• doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Call it a mental health problem, a societal health problem, whatever. Unless we accept that wanting to slaughter the people around you is an unfixable natural quirk of some people’s human experience, then this cannot be purely a gun control issue.

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      1 year ago

      This shit is a recent phenomena and I asked myself what changed since the 90s? That’s when this shit really started popping off…

      Only thing I can think of is access to the internet. Before that, struggling kids were benign by themselves. But now they have open access to others like them, and they can foment together. Throw in copy cat behavior and access to guns, that’s the recipe.

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Sounds good.

      The gun control crowd can stop mass murderers, criminals and domestic abusers from buying legal, semi-automatic weapons (as well as dumbshit gun owners leaving unsecured firearms around to be stolen or used in their childs suicide).

      This will keep everyone much safer while the pro-gun crowd get to work on curing every mental health issue forever, fixing wealth inequality, banning video games and schools with too many doors and whatever other things they think are the root of the problem.

      Until they do, indiscriminately selling guns to people clearly isn’t working.

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      1 year ago

      The fact that you keep arguing how much of a gun control issue it is amongst other contributing factors is almost as big if the reason as the lack of gun control. Its been more than 20 years since Columbine, grow the fuck up and start doing something, WHICH INCLUDES gun control

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      1 year ago

      Personally, I don’t want to believe that wanting to brutally murder people around you is an innate human characteristic.