But it's not the guns

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But it's not the guns

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Here in my neck of the woods, a few weeks ago, a school campus monitor at a middle school was shot.

The bullet that hit him was fired blocks away from the school, in an (un)related shooting.

The amount of shootings that need to take place, for something like that to even be plausible (given the size of a bullet, the size of the amount of space not occupied by people, etc.) is bonkers.
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I have to admit that I really don't like going to crowded venues anymore because in the back of my mind, I'm thinking I'm walking into a place with the best chance of a high body count.

I hate what the media and politicians have done to this country.
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Texas woman killed by stray bullet while sleeping at home
I thought she was killed picking up her daughter's prom dress.
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Might the shooter offer a defense of impaired judgment from being part of the Texas gun culture?
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Republicans are turning this country into a nightmare. They want to try out Hobbes’ vision of life without society.
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Res Ipsa wrote:
Tue May 16, 2023 5:04 pm
An armed society is a dead society.
How do we disarm society?
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Dr. Shades wrote:
Wed May 17, 2023 12:59 pm
Res Ipsa wrote:
Tue May 16, 2023 5:04 pm
An armed society is a dead society.
How do we disarm society?
Ask Australia. They did it.
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Dr. Shades wrote:
Wed May 17, 2023 12:59 pm
Res Ipsa wrote:
Tue May 16, 2023 5:04 pm
An armed society is a dead society.
How do we disarm society?
We had better find a way to do it! The situation is only bound to get worse unless we can convince the vast majority of the voters to vote out of office all the hard right MAGA idiots who insist that the 2nd Amendment means that anybody is guaranteed the right to own any types and quantities of guns or weapons they can afford to buy without limits or even the most common-sense safety regulations. Insisting that even more guns are the answer is as stupid as trying to smother a fire by dousing it with gasoline, and then concluding that when the fire only got worse, it was because we just didn't use enough gasoline!
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Some Schmo wrote:
Wed May 17, 2023 1:40 pm
Dr. Shades wrote:
Wed May 17, 2023 12:59 pm

How do we disarm society?
Ask Australia. They did it.
Very good point! Unfortunately, however, a distressingly large proportion of far-right, fanatical conservatives refuse to accept even the mere suggestion that there is any virtue in disarming society!
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