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I updated the trolley experiment now that the never ending flood of public shootings found a target...
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this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
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I hadn't thought of it until you mentioned all the public shootings, but a lot of mass shooters just want to be remembered for something. Turning the New York shooter into a folk hero is going to inspire a lot of armed crazy people.
Makes me wonder if now we get reasonable gun control.
CEO shootings are now just a fact of life in America...
Don’t do that, don’t give me hope
Nuthin we can do about it, I guess. 🤷
Maybe if the mass shooters realize that killing innocent people isn't gonna make the people like them, they'd change their targets?
Maybe... 👀
If I recall, gun control laws in nazi Germany were loosened, but only for nazi party members.
I'm sure they'll craft something that keeps them out of the hands of everyone but the SA and SS.
Yeahhhh but that's like the FP-45 Liberator gun going up against an AK, let alone tanks and drones. Nobody is using plastic guns for a reason, forgetting the fact that the plastics supply could be tamped and they still require machined parts if the new nazi party really wanted to crack down on that. Leaving aside that the printers necessary to do this so it won't blow up in your face are not exactly low-level consumer-grade and easily controlled on the market. At that point we're basically back to pipe guns.
It's from the 1990s but still relevant.
"War And Anti-War" by Alvin Toffler. Even before 9/11 he predicted that there'd be a major war against a non-government entity like ISIS. He used the term 'anti-war' to mean a war completely different from the old style of conflict.
Just don't mention the four winds shotgun, and we'll make it through these difficult times together.
I knew I bought a C&C machine for a reason, other than it was used and only $1500
Damn, good deal!
Hmmmm...
Mass shooters stop targeting schools and start going after the 0.01%?
That's one way to get gun control.
I'm thinking 2 more CEOs and we get the Republicans calling for gun control.
I'd give it 3, just to be contrarian.
A Baker's Dozen even
Ugh, and what you just wrote makes me think that the right wing is probably predictably talking about how much of a leftist the killer was and trying to find any way to play up just what a Democrat they must have been. Because it must be thrilling for them to have the rare kind of political violence happen: the kind not perpetrated by a right winger.
Nah, that's silly, clearly the situation didn't have enough guns. /s
No, America never will. The NRA lobby is too strong. You'd have to completely outlaw lobbyists first.
Exactly. Republicans will just push for more funding for police officers.