• @[email protected]
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    4 months ago

    Almost all comments in this chain, and indeed the immediate one you replied to mention “school shooting”.

    Beyond that, schools and dangerous guns existed before 1980.

    Edit even the original meme is about a school shooting

      • @[email protected]
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        44 months ago

        Of course they are, but to suggest the same variables drive a school shooting vs a midnight gas station robbery is silly

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            54 months ago

            Because they’re different crimes with different motives committed by different people under different circumstances.

            Literally the only things in common between the two are firearms, humans being involved, and them both taking place on the planet Earth.

                • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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                  No really, what makes them different, what’s the obvious difference between the kind of person you picture robbing a store and the kind you picture committing a mass shooting?

                  Be bold, tell everyone the difference. Explain to us this essential difference that makes it so important that we segregate mass shootings from all other forms of gun violence as somehow a special sort of case?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    04 months ago

                    What are you on about? The motivations and end goals of an armed robbery and mass shooting are obviously and clearly different.

                    To help you:

                    A robbery tries to acquire things, and the gun is a threat they generally hope to not use (but might be pretty comfortable using).

                    A mass shooting is a terroristic event with the core goal of killing as many as possible.

                    A thief isn’t necessarily interested in killing. A mass shooter is.

                    Simple stuff.