From 2014, sadly.

It's a mystery 🤷‍♀️

It’s not just that. After 9/11, the war on terror era of the USA propagandized Americans to fear their own neighbors (leading to DHS/ICE), and then it glorified the special forces to a Roman Gladiator-esque mythology (creating a class outside of scrutiny).

violence is part and parcel of our national culture. We wouldn't have it any other way.

It’s not really struggling with it. The gun violence is scoring easy points as thoughts and prayers struggle to get up to speed coming off the bench.

Just gonna leave this story I saw this morning here

im so high i was like you dont want to take your gun in pool then it wont work

Odd, right?

And the people obsessed with guns and masculinity are also apparently terrified to walk the streets in DC when violent crime is at a 30-year low.. SAD!

Not sure why they are scared, didnt they say „if everyone had a gun, everyone would be safe“ no?

These assholes are afraid of their own shadow, they will NEVER feel safe anywhere.

Nor should they

My unfortunately evergreen op-ed: www.jacksonville.com/story/opinio...

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They don't struggle with gun violence, they're great at it.

“swimming in semi-automatics” sounds like the latest trend in athletiware

My literal mind couldn't get past this!

And isn't the whole point of all those guns to resist the rise of tyranny? Any time now would be great 👍

Meh, fewer Americans in the world is a good thing any way it happens.

how dare democrats go shooting accusations at guns

Democrats are also gun owners.

Thank God

why? they aren’t using them for the thing the second amendment says they are for. all guns are actually for in the US is killing children and committing suicide. Opposing or deposing a tyrannical government is not on the list.

Hardly struggling. They seem to be rather good at it.

They don’t struggle with it … they take the easy way out … they simply ignore it. Now you are the odd man out if you question it.

Go figure.

False. It's not baffling. It's a culture obsessed with femininity and feelings that cause these shootings. Our country is in utter chaos since we've allowed women and children to run the country. Girl-math politics over the last thirty years has weakened and confused this once great nation.

Hoping this is sarcasm

it's not - he's an Incel and a Trump supporter. And he has a problem with women so I reported him.

You mean psudo-machismo in a society that would choose an impotent, incontinent, obese man to be president and their ideal of manhood.

Fraudulent administration in a nutshell

haven’t you heard? we’re taking the wrong meds!!! that’s the problem (according to RFK’s brainworm)

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You're on your own, don't back down, don't take any shit from anyone, oh and by the way here's a huge pile of guns.

The statistic that i can't get my head around - roughly 50%(it varies slightly from year to year) of gun deaths are self inflicted.

Pointing a gun at your head and pulling the trigger is easier and has a higher success rate than swilling down 300 Tylenol with a bottle whisky or sealing up your garage with the engine running

Not really when you add the word “performative” in front of machismo.

Hold up. "Performative machismo" is what I believe you meant to say.

The machismo is all about the violence

tall scared boys abound

and individualism

That's only about a third of our culture here in America

You know what else is baffling in a country swimming with semi-automatics…

Meanwhile, ref their one argument...

Because they're a Russian op and have been for years. They exist to get white bigots het up to fight their Rahowa.

One postcolonial perspective is that the weapon of choice for Western terrorists & antiterrorists should be the machete. That is what some elements of the Uyghur community periodically use to try to get their point across—see [re: more than just this immediate issue]: m.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ew...

Truly, tracks with what I seeing online too. Everything authorities say is 'confusing' actually makes sense when looking at his age (23) and what USA (TV, movies, etc) has exposed him to his entire life. These shooters are a Made in USA product.

Easy access to guns.

Leading cause of death in children. The rot has truly set in.

But they’re working hard to bring back all the other causes of deaths in children so guns will no longer be number one!

yep, at the rate worm-ate-brain jr is lying & grifting, he'll have HHS mandating that all children smoke in airports to "cure" their autism by next week

has been for years

Truly humiliating for them, when it turned out none of the "machismo" was real, and they're a bunch of weak, hypocritical cowards who will let a tyrannical government do anything and defend guns when mass shootings happen, but won't use those guns to stop the tyranny, like the Second Amendment says🤦‍♀️

Once upon a time I would hear about a school shooting and would immediately turn on the news and listen to endless commentary. One side would demand something be done immediately about gun violence while the other side would vigorously defend it. Yesterday I didn’t turn the news on once. No point.

me either.Uvalde and Sandy Hook was the end. They weren't willing to make any changes when first and second graders got blown into pieces, then nothing's gonna happen. only thing that would make it change is to show photos, but too horrific..actually I'm not even sure that would change their minds

It must be the women.

It’s an absolute mystery.

A cancer metastasising all over the world. www.smh.com.au/national/vic...

There’s no struggle. Conservatives have won. The whole country has been acculturated into accepting random gun violence outrages as if they were weather events.

No, it really hasnt. Most people here are horrified by it and horrified our government wont do anything but make it worse.

Guns don't kill people, people with terrifyingly easy access to guns due to a powerful lobbying from the NRA and weak federal regulations kill people.

Guns actually don't kill people. Bullets do.

You forgot "...and brainwashed to think that journalists, scientists, doctors, civil servants, and immigrants are evil criminals and enemies of America." They've deliberately fomented stochastic terrorism, and whaddya know? It worked.

