If only there was something we could do...

[leroy jenkins]

.weaponizing the 2A into divisive identity partisan politics

Yea thats something the liberal politicians do.

Gavin Newsome pushing for a 28th amendment to severely limit the 2nd. It'll never ever happen, but he's doing it to virtue signal for votes with no regard to the effect it has on increasing polarization in this country.

Its absolutely not something just 'gun people' have done. If anything, people who support gun ownership actually believe in that right having value, while people like Newsome just believe in more government control, less rights for people, and don't actually care about guns.

[leroy jenkins]

My kid had a nightmare (but kind of funny - his words) about a school shooting last night.

Dreamt a teenager was shooting at kids in the school yard, but funny since his gun was too big so he couldn’t aim it and didn’t hit any kids.

Fuck anyone who’s making excuses for this shit our kids are having to deal with.

Yea thats really sad. I think unless your kid has actually experienced a school shooting, this is more of an effect of exposure to harmful and damaging media.

Probably your addiction to outrage porn.

[leroy jenkins]

I'll wait until I can send my kid to school without worrying he'll get shot to death, thanks.

The universe will never be a safe place. Its a nice goal to make it more safe but its absolulty delusional to expect it to be safe to the point you don't have to be mindful of danger.

Seems like we could hire some security guards but I get you guys balk at that for emotional reasons, you shouldn't HAVE TO protect your children. They should just be safe.

Regardless its an incredibly rare phenomenon. The vast majority of things classified as mass shootings are gang or drug related, not innocent school children.

Fentanyl is currently the number one killer of under 50 year olds, shall we talk about that? if you combine the stabbings, shootings, and OD deaths from the drug and gang epidemic as a single cause, which is really not a stretch, the drug and gang problem is by far the largest killer of virtually all age groups besides very young children and the elderly.

[HellgateBasement]

Seems like we could hire some security guards but I get you guys balk at that for emotional reasons, you shouldn't HAVE TO protect your children. They should just be safe.

Regardless its an incredibly rare phenomenon. The vast majority of things classified as mass shootings are gang or drug related, not innocent school children.

"Incredibly rare" is how I would describe school shootings in pretty much every other country on earth. I don't think "hiring some security guards" aka "armed private security or dedicated police for every public and private school in the country" is the best solution, but if it were I wouldn't have any opposition; emotional, financial, or otherwise.

[Cisco Kid]

40% of new gun sales are to gun owners to add to their arsenals
10% of new gun sales were to new gun owners
40% of new gun sales went to gangs and cartels
the other 10% of new gun sales were law enforcement.

[Peruvian]

Hey leroy and cisco - can you provide sources for your statement please?

[::: :::]

Yea thats something the liberal politicians do.

Identity politics is the only vote trigger known to the GOP politicians.
"THEY want to take your guns"
"City people don't understand rural people's needs."
"Christians are persecuted."
"White males are being persecuted."
"Our children shouldn't be made ashamed of (or aware of) history they are related to but didn't live through."
"THEY want illegal aliens to take your jobs"
"CRIMINALS" "RIOTERS" "ANTIFA"
"THEY want to REPLACE you"
"THEY aren't patriots like we are"

"[Americans] dislike interacting with people who don't share their political beliefs," Emma Green notes in The Atlantic, "and when they imagine the life they want for their children, they prize sameness, not difference."
Prizing sameness appears to be a uniquely conservative trait, according to the data: (mostly white) Republicans are more likely than Democrats to, among other things, worry about their child marrying someone from the LGBT community or a different ethnic or religious background; prefer Christian and Western European majorities in the United States; and see ethnocultural diversity as a weakness to America broadly.
Democrats, generally, were more likely to support a pluralistic society, with 54 percent in favor of religious diversity and 65 percent in support of racial and ethnic diversity. Indeed, the only identity category that Democrats rejected more for their child's potential spouse than Republicans did was, well, Republicans.
All of this data affirms the thesis of Ta-Nehisi Coates' 2017 essay on the first year of President Donald Trump's administration: that Trump's norm-shattering run has allowed "whiteness" as a unique and discrete ethnocultural identity to metastasize within the American body politic. And, more importantly, the survey confirms that it's white, conservative Americans who have embraced the visceral power of the identity politics they claim to despise.

[emphasis mine; quote ^^^according to research by the Public Religion Research Institute & The Atlantic: https://www.prri.org/research/americ...ivided-nation/]

"Yea thats something the liberal politicians do"

and, of course, that chestnut: "both sides are the same"

[Cisco Kid]

Hey leroy and cisco - can you provide sources for your statement please?

Wooley told me.

[mcski]

You know what we had for most of the 20th century? Gun control. Lots of it. Combined w people not being giant pussies that needed to carry just so they’d “feel” safe. The NRAs money and lobbyists, along w the activists that call themselves originalists on the court changed it

[gravitylover]

"Incredibly rare" is how I would describe school shootings in pretty much every other country on earth. I don't think "hiring some security guards" aka "armed private security or dedicated police for every public and private school in the country" is the best solution, but if it were I wouldn't have any opposition; emotional, financial, or otherwise.

