• prole
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    11 months ago

    You know what would be a pretty interesting way to look at this would be?

    Lets take every modern nation in the world (we can bicker about what “modern” means later), and lets create a database similar to the one you’re taking issue with for each of those nations.

    We can be just as uncharitable (or is it charitable?) in our definition of “mass shooting”… The exact issue you’re having here right? You think that these statistics unfairly show the US in a negative light.

    Well how about we take a look, by that same criteria, how many “mass shootings” these other nations have. Hell, we can even do it per-capita.

    How do you think that would look?

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      11 months ago

      I really don’t care what other countries are or are not doing, the fact of the matter is other countries a) don’t have a 2nd amendment and b) have universal health care, it’s not an apples to apples comparison.

      What I’m saying is, within the United States alone, there are organizations with a vested interest in making people afraid that they’re going to get shot when the actual risk is extremely low.

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        11 months ago

        The second amendment isn’t some magic incantation, Jesus Christ.

        Brain rotted.

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          11 months ago

          No, it’s the law of the land in the United States, you’re free to not like that fact, but it doesn’t change it.

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            11 months ago

            The Constitution has always meant to be a living document.

            It should evolve as reality changes for us, but people in this country are too brain-rotted and ammosexual to fix it. Wonder how that happened…