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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 22 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sociology class I took ages ago mentioned a very strong correlation of domestic violence with football team performance. Basically in the state that the winning team belongs to, their violence rates dip, and the team that lost gets a surge of husbands assaulting/murdering their wives.

Humans are really shitty animals.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

Tom Brady is a hero in Massachusetts bud

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Jeez, getting kicked out of the UCP hit Kenney hard.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 24 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

America has a mental health crisis

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

America has a gun crisis

[–] 100@fedia.io 41 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

is this the "well regulated militia" that everyones talkin about?

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

Is the "well regulated militia" in the room with us

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No, no, that argument fell apart the moment the "well" "regulated" 2A "militia" stepped aside and let fascism in. Now they're just tacticool cosplayers.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

And now we got the paramilitary gravy seals showing up in jungle camo to kidnap tu abuelo in the fucking Walmart parking lot.

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

Holes drilled in the ground to access water should not be managing firearms

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 132 points 11 hours ago (22 children)

"He absolutely destroyed a family," Judd said. "Our homicide detectives are distraught. When you go in there, there is a beautiful Christmas tree with lots of Christmas presents under the tree, just like the nuclear family should be ... and it ends up this way."

Yeah, so maybe, just maybe the drug using alcoholic with anger management issues should not have had a gun. But no, we can't restrict gun ownership, can we. Some old guys a about 250 years ago said we shouldn't do that. So, sorry folks. All you can do is get your own gun and hope you're fast enough to shoot any crazy fucks who come at you before they can shoot you. It's the American way.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 52 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Are you suggesting the ambiguously worded will of the slave owners and their enablers from 250 years ago should be adapted to modern reality? What kind of filthy commie talk is that?

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago

It's not ambiguously worded.

This man was clearly part of a well-regulated militia.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 12 points 9 hours ago

Well, I... um.. er... Hey! What in the world can that be?!

*runs off serpentine fashion in case you are about to pull out a gun*

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world -2 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

So you'd like the state to be the only ones allowed to own lethal weapons? I'm sure that will work out great for everyone who's not a member of the ruling party

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 minutes ago

Literally no one is saying that, but gun enthusiasts have no argument without their straw-men.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 5 points 2 hours ago

No. But, if we are going to allow guns in our society, I want everyone who has one to have passed a thorough class and passed a comprehensive test on gun safety and usage. Further, I want anyone who later demonstrates failure to exercise the lessons taught in those classes to be charged with criminal negligence and lose their right to own a gun.

This asshole had to take a test to get a license to drive, but the most he likely had to do to get a deadly weapon is swear that he's not currently using drugs, and show that he hasn't been convicted nor currently being charged with certain violent crimes.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Doesn't seem to be helping the US at all.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

We do restrict people’s rights to own guns though absolutely no one wants people in jail to have them.

It’s only when you talk about common sense gun restrictions that people lose their minds.

I think if you have a gun you should have to carry liability insurance on it too.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago

NY has some pretty clear laws about mental health history and pistol permits and I've seen Delaware county judges issue them regardless.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -1 points 5 hours ago

Dude had no criminal record so nothing preventing him from owning a gun, BUT... as a coke head, if he was using at the time he bought the gun, he would have had to have lied when filling out the purchase form and that would have been a blocker.

Florida does have a red flag law that could have been used to seize his gun(s).

https://www.fighterlaw.com/how-do-floridas-red-flag-gun-laws-work/

"In 2019, National Public Radio reported that Florida courts had approved 2,500 risk protection orders to confiscate firearms over a period of 1.5 years. That equals out to nearly five people per day that had their firearms seized due to red flag laws–more than any of the other 17 states that have adopted a similar regulation."

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 44 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Mental health in the USA is good.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 22 points 9 hours ago

Definitely a normal country full of well-adjusted people. We can see evidence of that on a daily basis.

[–] OrganicWetNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

This kind of stuff just boggles the mind. I've discussed with my american wife how it's so crazy the volume of insane, violent shit happening in the states compared to the rest of the civilized world and what could the explanation for it be. I'm pretty sure there isn't such a volume of serial killers anywhere else in the world and almost always the most effed up shit that happens in a somewhat civilized country, it's the states.

Incident like this in a european country would probably be the most horrific thing in recent history, lawmakers would scramble to do something about it and it would make headlines for a month. In the states it's just another tuesday afternoon.

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

As a reminder, the cutoff on psychopathy assessment is 5 points higher in the US than elsewhere. You can literally be considered a psychopath by the same assessment elsewhere in the world and be considered just normal in the US

[–] Cloudstash@lemmy.world -3 points 4 hours ago

Where is the news value in this article? This and similar scenarios are equally common to people taking a dump in the morning, maybe make news about that too.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Hope he rots in hell

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