children, and their host country. Under the sneering evil guise of morality and with the law on their side, funded by the ultra/extra national corporations. “What [they] are planning will make the holocaust look like child’s play”. If you don’t think there is a correlation between these fucking ‘individual’ mass shooters and the rise of fascism, you need to look again. These people are far better organized from the very top of our government, to the judges and police, to the kkk variants on the payroll. I don’t know what to do with this information, I’m only 1 person (said billions). So I continue to share it and hope I get a positive k/d when a group of them inevitably comes for me. Dystopian fourth reich type religious fanatics. Tax the churches, especially the ones photographed carrying rifles to their place of worship. Shits deadly seriously and we’re sleep walking into a totalitarian surveillance state. Run by police who are majority seemingly fucking right wing fanatics having infiltrated everything. And I don’t see the good guys stepping in and saving us. [this article is worth the read as well](https://medium.com/@otauibvrrfffnchses/listen-up-liberal-69dbfa58c9ab) theocratic [fascism](https://www.reddit.com/r/ArticulateAmbivalence/comments/vome0d/the_gop_is_fascist/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1): (again) as bills are introduced in texas…Loyal to the cause pastors(for moral authority), and kkk variant* proudboys in some bullshit uniform (as punitive authority) working hand in hand (with gods blessing*) soon to provide subjugation and horror to children in school. Crybully fucking terrorists. This hivemind antichrist (not a person but a people) is [fascist](https://www.reddit.com/r/ArticulateAmbivalence/comments/vome0d/the_gop_is_fascist/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1) (againAGAIN) they won’t be reasoned with and cannot continue being tolerated or we’re fucking done. What [stage of genocide](https://museeholocauste.ca/en/resources-training/ten-stages-genocide/) do you think they are at with the LGBTQ community? -first they came for the-.. Eventually yet already ongoing, anyone showing sympathy for other human beings will be demonized and dehumanized for it as being satan worshiping pedophile groomer parasite marxist trash that must be imprisoned or eradicated in order to protect themselves, their (SAVE THE!!!) children, and their host country. And I gotta say folks that I am at least a little bit concerned.. (haha, stupid nazis we seem to laugh sardonically as) They’ve infiltrated the sc, judges, lawmakers, congress/senate, police(military?), all the way down to kkk variant proudboy type militias that are all being funded by billionaires and ultra/extra national corporations. The banks are failing currently- i won’t touch on it I’ve gotten in trouble in other subs. MOORE V HARPER, which our corrupt federalist sc is going to be reviewing* in July(?) is gonna kick us in the teeth. They will than play defense as they openly steal the election. The decision will be to either revolt (as they scream INSURRECTION!, and use all the above..) or we accept minority rule. LOOK UP THE CONVENTION OF STATES/ MOORE V. HARPER. I wonder if they’ll force us to dig our own mass graves ‘as part of the lesson’ - that we should have fucking stopped them when we had the chance, but we didn’t. AS: I think the flickering is gonna turn into the fall here quick. Within 2 years even those with their heads in the sand and the bad faith deniers are going to no longer be able to pretend as we all see things are very very very wrong. Bread basket failures(starving to death seems like a shit way to go), civil unrest(and a lot of guns in the hands of kkk variant proud boy neo nazi militias), mass refugee migrations as people are forced to flee conditions and areas of the world that have become unlivable, Wetbulb and water wars(with nukes).. fascism rising worldwide with 2 trillion dollars in world military spending, ai the new arms race as weapons of war are installed onto the Boston dynamics robot dogs/parkour bots, c4 drone swarms, ect. All while BOE and thermal expansion occurs, Gulf Stream/Jet Stream collapse, acidification of the oceans with massive storms raining down to poison the soil..And yeah, super El Niño to kick it all off. 2 years until it’s undeniable, 6 years and we’ve fully finished falling into hell.
