I initially clicked the link to see if the suspect used a “bump” stock, or AR-15, only to slowly realize, Florence KY is right outside of Covington, just south of Cincinnati, and I have a bunch of family there.
Gun rights and regulations, the arguments and drama and bullshit, all pale in comparison to the loss of a loved one.
Guns don’t only do one thing. Sure, they kill people. But they also destroy families. They make kids grow up without fathers, make parents bury their children.
I hope my loved ones are safe. I wish I didn’t have to worry about my family and I being shot for nothing everyday.
I was at the UCSB shooting in 2014. I remember the surreal sound of gunshots. They sounded like nothing I would expect. So many lives and families were destroyed that day. The years later, a bar in my community was shot up, destroying even more lives.
I’m sad how often these occurrences are and that we’ve gone blind to them.
Any gun nut feel like arguing for insanity that are US gun laws?
All you need to do is ignore science and reality and every other country outsider of the US and be convinced that undiagnosed schizophrenics being able to buy a shedload of semi-automatic weapons is necessary for democracy.
All I need to do is remind you that there’s not a single piece of study that supports any of the arguments of the gun nutters.
(Also, just because it seems to matter to these nuts, I started shooting at 12 and have handled everything from old officer’s pistols to shotguns to modern assault rifles, machine guns, grenades, mines, and even AA guns. Shooting is fun, yeah, but having fun isn’t more important than making sure children don’t have to live under the constant threat of their fellow pupils pulling out a semi-auto with a bump-stock.)
Edit after three days: yeah, not a Single scientific study of any sort from the gun nuts, but the usual “teenagers aren’t kids and we don’t actually have any issues and I’m not reading some study, muh rights, just a gang problem” etc etc etc etc
The shooter was a convicted felon. What law do you suppose would’ve prevented this?
One that would have prevented him from getting his hands on a firearm.
If he’s a felon, he shouldn’t have been able to possess a gun. Did someone sell him a gun? Did someone let him borrow their gun? Did he steal it from someone who didn’t store it securely in a gun safe?
Write the laws so that the person responsible for the felon having a gun can be convicted of murder for the people killed with that gun. Make the liability for owning and selling guns so strict that you would have to be an idiot not to take every precaution to protect yourself from fault.
Because this won’t stop unless something changes, and we can’t just sit on our hands and pretend it was nobody’s fault every time it happens. If we’re going to make laws forbidding felons from owning guns, we better start treating anyone who enables felon to have a gun as accomplices in any crimes committed with the gun, without exception. No protections for guns stores or private sellers, just actual enforcement of laws prohibiting felons from possessing firearms.
And here lies the problem. There are a ton of gun laws on the books already, but the enforcement of them is the problem. Adding more laws isn’t going to change that.
I love it when people are like “the current set of laws is difficult to enforce, but adjusting the language of the law to make it more enforceable is NOT the answer”, and then they just shrug it off like there’s no solution.
Better laws do solve the issue. As I said, this man got his gun from somebody, and that somebody isn’t suspect numero uno right now, so we need laws to change that.
If the law isn’t serving us, the law ought to be changed.
Unless you have an alternative plan to offer, you’re really just saying “do nothing”, which you are welcome to do, but personally I would like to see less violence in the world.
Dude, the problem is that cops do not enforce gun laws against their fellow fascists. If you want better enforcement, the path is to fire ALL the cops, prosecute them, change the requirements for how they get hired, empower oversight boards, demilitarize their armories, and completely replace every single one.
Because until you reform the police, they don’t care how many laws you pass.
Oh wow man, great idea. Too many mass shootings? Just fire all the cops. Just like that, no more mass shootings.
ACAB, but if your first step in preventing mass shootings is police reform, you need to step the fuck out of the way and let the people actually interested in addressing the gun problem figure this out.
I’m not telling you the first step for preventing mass shootings. I’m saying if you want laws enforced against fascists, you’d be a fool to let fascists enforce the laws you write against them.
Maybe one that removes all guns entirely. Other than that, not much.
If you really want to understand their perspective, consider an analogous argument involving some other fundamental human right, ideally one that you strongly support.
An easy one is free speech. Many countries without this right believe it is dangerous and stupid, using a litany of rational assertions and examples to justify themselves.
Consider all of the harm caused by people spreading lies and propaganda. The right to free speech ensures the most evil ideas and people can utilize our most powerful social constructs to attack the very foundations that a stable society depends on. etc…
Every right can be abused, and likewise an argument can be formulated against them based on their potential for abuse. Those that support some right typically believe the benefits outweigh the costs.
Hope this helps.
