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According to the Gun Violence Archive, 21,782 Americans have been killed in shootings halfway through 2023.
I know that's not 100% mass shootings, but that's still a stunningly bleak number. Rounding up from the .97 that's five human lives every hour of 2023 up to July.
That's the price we pay for freedom.
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Obviously nothing can be done to change this. There is zero things the government can do to stop gun violence. It must just be an inherent part of life
That Philly shooting - you know it was a white shooter cause the police didn't discharge a single shot.
keep talking and not doing anything i love it and ive loved every other time a shooting occurs and this same shit happens
Americans keep voting for Republicans. They want the death.
~~Americans~~ pro-gun voters keep voting for Republicans. They want the death.
The problem is pro-gun people just happen to be overwhelmingly Republican.
I used to be "sensibly" pro gun. As in, "it's important to give people that right, but with proper controls in place."
Increasingly, I want our country to have nothing to do with guns. The actual sensible position is very strict gun control. There's very little reason a person should own any firearm outside of a hunting rifle in extremely controlled circumstances with extensive checks and records.
The US has 120 guns per 100 people, the highest in the world. The next highest? Yemen at ~53.
The onion said it best (every time there's a new mass shooting), "No way to prevent this, says only nation where this regularly happens." We can't lie to ourselves that it's not the lack of gun control that allows all of these shootings.
How many times has this exact headline been published in the last X years
heartbreakingly... a lot - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens
As opposed to all the other shootings, which made good sense and improved general happiness for all affected.