Still doesn’t negate that fact that in the overwhelming majority of all shootings some supposed “good guy with a gun” did not stop the shooter, and by the way, not that it matters, I qualified with five weapons including the Browning 50 caliber machine gun in the service
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Still doesn’t negate that fact that in the overwhelming majority of all shootings some supposed “good guy with a gun” did not stop the shooter, and by the way, not that it matters, I qualified with five weapons including the Browning 50 caliber machine gun in the service
One just happened in NYC Subway
We Have Normalized Mass Shootings in Black Communities.
hroughout this year, we've had heartbreaking mass shooting events that took the lives of too many innocent people. These now include yesterday's Independence Day mass shooting event in Highland Park, IL. Within hours, mainstream media was examining the shooter's personal life, and political social media on both sides were attempting to decipher his political motivations, as if there needed to be one to carry out such a heinous act.
These mass shooting events invigorate our political establishment to find legislative solutions. Whether you agree with their solutions or not isn't the point; the point is rather that these events motivate people with power and influence to advocate for solutions to prevent them from happening again, because they view events like these as being abnormal and refuse to normalize them.
But this instinct not to normalize gun violence isn't applied equally. The truth is we've already normalized it in certain sectors of our society.
The elephant in the room is that mass shootings happen all the time in cities across the country—they just happen in poor and low income Black neighborhoods. And all too many Americans are perfectly fine with this state of affairs, as long as they aren't personally experiencing it.
I've seen countless television interviews after mass shootings in suburbia and small-town America. The people interviewed, as well as the interviews, always seem to say the same thing: "This isn't supposed to happen here." They are saying this because they cherish what had been their high expectation of safety, even in a world where danger exists.
No one says that about the South Side of Chicago, or the streets of Philly. And too many of us have become comfortable with the tacit understanding that it is supposed to happen there, if only because it does so often.
My question to Americans is, should there be any place in America where shootings are supposed to happen? Have we so lowered our expectations for the lives of Black people that we have normalized Black death when it results from intra-racial conflict?
https://www.newsweek.com/we-have-no...lack-communities-its-got-stop-opinion-1721901
You and the left ignore these mass shootings but bitch about the nutcase white shooter
Whites shooting up people ...shooter is a nutcase..its tragic horrific etc etc
Blacks shooting up people ...has become a way of life
Jackson Miss is a small city but killings per capita ranks highest in the U.S. ...Blacks killing blacks in that city EVERYDAY and u never hear about the killings in Jackson ..NEVER
But have a white guy ONE DAY go to any same size city and shoot 8 people killing 7 with the mean looking AR....its all over the news...its terrible something needs to be done
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“birdie” got every one wrong, shocker, and if he learned to read he would know that the numbers provided to the FBI and CDC are voluntary, and at best, underreported
And we won’t go into the unconstitutional, “God given right” bullshit again, he has already done numerous ten counts on that one
We do ban certain vehicles, and have no idea or what banning “bill denominations” means
Nothing we aren’t already doing, for example, treat guns like we do vehicles, to include liability insurance, testing, renewing registrations, etc.
There are always going to be targets “less likely to have armed resistance,” you can not defend them all, nor can you predict the next shooter, the only variable we have to work with is that which makes it all possible, the gun
Stupid use of your fallacy glossary
“Uvalde was staged by the Democrats,” thanks Alex
Wrong
Don’t know if it is as high as two thirds, but close, another tragedy, but that still leaves close to fifteen thousand Americans as homicide victims, way and above any other developed nation in the world
No one is free if they have to live in fear of being shot while going to a movie, church, mall, parade, theater, spa, grocery store, spa, club, senior citizen center, school, concert, etc.
Nah, their doing it in gun free Red States, and I can’t recall any of the black city dwellers you are afraid of shooting up schools, churches, malls, theaters, etc.,
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Right, that was the problem in Texas and suburban Chicago
Chance of getting killed in car wreck on the way to a movie, church, mall, parade, theater, spa, grocery store, spa, club, senior citizen center, school, concert, etc. "ARE WAY WAY HIGHER" than getting killed by a mass shooter
Do u live IN FEAR of getting in your car???
to solve vehicle theft? hahaha -bullshit
We do ban certain vehicles