Mass Shooting & Gun Violence | LDS Church Attacked

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Molotov Mocktail said:
The national attention on what happened the Ukrainian woman in NC has reminded me of a thought I have on why we do nothing about mass shootings.

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I’ve thought for some time that video and pictures of the carnage at schools where a shooting has occurred would actually get a large enough majority of the public to demand some real change. Without seeing the carnage it’s much easier for many to simply move along and dismiss the weapons overwhelmingly selected for this violence as being part of the problem. If people saw an 8 year old with part of his skull missing, children with bullet holes and appendages barely attached, the classrooms filled with blood and small bodies; if they saw a classroom they couldn’t distinguish from a war zone the needle would move.

To be clear I understand why we don’t see this and I don’t want to see it. But if we’re being honest one of the reasons the NC story is national now is because there’s video. Pictures of the knife attack on girls in England last year led to it being talked about internationally, and fueling more anti-immigrant rhetoric.

The people exploiting the current tragedy absolutely love that there is video of the violence. If it was video of an attack on a school they’d rail against the video and excuse the weapon. The White House address in that case would be how dare the evil democrats exploit the lives of those children.

I don’t see anything that makes me think things are going to change. We’re stuck with assaults on schools and mass killings. We’re stuck with any violence that can be exploited for political gain being used for that purpose. I fucking hate what we’ve become.
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we've gotten way too comfortable referring to the dead as statistics. one of my all-time favorite tweets (the reply, not walsh's fascist nonsense) makes the point succinctly: xwy82855v67d1.png
 
nycfan said:
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There were plenty of guns in the parking lot - some were even visible in gun racks.

I’m for studying medications given of course - that’s the kind of thing that should bd constant. So too should all sorts of other behaviors.
 
How did a 13 year old acquire all of these guns?

Police say they seized 23 guns from the home of a 13-year-old who appeared to idolize mass shooters​


SEATTLE (AP) — A 13-year-old boy who police said appeared to be fixated on school shooters was arrested on charges of unlawful firearms possession and making a threat after they say they found social media posts about intentions to kill and seized 23 guns and ammunition from his home.

The boy pleaded not guilty to a total of five charges, four of them felonies, in juvenile court on Monday, and he was ordered to remain in detention.

apnews.com

Police say they seized 23 guns from the home of a 13-year-old who appeared to idolize mass shooters

Police have arrested a 13-year-old boy in Washington on charges of causing a threat and unlawful possession of a firearm.
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within an hour of Charlie Kirk being shot on a college campus, reports are that multiple people have been shot at Evergreen High School in Colorado - same county as Columbine, I believe.
 
We talk a good deal about the long-term effects on the current college-age generation from having spent some very formative years enveloped by the pandemic...in lockdown.

I suspect that for a great many of them that the very real threat of being shot while attending school (for every actual shooting how many false alarm lockdowns have happened anyway) is at least as salient of a negative life-long impression.

The "other" lockdown.
 
donbosco said:
There were plenty of guns in the parking lot - some were even visible in gun racks.

I’m for studying medications given of course - that’s the kind of thing that should bd constant. So too should all sorts of other behaviors.
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My high school in NY had a rifle club. That was the early 90s. not sure if they still do today. They would go to a field behind the school. It was supervised by a teacher but...
 
altmin said:
My high school in NY had a rifle club. That was the early 90s. not sure if they still do today. They would go to a field behind the school. It was supervised by a teacher but...
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You grew up in NY? I didn't know that.

We didn't have that in NC where I grew up. Probably because they thought we had enough access to guns in our daily lives and the school didn't need to offer that opportunity.
 
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