Do you honestly think everyone having access to a firearm is a “fundamental human right”?
Because… it very much isn’t.
For more about those, you can read on
https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/human-rights
And here, in a listed format, and you’ll very much notice the absence of being armed.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/universal-declaration-of-human-rights/
Let’s take article 3 as an example of a fundamental human right.
Everyone has the right to life (and to live in freedom and safety).
Do you think the US would manage to better protect that right if they accepted the actual science on the issue, rhe one which proves people would be safer and there’d be less gun violence if reasonable regulation was instilled on a national level?
Hope this helps, because people like you need to be helped so we can help ensure better fundamental human rights in the US.
I’m not trying to argue with you.
It seemed that you were trying to make sense of the gun nut mindset. Gun nuts do indeed think firearm ownership is a fundamental human right, so considering it as such is necessary to understand their perspective.
No no, I’m not trying understand anything here. I’m displaying how delusional gun nuts are, for example by thinking unlimited access to firearms is a “human right”? I mean I know the education in the US is bad, but that’s just… next level bad.
Yes I to can make up bullshit…
You’re being emotional, and that’s how shit laws get created. Your logic follows the same crap that anti-abortion groups use, it’s all based on emotions.
And you having “shot guns” doesn’t make you an expert on guns.
More kids die from drowning than from being killed at school by a massive order of magnitude. Why aren’t we closing pools and hot tubs? Or you don’t want to because them dying isn’t really the issue to you. It’s what was used to have them die isn’t it?
https://www.childrenssafetynetwork.org/infographics/facts-childhood-drowning
What a stupid comparison. Guns have one purpose - destruction. You can talk about all the things you can do with guns, but their intended purpose and design is to destroy. The better they destroy shit, the more valuable they are. They’re nothing without that. Pools and hot tubs are not that, and provide value to families and communities in other ways. Also, it’s water. Literally water. And many areas have building codes surrounding pools and their safety. Mainly fences and safety covers. Homeowners insurance is also more expensive when you own a pool. Does that stop every child from drowning? No. Do we know how many times a child was saved because a pool was legally required to have a fence or safety cover? Also no. Also, there is no one running around with pools or hot tubs in their pockets drowning children en masse.
What a stupid comparison. Guns have one purpose - destruction. You can talk about all the things you can do with guns, but their intended purpose and design is to destroy. The better they destroy shit, the more valuable they are. They’re nothing without that.
Yep, no argument there, but that wasn’t my point.
Pools and hot tubs are not that, and provide value to families and communities in other ways. Also, it’s water. Literally water. And many areas have building codes surrounding pools and their safety. Mainly fences and safety covers. Homeowners insurance is also more expensive when you own a pool.
You do know how many laws there are on the books for firearms right? It’s over 20k laws in state and federal gov.
Does that stop every child from drowning? No. Do we know how many times a child was saved because a pool was legally required to have a fence or safety cover? Also no.
What’s the point of this? You don’t know how many kids on average are stopped by a safer either.
Also, there is no one running around with pools or hot tubs in their pockets drowning children en masse.
Again, so it doesn’t matter that 950 kids a year on average drown, because that’s just the deaths you’re willing to take to have access to a body of water right?
None of that was to say it doesn’t matter, it’s to say it’s a stupid comparison. We can work on drownings and work on gun deaths at the same time. They’re two completely different problems. If I said too many people died in car accidents, you wouldn’t say “well what about cigarettes!? Don’t care about lung cancer then huh?” Yes. They both problems. Such different problems it’s stupid to compare them. Pool safety also isn’t a divisive political issue that’s winds up in the news because people would mostly agree on common sense pool safety. There’s no group of fenceless pool enthusiasts protesting for their right to own a pool that a child could easily drown in. We would consider those people idiots.
He’s literally using whataboutism.
It’s a garbage rhetoric “tactic” and you should not engage in it with him.
Going “b-b-but bathtubs” isn’t him showing any science on gun regulation, it’s pathetic whataboutism, all people like him are capable of.
And even with cars, a mode of transport that can be fatal if there’s accident (but the main use of which is transportation), there already is reasonable regulation, because ONE NEEDS A LICENCE TO DRIVE, and there are criteria you need to meet to be allowed a licence.
