Message from @Grenade123
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I'd hate to be killed by an outside agency
Suicide is at least concentual
130 people and they consider that on the level of 9/11? Cute.
Yes, they do.. Because is it politically expedient.
You have to understand that china is an authoritarian police state
The Middle East is looking at us like “3000 casualties? That’s cute.”
Then again, Malt, we considered Oklahoma City to be our "9/11" before 9/11
This exact kind of thing is what the government is supposed to prevent
And it was 168 dead
Oklahoma was at least a Federal building blown up. I also don't remember much back then about the response.
China harps on the Uighur knife incident because it fits their narrative that the Uighurs are terrorists and need to be put down
Who was in that federal building? Children. A child care!
If people are killing each other it means they're angry. If they're killing themselves it means they have no hope .
That Ryder truck went off right next to the child care. It was awful.
Id prefer to live in an angry nation than one without hope.
@Blackhawk342 - word
Still, I don't like the idea of dying to someone else's tantrum
No one does and thats why we take precautions
The real solutions wont be economic ones, they will be social
thats what a personal firearm is for
Additionally, if you take a look at mass shootings in the US youll find that around 1990 they increase in both number of incidents and casualties per incident
Prior to the 1980s most shootings were limited to a handful of casualties and didnt cross the threshold for mass shootings
until you go back to the 20s
In 1990 the gun free zone act was passed through congress. Schools and other public spaces became no gun zones for private citizens.
1990's saw the assault weapon ban too no?
yeap it went through in 1994 i think
thats what the wiki for it says
The gun free zone act was supposed to prevent anger focused shootings in schools by removing the tool from the area. Theory being that if they didnt have immedate access to a gun theyd cool off and decide not to kill.
how often to mass shootings occur in gun free zones? Of the few before 1980, how many occurred in places viewed as gun free (such as churches)?
I can tell you that in the 2000s and 2010s theyve become far more common than they were prior to 1980
i wish people would look at the gun murder statistics and realize that mass shootings are incredibly rate in terms of percentage of incidents, and that the majority of gun murders are gang related. that's where the bulk of the death is, and that's what needs to be focused on in terms of change
The deaths per incident have also gone up on average
interesting as the overall gun violence goes down, mass shootings has gone up.
@Atkins that is true. The media normally only makes it into a public emergency if it happens in suburban white communities
Murder is very common in ghetto communities. More so for blacks but white ghettos are violent as well.
run down trailer park ≤ low income housing
It is also pretty dirty how a lot of statistics include gun related suicides as well.
This segment is a total kek fest: