FFS!

[neadods]

I've just seen someone comment "Mass shootings are not a problem." You see, because the statistics are low that any given person in this large country would be caught in a mass shooting, it's a total waste of time to take any steps that might prevent yourself from being one of the victims the next time someone decides to take out a movie theater/school/workplace.

"Mass shootings are not a problem." For fuck's sake! How more inhuman can someone get after outright saying "I probably won't get shot, so fuck the people who care, and fuck you to the people who do."

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[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I am speechless with astonishment as such a callous attitude.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I've also seen someone saying that two classrooms full of dead kids wasn't a good enough reason to put any limits on guns. Made me want to emigrate.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Christ, I don't blame you!

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

People in Boston asked if I was worried about the Washington snipers, and I said no, because odds of my being targeted were vanishingly small, but that certainly didn't mean I didn't want the bastards put away.

Some people are irrational on the subject of gun adoration. Fight them, but try to ignore what they say or it will make you nuts.

More reason to fight: 500 kids in the US are killed with guns every year, up 60% in the past decade:
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/terrible-tally-500-children-dead-gunshots-every-year-7-500-8C11469222

So how many classrooms of dead kids would be enough, exactly...?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

So how many classrooms of dead kids would be enough, exactly...?

I'd say "the one with their own kids," but I've seen "tragedies happen but guns are a Constitutional right" quotes from people who've had family members shot dead.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

I will admit that I'm less concerned with the relatively-rare mass shootings than with the much more common "people shot and killed as a result of a domestic argument". But I'm certainly not above using the former as a lever to affect the latter.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Domestic violence may be more frequent, but that's the thing that seems remote to me. I don't know many people with guns, and fewer who are irresponsible with them. But I attend mass events like movies and go to work -- if it happens to me, it's going to happen there.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Mass shootings aren't the main problem in the US. The 'problem' is the drip, drip, drip of individual shootings, accidents and suicides that mean citizens are as likely to be shot as to end up in a car accident (in some States, more likely). But then, cars aren't actually designed to kill.