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Says the euro who keeps saying “what about Europe, see gun control works”…lol you’ve got no idea how the world works kid. Stick to your side of the pond and let me deal with my “3rd world shithole”
It’s not “what about Europe”, it’s “here’s a study from a very credible university looking at 130 different studies from all around the world, oh and here’s another from another credible university, looking at all the objective information we have on the issue”
I’m not making an argument. The studies are.
https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/insights-blog/acting-data/gun-violence-united-states-outlier
https://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/140.full.pdf+html
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/
Yeah no, I care about children being massacred, and willfully ignorant people like you are the thing that’s making life less safe for children in your country. Just like I care about the genocide in Palestine and other threats to basic human rights, I care about the children in your country, and honestly, it’s really weird that you’ve been brainwashed so badly that you don’t, since caring for children is a very primordial instinct.
Cry all you want big boy, the science is on the side of us non-brainwashed, rational people who understand the need for actual gun regulation in a civilised country.
Too bad the US hardly qualifies to that group any more. Third world level literacy rates, so many homeless that human shit is an actual issue in supposedly civilised cities, and firearms as the leading cause of death for children.
There’s a literal mountai in the of evidence showing that all you need to do to start facing this problem is reasonable nation-wide gun regulation. Something everyone knows works and something that you won’t find science against, because gun regulation being the answer is as clear to most people as is the fact that the Earth is round, not Flat.
But you will find Flat Earther crazies who won’t believe in the science even when their own science proves that they are indeed wrong.
You’re emotional. You get so angry when you’re reminded that you go against science because you don’t have the balls to actually use your own brain.
https://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/140.full.pdf+html
And you having “shot guns” doesn’t make you an expert on guns
Oh yeah no, it doesn’t bear any rationale to this argument. It’s just there because gun nuts always default to the “you’re just afraid of my pew-pew sticks, that’s why you support gun regulation”. Nah. I love guns, they’re fun. But you know what I care more about than loud bangs? That children don’t have to live in fear of some incel fucktards charging into their school with a pimped out AR15 with a bumpstock.
There’s literally not a single peer reviewed study that concludes that less gun control is better, for anything.
But I’m sure the lack of science won’t stop you, just like it doesn’t stop Flat Earthers.
You’re really just here to prove my point about the willfull ignorance of nuts like you. So… thanks, I guess?
“big boy”
I agree guns in America must change, but you don’t do yourself a service by using schoolyard name-calling. Especially when he called you emotional lol
That’s what people have to do when they transparently have no actual knowledge of the regulatory landscape they’re trying to wade into lol. The same kind of idiot who actually believes it when some politician tells that that a complicated problem has an easy solution.
Cry all you want big boy, the science is on the side of us non-brainwashed, rational people who understand the need for actual gun regulation in a civilised country.
I’m not the one crying, the 2nd isn’t going anywhere, and neither are my firearms. More and more people on the left are arming themselves, and the gun control types are becoming a smaller and smaller group. The support you think you have is basically on echo chambers like reddit and here.
Too bad the US hardly qualifies to that group any more. Third world level literacy rates, so many homeless that human shit is an actual issue in supposedly civilised cities, and firearms as the leading cause of death for children. https://www.forbes.com/sites/darreonnadavis/2023/10/05/firearms-now-no-1-cause-of-death-for-us-children---while-drug-poisoning-enters-top-5/
First, I’m all for social programs, ending the war on drugs, mental health, single payer healthcare and increasing our funding to education.
Second, firearms is not the leading cause of death for children. It was during covid because of how many people weren’t driving and how depressed people got from being stuck inside and not being able to socialize.
There’s a literal mountai in the of evidence showing that all you need to do to start facing this problem is reasonable nation-wide gun regulation. Something everyone knows works and something that you won’t find science against, because gun regulation being the answer is as clear to most people as is the fact that the Earth is round, not Flat.
Tell that to mexico or Brazil, you also forget that all the places you love to claim have lower gun violence are places with social support for their citizens.
But you will find Flat Earther crazies who won’t believe in the science even when their own science proves that they are indeed wrong.
Not even in the same ballpark.
You’re emotional. You get so angry when you’re reminded that you go against science because you don’t have the balls to actually use your own brain.
Lol yea… I’m the angry one here.
https://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/140.full.pdf+html
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Oh yeah no, it doesn’t bear any rationale to this argument. It’s just there because gun nuts always default to the “you’re just afraid of my pew-pew sticks, that’s why you support gun regulation”. Nah. I love guns, they’re fun. But you know what I care more about than loud bangs? That children don’t have to live in fear of some incel fucktards charging into their school with a pimped out AR15 with a bumpstock.
The problem here is, you don’t seem to care that kids die, just how they die. Most murders happen with handguns. In fact, murders with ar15s are so rare they’re just included into all rifle deaths, because they’re statistically pointless.
There’s literally not a single peer reviewed study that concludes that less gun control is better, for anything.
