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‘It’s the guns’: violent week in a deadly year prompts familiar US responses

The trouble is that Americans talk about mass shootings the way other societies talk about rape: as somehow inevitable, like the weather. “A woman was raped” (note lack of reference to the man who raped her). “Some people were killed by gun violence” (note lack of reference to the shooter).

#itsTheFuckingGuns #StopGuns #GunControlNow — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/23/us-gun-violence-mass-shootings-2022-walmart-virginia-colorado?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

‘It’s the guns’: violent week in a deadly year prompts familiar US responses

Thanksgiving week has seen 22 people killed and 44 injured by guns, as 2022 is shaping up to be one of the worst years in recent memory

The Guardian

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Yvonne Aburrow 🌻Jan 9, 2023

@vogelbeere People also fail to note that there are too many guns in Canada (31 guns per 100 people) because compared to America (120 guns per 100 people) it is nowhere near as bad. But Canada shouldn’t compare itself to the USA, it should compare itself to the UK (4 guns per 100 people). Just look at the lists of masa shootings in Canada and the UK compared to the USA. Much much shorter lists for Canada and the UK.

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Yvonne Aburrow 🌻Jan 9, 2023

* mass, not "masa"

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kalizoid313 Jan 9, 2023

@vogelbeere

Speaking as one American, at my workplace--which holds shooter drills--and where a mass shooting occurred in the neighboring grocery store--we talk about it among ourselves as close quarters infantry combat for civilians.

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Yvonne Aburrow 🌻Jan 9, 2023

@kalizoid313 Wow, terrifying and you should not have to live like that.