It's been like this since slavery. Defending your honor with violence was only done by white men because it wasn't allowed by anyone else. No one else was even legally allowed to defend themselves from attack.

It was a way for white men to assert their "manliness" and remains a big part of the culture to this day.

Toxic masculinity. Insecure males having to prove to themselves that their men.

Toxic manhood?

Nothing like oversimplifying a complex problem by pointing at the most convenient scapegoat. It's the American Way.

So complex that a bunch of other countries have already figured it out 🤷‍♂️

Its very simple. Too many guns equals too many gun deaths.

No, too many people fucked in the head thinking a great way to spend a morning is by killing people equals too many gun deaths. Certainly doesn't help with any other versions of murders either.

And they couldnt do anything about it without the guns. Its the guns.

Au contraire. I think the guns are just straight out of laziness and a desire for infamy. A snowplow or cement truck would increase the death total a good threefold. Not to mention things such as explosives or fires. Then you're looking at high double digits, minimum.

It’s the guns, stupid.

And then after all that, to blame transgenderism for the violence

Yet on the day of the latest shooting CNN elected to air a segment with a child psychologist to help parents spot signs of whether their school-aged children are or are not traumatized by witnessing their classmates being slaughtered. This is what we've come to. Coping lessons.

For fuck's sake. The kids are traumatized going to school everyday just because its a possibility. Continual stress like tgat, even if they never see violence, will still traumatize them.

We really need the Chinese to run things, that's been clear for some time.

Glorified patriotic violence has only trended the one direction for millennia.

We should definitely conduct a study on this connection.

Yes, and gun-makers are immune from suit under federal law.

Yes, because only guns kill people, not the gun manufacturers who sell them weapons of mas destruction. (Misspelling is intentional, relax.)

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Not enough guns, clearly. Perhaps tariffs on non-ownership could help?

That comes under "don't give Trump ideas" at this point.

Its sort of like saying that drowning has nothing to do with water.

Violence and disrespect for females is all around boys growing up. Video Games, Action Movies, Porn .....

They need their guns just in case there's a tyrannical evil government that they need to overthrow!! all the Patriots will come from their hunting stands & turn on their fellow Americans, because of a girdle wearing manchild NEVERMIND that the tyrannical govt is here already stealing their money.

And also a culture that preaches hate (while pretending to be Christian)

Nothing pretend about it! Christianity is a sick rape cult, worshipping a God stolen from another religion not in spite of, but for raping an under-age girl. It's hateful to its core.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.[...] Love thy neighbor as yourself." Sounds like Woke propaganda to me.

Yes that's what Christians these days say. Oh and they are real Christians. This took over American Christianity back in the 90s. Everyone else let them take over, so I dont want to hear how other Christians are better or something. They are not.

One of the great mysteries of life. There's just no way to understand it.

Don’t worry, RFK Jr is investigating the anti depressants to stop these massacres happening.

Phew! 🙄

We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas.

Think it’s individualism. Same reason they went so insane during Covid. They can’t conceive of prioritising the needs of the many over the few

“They can’t conceive of prioritising the needs of the many over the few” It’s not even the needs of a few! It’s the desires of a few! Fewer guns & more covid protections would in fact benefit them, too. But they just don’t want to live that way.

We have empirical evidence that this is true! There were virtually no mass shootings when the assault weapons ban was in place.

Or they plain dumb.

More guns equals more gun deaths. Its really that simple.

Guns don’t appear in people’s houses for no reason

They appear there because they are available to buy. If they werent available to buy, there would be far fewer in people's houses.

Other countries sell guns

Not nearly to the extent we do. More guns than people in the USA.

So it seems like just selling guns isn’t the issue

Yes, it is. when there are more guns than people, that is an issue with guns being too easy to buy. Are you actually stupid or a troll?

Cool, you’ve figured out half of the supply: demand.

The same people that want to arm teachers to “solve” school shootings. These are very sick people.

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I'll bet Utzi or Lucy on any early hominin could have figured this out

HEART DISEASE kills over 600,000 Americans annually. That’s about 10x the annual gun fatalities So why not ban McDonald’s?

Thank you for your service derek

What does machismo have to do with the shooting? Seems like a thought-terminating cliche

Just check out youtube gun content

Most shooters are male.

I was reading the 'list of shootings in houses of worship' wikipedia article earlier and it looks like the majority or a good number of perpetrators in the last couple years are actually female.

Rubbish. According to the Rockefeller institute 3.8% of mass shooters are female.

you can read the article for yourself en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

That incomplete list is your evidence that there are more female shooters?!!!

idk, this isn't my field of study, but it seems hand-wavy to say machismo is the problem with gun violence when the perpetrator of the subject of discussion identifies as female, and the circumstances suggest a higher incidence of female perps, this is a really dumb thing to argue imo

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/resea...

lemme just drop a link of a link to a cnn article of an fbi study conducted between 2000 and 2013, uh ok

You’re in denial that over 90% of shooters are male in the US.

That's one crazy take I never thought of haha

How could it possibly be predicted?! 😏

Simply deploy our well trained militia.

Interesting how they’re only interested when a trans does it. Interesting? I meant boringly predictable