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It's America. They trust baaically anybody with basically any gun.
The Ulvade shooter was a teenager, with a history of sending death and rape threats, who earned the nickname "school shooter" after abusing a dead cat.
He bought two semi-automatic rifles from a company that markets to young, internet connected edgelords, posted pictures of them to social media, then used them to mutilate a room full of children beyond recognition.
The pro-gun crowd rushed to blame the police but the reality is that police and hypothetical "good guns" can only react to shootings, meaning its always going to be too late for someone.
Which is why braver police at Sandy Hook were too late to save anyone, despite being on the scene and breaching within minutes.
It's a pattern repeated over and over again. Look up the history of a mass shooter 3 months after their act, when their history is known, and its usually the same story; a parade of red flags, often far-right and radicalised online and deeply damaged and not shy about it.
People capable of these acts are not just normal people (and legal gun owners) who wake up broken one day and decide to see if murdering children and minorities fixes it. People could already tell they were dangerous.
But if you ask those pro-gun cultists what they'd have changed, it's never the guns.
They're genuinely more upset by the idea of waiting 6 months for a gun -- something routine in the rest of the world -- than they are by children dying terrified and screaming on their classroom floor.
After blaming video games and rap music didn't work, they've finally opted for "mental health" and while it sounds reasonable on the surface, it's no less bullshit.
It's not at all reasonable to insist that America fixes the mental health problems of every man, woman and child in America, for free, no matter how deeply violent, curing them to a degree far beyond the most cutting edge medical treatments available, with no relapses ever, in less time and with less effort to the patient than buying a gun and doing a murder suicide.
All so it's safer to indiscrimately sell the public guns.
I hope Lemmy communities don't give give them space. They're propaganda spreading, self-absorbed scum.
(P.S: Sorry for hitting you with this rant but I know I'm going to have to copy and paste bits of it 100 times on Lenmy, so I may as well get it all out now)
Those same people also tend to oppose using public money to pay for mental health treatment, or really any programs to improve the lives of people with mental health issues or other problems that can lead to breakdowns. Best they can think of is prison, which is very expensive for the government, but that’s always fine for some reason.
There's people who actually believe that literally everyone should have a gun at all times. I expect to see actual deification of guns by the end of the decade.
Don’t be sorry. Your frustration is 100% reasonable.
That's a lot of words to just suggest a change that wouldn't even of prevented the tragedy your making an example of.
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