That’s not how the second amendment works, it’s not there to reduce our violence. It’s there to stop a tyrannical gov…one of which seems to be coming more and more everyday. Do you just ignore the shit that’s coming out of trump and his ilks mouth?
But I’m sure the lack of science won’t stop you, just like it doesn’t stop Flat Earthers.
Statistics are what I look at. Which is why you thinking another bumpstock or AWB would do anything is hilarious.
You’re really just here to prove my point about the willfull ignorance of nuts like you. So… thanks, I guess?
Yes I’m the nut.
People like them reek of the sheltered-liberal-20-year-old mindset of “the system is almost perfect, is we just make a couple of tweaks here and there it’ll be fine.” As if firearm restrictions alone will address socioeconomic ossification, the lack of meaningful state protection of vulnerable populations, deep resentment of minorities in homogenous, conservative areas, etc. Whining about how dumb people who hate guns less than they do are lets them get away with not doing the difficult work of addressing deep-rooted structural injustices. Fucking weak.
Works literally everywhere where reasonable gun regulation has been implemented on a national level.
https://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/140.full.pdf+html
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/
Like I said, unfortunately for you, we rational people have all the science backing us up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You follow narrative, we follow science.
No, no it doesn’t. Everywhere that has gun control also has social safety nets… everywhere they have gun control and no safety nets, its bad. Brazil and Mexico… please explain those two countries which have very high firearm homicides but the gun laws there basically ban civilians from owning firearms.
No, no it doesn’t.
Yes, it does.
Refusing to believe science, asserting your bullshit as more credible than Harvard and Oxford.
Always the same.
It’s crazy that in America apparently you need to be a gun expert to know if you like to get shot on the streets or have your children get shot in a school. Ah ah aaaah, he said clip instead of magazine, he don’t even know so his argument is invalid. You get murdered by a bullet from a magazine, not a clip. Gun nuts win again.
It’s crazy that you should know a topic and be informed on it to discuss it? Really? You’re literally talking like the anti-abortion/anti-contraception dicks who wave their bibles around. So yes, it’s good to be informed on a topic.
What a silly thought.
Mississippi has three times more gun deaths per capita than Ukraine during an active war. Your argument is 100% invalid.
No…no it does not…how are you even able to say that as a fact lol. Ukraine has lost around 31k soldiers since the invasion. Mississippi does not have 15k+ gun deaths a year.
Military losses are not part of the civilian gun deaths. Ukraine lost only 10k civilians over two years. That’s 133 deaths per 1m. Mississippi is more dangerous than an active war zone, that’s a fact.
And that’s not even the only comparison.
US gun violence rate higher than nearly all Sub-Saharan countries, which are among the world’s poorest.
When casualties of military conflicts are factored out, the US gun violence rate is higher than even countries in conflict ridden regions like the Mid-East
Saying Ukraine during an active war which already had lower civilian gun deaths than the usa and then saying “no that’s not what I meant” is hilarious. It’s like if Germany or Poland were invaded and you said the same thing. You’re post is pointless.
Lol wut? Once again - Ukraine during an active war IS safer than the US.
Ukraine pre-war already had a lower firearm homicide rate than the US…on top of that, they armed a huge portion of their population when they were invaded…so your point is even worse since they gave out literal assault rifles to civilians and their firearm homicide rate was still lower… sounds like its not the guns.
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Well, at least this article is two days old. I thought it was a new shooting. Silver linings people!
3am…gang or drug violence…not a mass shooting.
A mass shooting, as the public understands, is one that is a random act of violence in a public place.
Not a drug den at 3am.
mass shooting, as defined by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an event in which one or more individuals are “actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. Implicit in this definition is the shooter’s use of a firearm.” The FBI has not set a minimum number of casualties to qualify an event as a mass shooting, but U.S. statute (the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012) defines a “mass killing” as “3 or more killings in a single incident.” For the purposes of this article, both sets of criteria will be applied to the term mass shooting, with the distinction that the shooter or shooters are not included in any fatality statistics.
Police responded to a call just before 3am on Saturday morning for an active shooting situation at a home in Florence, Kentucky.
You’re right it seems. They should’ve said “mass killing”
Still weird that we talk about semantics though.
Semantics matter greatly. The general public hears mass shooting and thinks, random act of violence. They don’t hear “3am crack house was shot up by rival gang”.
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Unless you have proof and a source, you’re literally telling me to not make something up… while making something up.
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Since you’re actually legit, that sucks man.
Also dude was a pedophile felon? The fuck was he out of jail for?
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Yea but how the fuck did that let him out? That link, his fucking rap sheet is a mile long. Like WTF is with our justice system.
