It’s America. They trust baaically anybody with basically any gun.
The Ulvade shooter was a teenager, with a history of sending death and rape threats, who earned the nickname “school shooter” after abusing a dead cat.
He bought two semi-automatic rifles from a company that markets to young, internet connected edgelords, posted pictures of them to social media, then used them to mutilate a room full of children beyond recognition.
The pro-gun crowd rushed to blame the police but the reality is that police and hypothetical “good guns” can only react to shootings, meaning its always going to be too late for someone.
Which is why braver police at Sandy Hook were too late to save anyone, despite being on the scene and breaching within minutes.
It’s a pattern repeated over and over again. Look up the history of a mass shooter 3 months after their act, when their history is known, and its usually the same story; a parade of red flags, often far-right and radicalised online and deeply damaged and not shy about it.
People capable of these acts are not just normal people (and legal gun owners) who wake up broken one day and decide to see if murdering children and minorities fixes it. People could already tell they were dangerous.
But if you ask those pro-gun cultists what they’d have changed, it’s never the guns.
They’re genuinely more upset by the idea of waiting 6 months for a gun – something routine in the rest of the world – than they are by children dying terrified and screaming on their classroom floor.
After blaming video games and rap music didn’t work, they’ve finally opted for “mental health” and while it sounds reasonable on the surface, it’s no less bullshit.
It’s not at all reasonable to insist that America fixes the mental health problems of every man, woman and child in America, for free, no matter how deeply violent, curing them to a degree far beyond the most cutting edge medical treatments available, with no relapses ever, in less time and with less effort to the patient than buying a gun and doing a murder suicide.
All so it’s safer to indiscrimately sell the public guns.
I hope Lemmy communities don’t give give them space. They’re propaganda spreading, self-absorbed scum.
(P.S: Sorry for hitting you with this rant but I know I’m going to have to copy and paste bits of it 100 times on Lenmy, so I may as well get it all out now)
Those same people also tend to oppose using public money to pay for mental health treatment, or really any programs to improve the lives of people with mental health issues or other problems that can lead to breakdowns. Best they can think of is prison, which is very expensive for the government, but that’s always fine for some reason.
There’s people who actually believe that literally everyone should have a gun at all times. I expect to see actual deification of guns by the end of the decade.
Humans are so fucking stupid, in general. We deserve to be replaced by something better. It won’t be long. The planet appears to be winding up for another cycle & honestly I can’t fucking wait.
I’ve seen a surprising number of people on Lemmy with this depressing attitude. Not all humans deserve to die just because those in power don’t give a shit about the environment. And unfortunately, we’re not the only ones that will end up dying off. We’ll be taking a massive chunk of the planet with us.
If her excuse was “i didnt know i parked my car on the tracks”, she needs to have her drivers license confiscated. Someone with such little awareness of their surroundings has no business operating heavy machinery (car), let alone the responsibilities of her job.
She would not have even have had to leave the car. The railroad crossing signs are very obviously visible. And unless she had the most amazing shocks ever, she probably felt the very bumpy tracks when she went over them.
On the upside, free boiled fish that takes no effort!
Maybe all those Republicans that recently moved to Florida because it is cheap will realize climate change is an issue when their home owner’s insurance ends, they are hit by frequent large hurricanes, are racked with flooding, and they get a wet bulb event or two every year that kills thousands of seniors.
Holy shit. She had it rough. Sent to Magdalene laundries as a teen by her father who thought they were there to help. Instead it was a place of severe abuse. Spoke out about the church’s shit apology for the abuse and slave labor and was canceled because of it. She was booed off stage afterward which led Kris Kristofferson to try to comfort her after by telling her to not let the bastards get her down. Her career should have been bright but instead it never quite got back on track. And her son committed suicide last year.
The incident was linked to upgrade work that was underway in the Johnson Space Center’s building.
Backup systems usually fail over during regular outages. But during work, they might have had some stuff disconnected for access or safety. Or some worked accidentally tripped something that caused a failure in a weird way. Or it was a brownout that wasn’t enough to trip the failover.
You know what would really help? Not showing a nice happy vacation beach image with that headline. How about some dead fish, people sweating while doing manual laboue or bleached corals? For fucks sake.
And much of the US Southeast in general. And probably the Northeast as well. But many people in the US can evacuate inland. Countries around the Caribbean Sea… not so much
Low-income households in the US are also disproportionately affected; cause it’s hard to evacuate your family without a car, or to rebuild your life after it’s been hurricaned away.
Just a reminder that warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic = hurricane fuel. We are lucky El Niño is causing some wind shear in the upper atmosphere to break up the storms… so far. I recommend looking it up if you’re interested. Hurricane season has the potential to be devastating this year if the El Niño cycle weakens.
There is a reason republicans are speed running Gilead over there. They need the short term “clout” to get cushy positions out of state before it is completely wiped out.
We can see something similar in texas but people generally understand that texas is a fundamentally broken state. Whereas florida has “woke Disney” keeping them afloat and is a tourism hub that people will visit in spite of being terrified as to what happens if they need health care or want to read a book on their trip.
There is multiple tipping points, as counterintuitive as that sounds. Just means there are certain things that cannot be repaired once they are destroyed.
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