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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (lemmy.ml)

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Here we go again...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This timeline is a bad one. We need father time to make the old in power fade away so we can attempt to fix what the worst generation has broken.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

As disturbing as these mass shootings are, they're still very rare. The vast majority of Americans will never be in a mass shooting, let alone tourists who only visit occasionally.

It's telling that most American police officers go their entire career without shooting their guns except at the firing range.

But, it is a sign of US dysfunction that the problem is so obvious but there's zero chance of the problem being solved any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are still a lot of gun homocides. Mass shootings are only part of the story.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I think that depends where you go. I live in BC but go to Washington all the time and it feels pretty much just as safe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It was in the news in the UK a few years ago that a doctor visited the US to see some of his family that lived there, and while he was asleep in bed a stray bullet hit him and he died. Obviously I'm sure these things are unlikely but it's still kind of scary. That and I find the idea of walking around and having deranged psychos all around me potentially having a gun and them being able to pull it out and end my life at any moment kind of... unpleasant.