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⌈ Secret Post #3193 ⌋

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[Da Vinci's Demons]

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[Raffles by E.W. Hornung]

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[Avengers: Age of Ultron]

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[Wreck It Ralph]

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Right, because this never happens anywhere else in the world.

Ummmmm...... rarely.

Not to the extent it does here. Australia passed sweeping gun control legislation years ago and somehow they seem to be doing all right. They don't have to worry about turning on the news only to hear about this seemingly every other fucking month.

Australian here and this seems very much an alien US-specific problem to us. Not something I fear. Guns are currently still very rarely used against the public - most shootings are drug related. Only hunters and crims tend to own them or want to. No one I know feels they need to be armed in any way for self-defence.

Seriously tempted to move there. If only I had the money...

Isn't that where everything on the internet is restricted?

Hm. I honestly don't know. Is it?

Re: Oregon shooting

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last i heard i think we were the biggest pirates of GoT

so, i guess not

Well...they try to. The biggest restriction is how fucking slow the internet is.

I like living in Australia. The politicians are retrogressive idiots and there's some shit racism going on but compared to the US, eh I'll take here. The pollies haven't completely dismantled social welfare/healthcare yet. It's pretty peaceful. The climate is nice. There's a lot of open space. Things mostly do not want to kill you, despite our conscious propaganda to the contrary.

Only thing is that it's a total fortress wrt migrants, even whites, but for those from the US it seems to be a lot easier for some (lol) reason. Marriage or qualifications do help tho.

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I wouldn't necessarily say it's a gun issue, though. I live in a rural part of the US where most everyone owns at least one gun (for hunting or for chasing away coyotes from their livestock) and we haven't had any shootings or anything like that here. The worst thing that's happened was someone's dog getting shot a while back because it was running loose and someone mistook it for a coyote.

If it were an issue with access to guns, then people here would be getting shot left and right and that simply doesn't happen.

rural populations are minuscule in comparison to densely populated areas. densely populated areas, by nature, contain more people and within that population there will be more people who wish to do harm to others.

without guns, these people will still find ways to harm others. but access to guns makes this much easier for them and allows for the damage to be large scale. not everyone can successfully build a bomb, but most people can learn to successfully load and shoot a gun.

Every now and then it happens. A farmer not far from where I live shot his neighbor in the course of a dispute over land.

He tried to claim it was self-defense, but he also tied the neighbor's body to the tail of his pickup and dragged the dead man around the disputed field several times before hiding it in a ditch, and I don't think that helped his case.

Schools getting shot up by sociopathic teenage boys 40+ times a years? Nah, that's not really a thing in the rest of the world.

Around here there's a record of 0 school, college or university shootings.

And shootings in public places? Are very rare and I have yet to hear about one that isn't crime related.

Outside of literal warzones? It really doesn't.

It really, really doesn't.

Question for you: How many more children being shot dead would it take for your country to stop bowing to the gun lobby and the NRA, and actually put in some gun control laws?

Seriously. For all the "pro-life" talk that's been going on lately with the whole Planned Parenthood thing, it's amazing how little we seem to be willing to do for children after they're born, especially when it comes to circumstances like this.

I watched Obama's speech this morning on the news. I could tell how sad he was. No leader should have to give essentially the same speech 15 times to grieving relatives, over something so preventable.

I have yet to see it, but someone shared a link, so I'll watch it shortly.

My mom said he looked pissed. Certainly don't blame him.

That was some impressive leap you made to go from gun control to abortion rights. Wow.

Yeah but it's the same people talking about the ~sanctity of life.

There is definitely some irony in the rhetoric, though, when you have such a huge overlap between the pro-life people, and the people against gun-control laws.

Not really. We talk all the time about how "pro-life" we are, and obviously I don't think most people who like guns were HAPPY about Sandy Hook or Columbine or things like that happening.

But considering the whole "Think of the children!" mantra we hear anytime children are exposed to anything that might warp their impressionable young minds, considering we go on and on about how life is sacred and we value the lives of children, even before they're born, and so on, you have to admit that it does seem a bit odd, then, how numerous children being massacred in school shootings or shootings in other public places, or in their own homes, doesn't seem to be enough to make us say, "You know, maybe we should do more to change our laws about guns and the ability for people to get a hold of them."

All I'm saying is that if we supposedly care about the lives of children, like we claim we do when it comes to any other "Think of the children!" issue-abortion, what they see and hear on TV, what they learn in school, etc.-then we should prove it by doing something about the effect our gun culture and gun laws have on their lives, too.

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The US is very militaristic. They want more children to be born so that when these children reach adulthood, they can be sent into the next big war. The religious pro-life shit is just a cover that many idiots with no government connections buy into.