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Between all the “replacement theory”, stripping people of their rights, policing people’s bodies, anti-welfare for worker policies and the stringent, corrupt support of the gun lobbies, it’s safe to say that conservative thinking and philosophy has become a gigantic problem for the US.
The kind of things they are pushing now are literally leading to people dying and real discontent and fear in the country.
Was going to say this, it's widely known and has been stated by experts that most of the checkpoints and rituals we go through are theater and are there to make the public feel safe. If they happen to catch a particularly inept terrorist wannabe, great (especially for optics). A very low percentage of flights with armed undercover air marshals (not to mention not wanting to use a gun on a plane in the air in the first place, even if it becomes necessary). And yes, we do need to work on getting rid of some types of firearms or at least regulating them slowly over time. It's just that one side sees every sensible measure supported even by their base and a majority of card-carrying NRA members as a slippery slope on the path to a total ban on firearms, despite all reason and logic (which is a theme with that party).
It's not a flimsy one in a world in which we have not only a standing army (no guarantee at the time of the founding), but a navy, air force, space travel capability and satellite surveillance, infrared motion tracking, drones, ICBMs, chemical/biological/nuclear weapons, military treaties with most of the developed world and bases around the world, a fleet of aircraft carriers and submarines with nuclear launch capability patrolling the world's oceans, etc. etc. etc. and you're citing "the need to defend against a tyrannical government" as one of the reasons to continue flooding the country with firearms.
It's true, in the 18th century where cannons and muskets were the greatest weapons the world's militaries had to threaten their people with we could be on equal or reasonably competitive footing with a tyrannical government. Today, that's only a masturbatory fantasy of the far-right who lack the self-esteem and feeling of power that a firearm artificially gives them and dream of using it against the government and anyone else who threatens their concept of what "America" means (see women who aren't submissive, minorities, gays, immigrants, etc. etc. etc.). So the argument is, what do we value more? The self-esteem of people who can't develop their own sense of self-worth and need to rely on the ability to wield objects that people actually do fear and respect (and that doesn't go beyond those objects to the wielders anymore than it would if a chimpanzee or robot were wielding them), or the lives of our children and other citizens who are their frequent victims? I know where I stand there.
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The state health department said late Monday in an emergency order that it would no longer record the category of “gender” on people’s birth certificates, replacing that category with a listing for “sex” that can be changed only in rare circumstances.
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I wasn't justifying anything. I'm simply saying no matter the restrictions that are put in, that some crazy loon some terrorist or terrorist group will find a way to get guns and shoot people, So, the argument will be "yes there's still shootings, but there's LESS shootings". I would like 0 shootings but that's not going to happen unfortunately.
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Dont worry guys. Guns are not the problem. Neither is racism. We still dont know the motive of the Buffalo shooting. You know Cruz is the voice of reason. Lets all just step back and do nothing about what happened and in a week we can all over react and hear the GOP tell us there is no issue and no problems and do this 20 more tomes by the end of the summer.
Game plan set right?
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Again, with the unironic 'no way to prevent this'. The last mass shooting in Norway was in 2011. The last mass shooting in Australia was in 1996. The last mass shooting in Switzerland was in 2001. The last mass shooting in New Zealand was in 2019, after which they embraced new gun control laws. Other countries have shooting events, where perhaps a few people are killed or injured, once every *few years*. In America, they are *daily events* or even twice daily. It's insane that we allow this to continue, and people using the same arguments and logic as you declare that since we can't stop all of them, since criminals will still get guns, then it's better to arm everyone instead. Well, we've tried doing nothing, or arming even more people, and the answer is that we're less safe, less free, and more afraid than ever.
So, yes, you're doing exactly what I said you're doing: justifying a status quo because the alternative means 'only criminals will have guns', and we all know what *that* means. We've heard it all before from every conservative in public life, and every conservative who comes crawling out on these boards after a mass shooting to declare that gun control won't solve the problem.
Meanwhile, since between now and Buffalo's shooting, an additional 12 people were killed and 69 others injured in mass shootings across the country, just in the last two weeks.
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/r.../mass-shooting
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/11010...ootings-so-far
Education Week has been tracking school shootings since 2018. According to its database, 119 such incidents have taken place since then.
A gunman killed at least 19 children and 2 adults at a Texas elementary school
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2 people were killed and several injured in a shooting at a Texas elementary school
There were 27 school shootings with injuries or deaths this year.
The organization tracks shootings where a firearm was discharged and where any person (other than the suspect) has a bullet wound resulting from the incident. Education Week also includes only incidents that happen on a K-12 school property or on a school bus and that occur when school is in session or during a school-sponsored event.
It doesn't track cases in which the only shots fired were from a school resource officer or police officer.
The U.S. has surpassed 200 mass shootings this year
The Gun Violence Archive, an independent data collection organization, has counted 212 mass shootings that have occurred so far this year, as of Tuesday. It defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people were shot or killed, excluding the shooter.
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