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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, there are not mass shooting every couple of days.

https://imgur.com/a/h6DvNwE

When we hear "mass shooting", we're all thinking about the Mother Jones and Violence Project numbers shown (hardly conservative sources). 6 for 2021. (And crime is way down since then.)

And if we go with the worst numbers on there, ~4,000, that's about a month worth of vehicular fatalities, not dead plus injured.

Everyone on here bitches about capitalism and how billionaires control our lives. Everyone is keenly aware that most media outlets have been combined into Sinclair and a few other owners. But when the media presents a steady drumbeat of death and destruction, no one seems to be able to put 2 and 2 together. They want the commoners disarmed.

I don't have answers, but all I know is that we had plenty of guns around when I was a kid, and yes, AR-15s as well, and this shit wasn't anything like today.

[–] meatwads_tooth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Awesome point, yea, the "commoners" need to be disarmed.

So you were around plenty of guns in your childhood? As a child, you knew what an AR-15 was?

Hmmm. It's almost like children growing up around guns, especially those exposed to rifles as you mentioned, became comfortable and used to them, know how to use them, and where to get them.

Cool graphic you shared in an attempt to justify gun violence. Ml

[–] lung@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago