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  • That doesn’t make a murder/suicide a “mass shooting”. I’m sorry apporoaching this rationally has you so upset

    Thanks, I love this reply. It’s only two sentences, but its so fantastically revealing.

    The first sentences calls your very own example a “murder/suicide”, a term which is unquestionably more misleading than “mass shooting”. The “murder” isn’t even plural, despite there being 4 of them.

    If you gathered up a million people, told half of them it was a murder/suicide and half of them it was a mass shooting, then asked them to guess the number of people killed, the latter would easily be closer to the truth.

    The second sentence just makes it clear you’re a fuckstain.


  • My agenda is “words mean things”

    If that was actually your agenda, this wouldn’t be your position. You want to lower the statistic using semantics and as an added bonus, take away the vocabulary needed to discuss a huge percentage of gun violence.

    The difference is, in scenario #1, nobody went to the party intending to shoot anyone. You can’t say the same for scenario #2.

    5 people were shot. Intentional vs accidental, premeditated vs impulse, none of that changes the fact that 5 people were shot and the event was a mass shooting.

    Even in your own example that you made as contrived as you needed, 3 innocent people were still shot and swept under the rug.

    The organizations you’re rallying against are completely open about their definitions, making them far more honest than you’re being.

    I’m sorry if that hurts your guns feelings.


  • It matters because the Gun Violence Archive and the uncritical mass media are inflating the statistic to make people scared so they can push an agenda

    Bullshit. You’re attacking it because it’s counter to your agenda.

    Republicans, right-wing media, the gun lobby and the pro-gun community routinely fearmonger as a way to boost their own profits and power.

    Not only do you not care when they do it, you’ve enthusiastically put yourself and your own family in more danger because of it.

    You’re hopelessly compromised and your thoughts about how gun violence statistics are about as trustworthy as a cops views on police brutality statistics.


  • You have no idea how badly you’ve outed yourself as living in a little bubble where you think it will never happen to you, so you don’t care.

    Because you’ll never be in a relationship with a domestic abuser that executes a house full of people will you? You’re the gun owning male, so you get to decide who around you lives or dies.

    4 innocent people were killed – a number that is much more difficult to achieve without a gun – but you don’t want them counted because they knew the gun owner.

    You’ve let the gun lobby turn you into a fucking sociopath.



  • I didn’t claim the number could be 0, I claimed the acceptable number is 0.

    Following every one of those shootings you linked, people demanded to know how it happened. Why did they have a gun? Was there warning signs that were missed? Was anybody negligent? How can we stop it from happening again and limiting the damage if it does?

    That is the reaction of a society that finds any number above 0 unacceptable. They treat mass shootings as a failure of the system.

    Meanwhile in America, they don’t bother to ask those questions.

    They had a gun because it’s trivial to get your hands on semi-automatic rifles and handguns, even if you can’t pass a background check, because there are millions of unsecured weapons and no universal background checks.

    The police and politicians are deliberately negligent, staunchly opposing red flag laws despite most mass shooters having multiple red flags.

    No effort is made to prevent it happening again, because the murder of 20 children is shrugged off as some kind of inevitability, no more preventable than an earthquake or tornado – much the same as you’re doing right now.

    Limiting the damage isn’t just staunchly opposed by the pro-gun community, many of them fully support making more dangerous weaponry available.

    These are not the actions of people who find all gun violence unacceptable and the only reason the Ulvade police are criticized and the Newtown police are given a pass is because the Ulvade police didn’t bother to pretend they cared.







  • The mothers may not even have been alive and medical staff simply can’t evacuate premature babies and all the ICU equipment needed to keep them alive.

    This story is absolutely going to be used as “look how inhuman and barbarous these Palestinians are, good thing we’re genociding them” and your comment is exactly what they’re looking for.

    But the reality is that if you shoot and bomb civilians, then threaten to bomb the hospital they’re being treated at, this could happen anywhere in the world.

    They weren’t leaving babies to die and rot 6 months ago because they weren’t being shelled and shot at and if they weren’t being shelled and shot at now, they wouldn’t have left those babies either.