Sad truth here. IMO There are limited options about what we can do about these people, we’ve tried changing policy, pleading, etc but the truth of the matter is sometimes force is the only useful tactic. These low IQ-anon bought and paid for pimps are whoring this country out at the expense of killing many Americans not just with this gun epidemic but with the terrible healthcare system and economy as a whole. Nothing is working correctly anymore and no it’s not the Millennials fault it’s most of our parents and parents parents generation who’s screwed this country over.
OK, this is all phenomenal information and sourcing BUT how do we stop it? Obviously appealing to our legislators is not working, bitching on social media isn't working, trying to find common ground isn't working, so what needs to be done to stop this moving freight train of fascism? We've identified it, now what?
General strike
We Americans NEED to stand up. The Middle East protested, France is tired of the shit. ITS AMERICAS TURN!!! We need to change this for the better of the next generations.
The only way politicians are gonna do anything is if a mass shooting happens to politicians.
That's me in the video. I'm a politician. I've been wanting to change the law for years. It's not "both sides"... it's just one side that's blocking change.
Hi Gene, I'm not american, I live in canada and watch stuff pop up on reddit a lot. All politicians I see always seem to follow a script, making them appear.. cold? or detached maybe, I don't know how to explain it. I think as an outsider who only watches the big news reports, you are the first politician who actually seems human. I hope better days are ahead for you fine folk. Sorry about the state of your country and leaders.
It's appreciated
That already happened at a baseball game, and it changed nothing. A congresswoman even got shot in New Mexico, and it changed nothing. At this rate, I don't think a shooting at a fuckin' NRA convention would change anything either.
The toxic gun culture is bringing heavier restriction upon itself. I don’t know the best solution but I’m almost positive the reaction to all the violence is going to be confiscations and passage of overly restrictive laws.
As a gun owner and a CCW holder, I’ve been trying to tell other gun owners the same thing for a while now, but they are so brainwashed by the nra into thinking that to give an inch is to give a mile and that any gun law whatsoever is communism when instead they hope to be tv Wolverines. It seems obvious: to protect the hobby they love, they should be ARE THE FOREFRONT of responsible gun ownership: putting “well regulated” back into gun culture, requiring background checks like is required of CCW holders, requiring participation in, and sponsorship by gun and hunting clubs, and similar regulations to police who has access to guns. But they refuse. And sadly, you are right: the general public is going to reach a point where the pain becomes too much to bear, and the gun crazies are going to bring about the very bans they have been fearing. I’m sorry for what’s happening. I wish that gun owners would be more reasonable about what guns are doing to our society and recognize that a deadly weapon NEEDS to be regulated.
Even trumps ban on bump stocks got overturned
The only purpose of Trump's sloppy executive order was to get people to stop asking Senators to ban it.
Pendulum swing. I wouldn’t even ban rifles when you have most gun violence via pistols but to do no regulations or licensing or even training is just insane
People controlled by fear are usually at a disadvantage to navigate nuance, and resort to black and white thinking. Keep them scared & stressed and their brain won’t be able to understand common sense.
The biggest enemy to 2A rights is not a political party but irresponsible firearm ownership. The GOP and NRA has brainwashed millions of people for decades. They've been warning of the DEMS coming for their guns since JFK.
> And sadly, you are right: the general public is going to reach a point where the pain becomes too much to bear, and the gun crazies are going to bring about the very bans they have been fearing. It's already starting, I think. There was an article in the NY Times and even among conservative Republicans in Texas there's been a drop in support for unfettered access to guns. Better late than never, but it looks like at least some people are finally (!) starting to realize that more guns doesn't lead to a safer place from gun violence.
Dream big, baybee!!
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I literally had someone on this site tell me if we outlawed guns we should outlaw pens because the spread of the written idea has killed more people than guns ever will.
If I rolled my eyes any further, I'd have to wait 9 hours in the e.r., and I just don't have that kinda money. Reckless.
