• @EisFrei
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    501 month ago
    • fact of life
    • thoughts and prayers
    • not the time to politicise
  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    171 month ago

    It’s the guns. No reason anybody has to treat guns as sacred.

    • @Ptsf
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      101 month ago

      It’s a lot of things. Not just guns. Switzerland has similar gun ownership rates, but different gun culture and mental health issues as well as a lower wealth divide and less suffering/impoverished people.

      • @Mirshe
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        181 month ago

        Switzerland ALSO has extremely strictly enforced laws on gun storage, harsh restrictions on where you can buy and store ammo (and how much ammo you can have), and a licensure system for private firearm ownership.

        Maybe we could look at those.

        • @Ptsf
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          31 month ago

          Agreed. We should take a holistic approach to solving problems.

        • Rhaedas
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          31 month ago

          Talk of regulations, actual enforcement of existing laws, or just better training and some people only hear “take my guns away!” They want free market rules without consideration of what that causes.

    • @Mango
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      We have loads of reasons. You’ve just decided to oversimplify and cast those reasons aside because you live in cartoon land where people can’t do illegal stuff.

  • @hOrni
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    171 month ago

    It happens so often in the states, that’s not even news.

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s one of four today SO FAR, and while it’s a big one it may not really make news. 7 mass shootings would stay on the news cycle for a few days, though, unless an 8-shootings day pops up… and they do.

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    • 28th July
    • 4th July
    • 5th July – why yes, that is 16 mass shootings in two days.
    • 23rd June

    and one day of NINE MASS SHOOTINGS on the 31 March.

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    The Five Points South district is known for its nightlife. The shooting occurred on Magnolia Avenue, Mr Fitzgerald said.

    Witnesses who were queuing outside a hookah and cigar lounge on Magnolia Avenue at the time told local news site Al.com that some of the gunfire sounded as though it came from a gun converted to be fully automatic.

    • @kholby
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      41 month ago

      I live in Birmingham, just a couple miles from Five Points South. It’s not often I am in the area this late at night, but it’s not unheard of. I’m glad I wasn’t last night.

      I feel for Mayor Woodfin. I know he wants to make positive changes regarding gun violence and gun culture, but the state government wouldn’t dare consider common sense legislation because MUH FREEDOMS.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Yeah: glocks recovered nearby have a plastic mod that causes the pistol to empty a mag in like a second.

  • @Pilferjinx
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    11 month ago

    We can either address the person or the guns. We can’t ban stupid.

  • @[email protected]
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    Gang violence. Only in America. Shameful. /s

    Edited to add the /s, because the sarcasm isn’t as obvious as I thought it was.