Every public school in NY has a cop stationed there.

[mcski]

Every public school in NY has a cop stationed there.

I’m pretty sure that if it hasn’t happened already, that there will soon be a major school shooting at a school w a cop/ro on duty that either gets taken out or does nothing

[leroy jenkins]

You know what we for most of the 20th century? Gun control. Lots of it. Combined w people not being giant pussies that needed to carry to feel safe. The NRAs money and lobbyists, along w the activists that call themselves originalists on the court changed it

How did we have lots of gun control for the 20th century that had anything to do with preventing school shootings or correlation to them?

And the recent drastic decrease in violence despite absolutely no gun control getting passed in those years, and record gun sales?

[leroy jenkins]

Hey leroy and cisco - can you provide sources for your statement please?

I believe i've already supplied sources for all those stats previously in this thread, some of them in the article I linked a couple days ago.

Anything in specific?

[SumJongGuy]

Well no that sounds great.

but it clearly wasn't gun control. You know, the thing you guys are told and repeat that is the ONLY way violence is going to go down. The thing that is supposedly absolutely necessary because all else has and is failing.

And your sarcasm is kinda odd considering this has been my message for a long time in this thread. Even with huge uptick in new gun sales, as well as huge growth in the number of people that own guns, including the fastest growing segments being whole new demographics, specifically minorities and women, which have typically been very low percentage owners of firearms, violence goes down in accordance with unemployment and targeted policing of the very small segment of society that are professional criminals and responsible for the vast majority of gun crime and violent crime in general. Crazy how that works.

Seems almost like if one wanted to actually solve or improve these problems, there are more productive and less divisive ways to focus ones energy than against law abiding gun owners. But then there's the need to maintain the addiction to outrage dopamine.

Regardless, can't we all just breathe a sigh of relief and gratitude?

The upticks are in the things that guns do best... and that is kill people.. Definitely the result of more guns. The downticks in non murder crimes are verily likely more related to more people having more honest money . more jobs and better paying jobs.

[J. Barron DeJong]

I’m pretty sure that if it hasn’t happened already, that there will soon be a major school shooting at a school w a cop/ro on duty that either gets taken out or does nothing

Like this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/u...-peterson.html

[SumJongGuy]

^^^Uvalde says hold our beers, all 30+ of them..

[J. Barron DeJong]

^^^Uvalde says hold our beers, all 30+ of them..

Yeah, but they didn’t have an on-site school resource officer, right?

That’s the specific dumb idea we’re trying to tamp down here.

[nickwm21]

And the recent drastic decrease in violence despite absolutely no gun control getting passed in those years, and record gun sales?

So just ignore the last decade where the gun death rate increased YOY and only judge the most recent 5 months where (as stated in the article you linked) the incomplete and preliminary data is showing a 5-10% decrease in murder rate.


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[ex-powderbroker]

So just ignore the last decade where the gun death rate increased YOY and only judge the most recent 5 months where (as stated in the article you linked) the incomplete and preliminary data is showing a 5-10% decrease in murder rate.


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don’t judge - celebrate

[SumJongGuy]

Yeah, but they didn’t have an on-site school resource officer, right?

That’s the specific dumb idea we’re trying to tamp down here.

There was a cop there who missed (or chickened out) of an opportunity to confront the shooter before he got to the building.

Most of our schools have at least one. But most of our high school kids have their own/stolen guns so not sure they're needed.

[SumJongGuy]

So just ignore the last decade where the gun death rate increased YOY and only judge the most recent 5 months where (as stated in the article you linked) the incomplete and preliminary data is showing a 5-10% decrease in murder rate.


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Murder rate went curing COVID. Keeping people, armed people, locked up together 24/7 for 2 years tends to do that.. It went down when folks could again walk away when angry..

[Peruvian]

I believe i've already supplied sources for all those stats previously in this thread, some of them in the article I linked a couple days ago.

Anything in specific?

Fentanyl being the #1 killer of folks under 50 years old?

[J. Barron DeJong]

There was a cop there who missed (or chickened out) of an opportunity to confront the shooter before he got to the building.

Most of our schools have at least one. But most of our high school kids have their own/stolen guns so not sure they're needed.

The communication post Uvalde was a cluster, so this may have been changed again later, but:

“Editor’s Note: On Thursday, the Department of Public Safety clarified a Uvalde ISD officer was not on campus and was not the first member of law enforcement to confront the shooter.”

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/...ngage-shooter/

[sb]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MGUqSzrzoEw

[ex-powderbroker]

because right after we figure out a way to prevent people from going to walmart and then killing a bunch of kids with insane military weaponry and endless ammo we are totally coming for the hikers, yogis, and gym rats.

who snitched?