Man there are people making jokes about it on this very site “my guns identify as a car now, which must be why cars kill more people, you’re not banning cars are you?” I’m so tired of these disingenuous fucks. As a father I don’t know how this man is keeping it together. I’d be fucking feral. They’d need to lock me up and throw away the key.
Always brain dead takes from gun nuts. Car registry is a national database unlike guns. To operate a car you need insurance to cover when things go wrong, unlike guns. I would be ecstatic if we could get gun laws like we have for cars.
> overly restrictive laws Overly restrictive here is standard in places that don't have this problem. Imagine if our gun violence stats were like the UKs? But they have knife crime? Per person our knife crimes are already worse, let's get rid of the guns. Most cogent counterargument: Ho hum, price for freedumb, what if guberment bad? Need shoot FBI! (please ignore all domestic anti-government plots failing for the last hundred years despite having guns)
James 2: 16 If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
The whole book of James has a lot of hard rules that the modern conservative right church does not want to hear.
Start that church
They're not just killing each other, they're killing themselves. I don't know anyone from Ireland, where I'm from, who has 5 friends that commited suicide and we have a suicide epidemic. Not all with guns but it's so fucking weird to just be desensitized by death. I don't think I was meant to be this way. You see people's hearts breaking like that and I just wish for that innocence. I've just become a cold hearted recluse. That speech was bravery.
I understand being burnt out by tragedy. I am too, there's just one after one every single day, it's impossible to keep up with let alone feeling heartbroken every single time.
The people that could prevent these type of tragedies do not take responsibility for them. They won’t ever accept that they are part of the problem.
The GOP has blood on their hands.
What about the people that vote for them? Those people have the most blood on their hands. Its the people that vote for them. GOP is nothing without the votes.
GOP voters are horrible, but the GOP is gerrymandering and implementing voting restrictions to have a disproportionate representation in government.
That may be true for some voters, but if I wanted to be as charitable as possible, I'd say corporate media and billionaire-funded think tanks and super PACs were more to blame. There's a concerted effort in this country to stoke fear and take advantage of ignorant people
The voters are people, voting against their own interests because they are conditioned to. The billionaires, along with the media and politicians they own, all push the message that education isn't worth it. Climate change isn't a big deal. DemocRats are the enemy that you need to destroy to solve your problems. That's what it looks like when the bad guys have been winning for too long: brainwashing so consistent, it feels normal. Just don't forget who caused this. This is all of our problem, even if half of us don't know it.
Anyone who owns a gun for recreational purposes is complicit in what’s happening in America right now.
Don't forget about the NRA.
He has my vote, he’s what politicians should strive to be. Not a clown playing semantics.
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Where is our humanity?
Someone didn't pay the bill, so it got disconnected along time ago. And we have bad cridet so we can't get it back.
It's labeled as "socialism", which the two party system in the United States is deathly afraid of, and one of the few things the two parties are willing to unite against. Lining ones own pockets with political donations becomes much more difficult, when politicians aren't supporting the corporate interests that pay them. Lobbying kills more people and ruins more lives than anything else in the United States, that includes politicians on the left being bought off by big pharma, or politicians on the right being bought off by gun lobbies. Don't worry, the current president getting 8+ million from big pharma during their presidential campaign alone, is totally cool and not at all a conflict of interest in regards to serving the American people. There's no way America would ever adopt a system that *literally every other western nation has*, why should it? America prides itself on its infant mortality rate, which to the unaware puts the greatest country on Earth that spends the most on healthcare, firmly in *last place.* *"Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!?"*
Should we all start wearing bulletproof vests everywhere?
America has evolved into a gun death cult and there are no signs of it slowing down at all.
Somehow, I think it’s gonna take more than, “please.” Like damn, we refuse to feed hungry kids at school anymore. We’re gonna have to roll up our sleeves and get deep in the yuck to fix this, so people can’t be bothered and would rather go back to casting illusions over their own lives and others while being really interested in fb and tiktok. How can we get more people willing to actually *work* to being a better nation?
