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Fourth of July overshadowed by 16 mass shootings across US (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just absolutely mind boggling how frequently this happens and literally nothing is being done about it. What a sick country.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They ARE doing something about it.

Financing the whole thing!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Which is, sadly, working very well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"They ARE doing something about it. Financing the whole thing!".

No they are not. You seem also out of control, buddy.

It's all a mix of the second ammendment, their interpretation & execution of that law, a dominant military and guns lobby system (Billionaire$); people loving their guns, no access to good (mental) health care, which allthogether is holding their country hostage, imho.

So yeah, its all out of control. And nothing has changed, except that it's getting worse.

add.(mental) healthcare

[+] [email protected] -13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Part 1:

No they are not

Part 2:

It’s all a mix of the second ammendment, their interpretation & execution of that law, a dominant military and guns lobby system (Billionaire$); people loving their guns, no access to good (mental) health care, which allthogether is holding their country hostage, imho.

LOL

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

He is not that wrong, after all switzerland to have guns and they control it with ease. They even celebrate a gun festival. where children practice shooting.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

New York has more people than Switzerland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am not saying there swiss policies will fix USA, but why not tust try! They are not even trying to fix this shitness.

New york have more people than Switzerland. but they also have 3x the money too!!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's why we use per capita for statistics like this. It doesn't matter who has more people if you adjust for population. Now, you could argue density is the problem, but in less dense places in the US the rate is even higher, so...

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago

Great idea. Let's make the USA a small homogeneous group and see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

And somehow some people are going to use this as reasoning that they need more guns to defend themselves.