• @HappycamperNZ
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    2 months ago

    In living memory.

    I can’t guarantee America has had less than 2 in the last 48 hours.

    • @Wilzax
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      52 months ago

      The US has 55 times as many people living in 36 times as much land and with nearly no restrictions on firearm ownership in the majority of the country. Recipe for a fuckload of mass shootings

      • @HappycamperNZ
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        112 months ago

        It really is.

        I do hope you aren’t excusing it, but by that logic NZ should have a mass shooting roughly every 4 months by comparison.

        • @Wilzax
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          52 months ago

          You don’t excuse a disease, you analyze why it’s happening and figure out how to cure it. Understanding the scale of the host is step one. Understanding what other hosts are doing differently, the extent to which it’s working for them, and what effect you could hope to see by mimicking them is step two. In the US, actually implementing any improvement requires relatively broad understanding of what exactly is wrong, how to fix it, and how we know the fix will work without also costing so many people their “freedom” to own a ridiculously efficient killing machine that the improvement doesn’t get shot down. That’s step 3