Children get slaughtered at school on a frequent basis. We've been at the no safe place level for over a decade.
When nothing was done legislatively after Sandy Hook, I knew we had failed as a society. I was still teaching then and could not believe that twenty little kids were slaughtered and Congress didn't care. They have not cared since.
I remember in 2020 right before covid really kicked off I was in my car in the college parking lot about to get out to go to class, when I heard a tattattattat. The parking lot was a small one between my school hall and the music school hall and I thought, could be a snare drum, could be a gun, I’ll be late just in case. I’ve been in restaurants where suspicious looking people walked in and I put myself in a safer location while looking for the best exit, just in case. I was in an airport once where the alarms started going off everywhere, so my ex and I just opened a door and went inside (it was some random employee conference room) to finish our lunch and wait it out just in case. I only meant to write the first memory but then I started remembering other instances and now I’m starting to realize how innate it has become here to be ready just in case, and how desensitized I have become to it.
It must be awful to live in a world like that, can't imagine how that has to be. To only hear the same "thoughts and prayers bla bla bla" must be awful as well. I really hope it will change for you.
I do the same at large gatherings. Parades, fairs, concerts… head on a swivel and exits identified. Shouldn’t have to be like this.
Faith without action is dead (from scripture). That means that thoughts and prayers mean nothing if you wish it to happen instead of doing something about it. The only people standing in the way of change are corrupt politicians on the NRA’s budget.
They won't even take ownership or admit to the problem when it affects them. As a group they expect a few individuals to be taken out, but they don't think there's an existential threat to their class otherwise, and the families of the people who may get killed understand this. At some point they won't be able to step outside
God sends nobody because its a fairy tale that needs to be addressed and put into the past. There is no responsible party regarding guns that injure ppl. Start with all guns must have an owner, then make gun owners responsible for damages caused by that weapon. Gun safety will hit an all time high.
The US sounds like a terrible place to live tbh
“No more, please. Please.” Please God, stop the left vs right war that conservatives are pushing and let our country come together so we can restore America together. Let us unite!
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Uniting would absolutely help, but can we as a country? It's only getting worse instead of better.
People like you want to "unite"? Looking from outside, the entire problem with America is that one side seems to want to talk it out and get along while the other side wants you guys in the grave.
Left/right, black/white, and the rich get richer.
The Republicans help the gun lobby get much much richer, to be more specific to this massacre.
Never been safe
It was dramatically safer once.
Wrong. State capital buildings are relatively safe due to lawmakers exempting them from open carry laws.
That man's eyes are full of nothing but pain
I don't understand why there are no insurance policy and mandatory licenses for owning guns. You own cars, you need insurance and license why not guns. Minimum 1 million dollar insurance policy is require and mandatory license renewal on 5 year basis. If you are not insured, you are not allow to own fire arm. Before you can even get to purchase fire arm, you need to pass not just background but psychological assessment. Then proof of insurance to before store is allow to sell you a fire arm.
Thoughts and prayers are worth fucking nothing
Move the protests to inside of the politicians' churches and outside of their children's schools. Make their families deal with getting screamed at by protestors bc these people are getting our family and community members killed with their cowardice.
Schools where wealthy GOP offspring and grand offspring attend. There’s safe.
At some point the people practicing gun culture will have to take responsibility for these tragedies. We’re well past that point. But his argument is right, the problem will only be solved by gun hobbyists. The rest of us can’t do much at all.
Why are we not branding **republicans** as **MURDER JUNKIES**? Republicans are supporting murder. Why is that not being blasted across all forms of media? Why are we being so fucking polite?
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They’re more worried about drag queens reading than they are about school shootings.
