Today's shooting in America thread

Forget mass shootings and ‘they’ve all got mental health issues, just look at the ’rest’.
Since MAY 1st.
119 teenagers dead from gunshots
35 people ‘unintentionally’ shot dead
Excluding the Texas mass shooting, 35 children shot dead
Over 2000 injured by firearms.

50+ under 11’s shot dead ‘accidentally’ since January 1st.
Annually.
5500 under 17’s killed or injured of which over 1000 are 11 or under.

24000+ suicides by gun annually as well.

Even more bizarrely, the only figures going down year on year are guns being deployed for ‘defensive use’…

Its certainly a buggered up system.
Now they're banning abortions and contraceptives, they need some kind of population control I suppose
 
Agree. You need to attack this problem from both ends. How did he buy this gun at 18? More to the point why is he allowed to buy this gun at 18?

Tighter gun laws will help.
We don’t get tighter gun laws unless gunowners support them and advocate for them and are willing to sacrifice their own time and money to abide by them because even though they are responsible and law-abiding, they believe access restriction and taxation and PSA funding and storage spot checks and bans on certain weapons are better for all.

As a rule, they aren’t. And sure — we shouldn’t expect people to vote against their own self-interest. That’s why it takes courage and empathy and some level of selflessness to do so. If that were an inherent part of the average gunowner’s make-up, they wouldn’t own a gun to begin with.

So it’s a circular reference.
 
We don’t get tighter gun laws unless gunowners support them and advocate for them and are willing to sacrifice their own time and money to abide by them because even though they are responsible and law-abiding, they believe access restriction and taxation and PSA funding and storage spot checks and bans on certain weapons are better for all.

As a rule, they aren’t. And sure — we shouldn’t expect people to vote against their own self-interest. That’s why it takes courage and empathy and some level of selflessness to do so. If that were an inherent part of the average gunowner’s make-up, they wouldn’t own a gun to begin with.

So it’s a circular reference.
Summed up as 'Turkeys don't vote for Thanksgiving'.
 
This is what the US is up against, people!

vests to go with it.

Not long ago we would have just presumed that was satire. What a fucking state the western world is in. The Chinese must be laughing their collective cocks off.............
 

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