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[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

easy and cheap ways to buy guns

create a system with no hope to move up in life when you're poor

have a news media that creates paranoia, to sell ads

Yea it's sooooo weird "How the FUCK is captialism the cause of mass shootings lol"

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee -2 points 10 months ago

Those things aren't exclusive to or indicative of a capitalistic society. The latter two reasons you describe also exist in authoritarian socialist and communist countries, yet those don't lead to mass shootings.

In fact, there are capitalist countries that have easy access to guns that don't experience mass shootings on the scale of the US. Look at Canada, for example, who rank 7th in gun ownership per capita but have experienced four total mass shootings compared to 101 in the USA. (sauce: https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/mass-shootings-by-country/ and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country)

I don't think capitalism is the best system, especially not on its own, but none of the responses I've gotten have argued why capitalism is the cause of mass shootings. There are way too many cultural and historical factors involved to say that it's exclusively the fault of the economic structure of the US.

You guys can all downvote as much as you want but it seems no one actually has anything more to say than "capitalism bad" so they harvest some internet points.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The nra is allowed to "lobby" the government to tell them all how great guns are. How do you retards not see that's a problem with capitalism lol.

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

Is a government caving in to the interests of the rich exclusive to capitalism?

I think you'd probably have a more sound argument if you spent less time calling people retards and instead actually argued your point. Unless you really don't know why you hate capitalism other than that it's the spooky boogeyman for lemmy users.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Is a government caving in to the interests of the rich exclusive to capitalism?

I don't know, I haven't tried the other sorts of economic organization! Let's find out, yeah?

this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
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