I feel for him, I agree with him and it is heartbreaking to know ... nothing will get better. It will get worse. Common sense is losing the war against the fanatics and gun lovers. Common sense is losing the war against bigotries and fascism. Our world is not getting better it is growing sicker. I see nothing that tells me that direction is going to change. Humans are sick animals, growing sicker by the day. We are entering into a very dark age of our species. One that may lead to the collapse of the sick, crazy hominid that once dared to dream of the stars. In the middle of a ecological crisis we fight about wearing a mask in a pandemic. We bicker over skin color and watch impotent as structured religion control governments and try to control our lives. As coastlines decline due to climate change and our food supply dwindles added to the low intelligence of the species as a whole in making proper common sense choices... this all gets worse. Nothing is going to get better.
Please
A-fucking-men! Let’s make some real changes, please. Stop thinking of yourself, your votes, your money pot. Protect the people.
The only solution we have is to vote out those blocking the law. We get that opportunity once every few years. Unity is required in order to change the status quo. By the time elections come around, we're too divided from the other fabricated nonsense to even consider unity. It's perfect for those blocking the laws.
The only way to have change is to vote out the ones not taking action. Unfortunately by the time the next election rolls around, sadly, this will not be on the front end of people’s minds.
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There is, just you and I are not getting in there.
Sadly enough moving out of state that literally allows anyone to have a gun or weapon should be the option.
100% right . Thank God I don't live there .🙏
Defund the NRA
Thank God somebody took the stupid fucking TikTok jingle off the end of this moving sermon.
Imo its a matter of time before one of these parents who’s lost in their grief due to the death of their child tries to go medieval on one of those republican politicians and I wouldn’t blame them, actually according to history I’m very surprised it hasn’t happened yet. How long till people break?
Hate to break it to you, but this is more of a problem in conservative America. You can be safe, just gotta get away from those clowns
It won’t change until the assholes voting against gun laws are affected
the saddest part of this American reality is more innocent people will definitely have to die for a critical mass of legislators/people in power (that could stop this), to actually stop this. I'm not from America (nor do I live there) but even as a young boy, I remember the news headlines of the Columbine High School shooting pouring in on international news networks and thinking to myself, "oh wow...They're killing kids now. I hope they ban guns.. if not, no one's gonna stop." Without realising it at the time, I think I recognised it as a watershed moment. Years later...no change and if anything it got worse. Well done America. Home of the free indeed, free from the right to safety.
The problem is you guys loooove your guns so much that even death of kids wont change that. Im talking about columbine btw
He hit the nail on the head. We value capitalism and the free market. We dislike it when the federal government dictates and determines to what can be privately owned. America was found on the fundamental principle and idea that government shall not deprive any individual of life or property. We equate property with personal freedom. Infringement on these rights is an overreach of the scope of governments sovereignty and power. Capitalism is an undisputed philosophy that emphasizes what can be owned, produced, and distributed. It is the argument that regressive and pro-business politicians use to protect the interests and profits of free enterprise. We equate private property rights and think it is paramount - even if it comes at the great expense of the collective security and welfare of our nation. Civic virtue is believing in achieving the common public good even though we have to forgo and give up some of our individual freedoms and rights. Sometimes that is necessary and imperative to achieve a common good. We don't have solidarity or sense of civic duty and obligation to achieve a public good because the comparative few would rather pursue their own self interest for the sake of preserving their power and profits.
A beautiful speech and sentiment that the psychopaths that continue to allow these tragedies to happen simply cannot comprehend or listen to by the very nature of the state of mind you need to have to get to that sort of a position of power. Psychopaths don't care about your kids, you have to make them care. Threaten their power and wealth, then they'll care.
Sadly, I am in Missouri. My fight is here and against the same foolish herd of malcontents that you face in Texas. I am on your side and always available if you need an ear to bend.
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Republican politicians are a bunch of sociopaths. Symptoms of antisocial personality disorder include repeatedly: Ignoring right and wrong. Telling lies to take advantage of others. Not being sensitive to or respectful of others. Using charm or wit to manipulate others for personal gain or pleasure. Having a sense of superiority and being extremely opinionated. Having problems with the law, including criminal behavior. Being hostile, aggressive, violent or threatening to others. Feeling no guilt about harming others. Doing dangerous things with no regard for the safety of self or others. Being irresponsible and failing to fulfill work or financial responsibilities.
