Quote (Santara @ Mar 28 2023 01:03am)

Shhh



Mass shootings are not uniquely American. Per capita, there are a few countries that are worse, which is astonishing considering the firearms ownership rate here. We'd be a lot better if we healed our culture to acceptance of normal ownership and responsibility.

Quote (Santara @ 28 Mar 2023 02:13)

Fuck off.

Quote (fender @ Mar 27 2023 07:17pm)

make me. oh right, you can't. might as well stop trying to.

Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Mar 27 2023 07:16pm)

That's only true if you massage the statistics.

"Typical (Median) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015):
United States — 0.058
Albania — 0
Austria — 0
Belgium — 0
Czech Republic — 0
Finland — 0
France — 0
Germany — 0
Italy — 0
Macedonia — 0
Netherlands — 0
Norway — 0
Russia — 0
Serbia — 0
Slovakia — 0
Switzerland — 0
United Kingdom — 0
Using the median analysis, the United States is the only country examined that shows a propensity for mass shootings. The data itself supports this interpretation, as the United States endured mass shooting events all seven years, but the other countries all experienced mass shootings during only one or two years. Thus, in a typical year, most countries experience zero mass shooting deaths, while the US experiences at least a few."

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shootings-by-country

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 27 2023 08:59pm)

Pretty sure when Voltaire prayed 'lord, make my enemies ridiculous', he wasn't expecting god to take it this far

Quote (Santara @ 28 Mar 2023 02:18)

Fuck off.

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 27 2023 07:47pm)

not to mention they're usually more practical weapons for such shootings, in tight corridors and at close range to people who could grab your weapon.
I've always figured that the fact so many would-be terrorists are just uninspired peabrains who blindly copy the narrative they've been exposed to, is what has saved us from the far worse potential of people actually utilizing bombs, fire, trucks and poison. Which were more common and more relatively lethal and fell out of vogue in the past few decades and now we get terror attackers who kill 6 people before getting gunned down. Even the most elaborate preparation by a well funded and competent attacker with all the opportunity and no mistakes, as we saw in Las Vegas, still killed less people than some muslim guy LARPing crazy taxi in france. Lord help us if they ever figure out what you can do with wire cutters, a bike lock and a drum of gasoline.

pretty sure this trans terrorist could have killed more people by just tilting his steering wheel while driving to the target

Quote (Santara @ Mar 28 2023 01:20am)

Quote (Meanwhile @ Mar 27 2023 04:29pm)

Wow a woman ? this is incredibly rare.

Usually it's young white boys with a maga cap