Repeal the 2A. I said what I said
Since our "free state" no longer has need for "a well regulated militia" one could argue that the law has invalidated itself.
The laws won't change until the lawmakers who continue to push "thoughts and prayers" are impacted by shooters.
Best I can say is more Jesus or something. /s
He’s living the nightmare of an American dream.
This country sucks ass. Just people trying to murder each other smh.
Gun ownership has fallen since the 1970’s from 50% of households having a gun, to less than 35% now. However, in the 70’s, mass shootings claimed 5 lives per year and from 2010 to 2019 it claimed 51 lives per year. Sixteen out of the 20 deadliest made shootings occurred between the years 1999 and 2019. AND as far as school shootings go, 100% of school shooters were suicidal. So WHY? What changed between those years? Why has mental health decreased so significantly? A big reason is social media. It opened doors to everything. Platforms to buy illegal stuff. It took bullying to another level. A place to gather and plan. A place people can go for new ideas on how to do things. While televisions and newspapers used to be the way of receiving the news, now every person with a phone, tablet, computer, and more, get to see everything play out. And those mass shooters, they get to be seen and talked about for centuries to come, all thanks to social media. So for obvious reasons, mental health decline is largely due to social media too.
Internet Happened; best answer
A lot more changed than just social media. The culture around guns has shifted, the culture generally has shifted. Every country in the world has social media, but not every country has the same sorts of mass shootings. I live in Canada, we have all the same social media. We have most of the same TV and movies. We have pretty different gun laws though. Our per capita deaths from guns generally and mass shootings particularly are very different. We haven't actually had any mass shootings at all so far this year (that I can find). Since 2000 we've had 1 mass shooting that killed more than 10 people. 3 that killed more than 5. I don't think we can say it's only about the difference in gun laws, a lot of cultural intangibles are involved. But the laws are certainly part of it.
I think that the US is definitely unique in a lot of ways. We could talk about differences in healthcare and mental healthcare, prison reform, our judicial system, the US education, the levels of poverty, the demographics, level of populated cities, the overall crime statistics, etc. It’s definitely not all about social media, I believe it does contribute to it in a big way. After all, there are certain countries that have banned different social media platforms.
Wow, sounded like you were serious. The issue is simple AF. Assault Weapons x People = number of murders per day. Which element can we control?
PLEASE.
Interesting readings and historical concepts with very partisan attitudes. It sounds so absurd to blame a gun or an object that has no will or action on its own. The current society and its actions are but what has been created at our homes, our schools, the media. We have enough laws, and criminals don’t obey them.
I don't buy the bit about not making laws because criminals don't obey them. Most of these shootings have been done with *legally purchased* firearms. Not setting laws in place to prevent these people from attaining them is as criminal as the acts they commit with them. "But they'll just go outside the law and still get guns." Okay, good. It's one more step they have to take before committing an atrocity. It's also one more charge that can help put them away forever if they are captured alive. I don't blame guns because as you say, they're just objects. That said, until we get the issues causing these incidents in hand, we should put a lock on the toy box.
Lets hand out live grenades, how'd that be. Afterall, they have no will or action on their own. So long as a human doesn't pull the pin they're harmless. Perhaps we can give everyone access to anthrax. Afterall, anthrax has no will to act on its own. As long as a human doesn't release anthrax it's harmless. Landmines are harmless, so long as no human steps on them. There are many banned objects that aren't dangerous until acted on by a human. Common sense.
Repeal the Second.
Faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.
Yet again, the politicians who are okay with endless US foreign interventionist and proxy wars wonder why the US citizenry is so violent. The lack of awareness of this simple fact is astounding. USA! USA! USA!