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Molly Wood Apr 29, 2023

Guy kills five neighbors including a child because they ask him to stop scaring the kids with his machine gun. My brother is at Safeway yesterday and a guy pulled a gun on another guy inside the store because of a parking lot beef. Like. This is terrorism. I am terrified. No one wants to live like this!!!!

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British Tech Guru Apr 29, 2023

@mollywoodpro

1. It was not a machine gun.
2. You don't know the reason for the shootout. It could have been drug related. Same for the Safeway thing - you don't know the reason. Could have been drug related.

If you quit sounding so dramatic and started a reasonable debate about how to improve people's mental health and how to reduce the unfairness and disparity in America then you'd look far more reasonable and would get a constructive debate started.

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E. Chang Apr 29, 2023

@britishtechguru @mollywoodpro We do know the cause of the shooting. The neighbors asked the shooter to please not shoot his weapons while their newborn was sleeping. His response was to go try to kill everyone in the house. 1 child is dead, and the two mothers who were in the residence died protecting three toddlers and infants.

Because they asked him to please not wake their babies. Babies, which conservatives are supposed to want to protect? I guess not.

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British Tech Guru Apr 29, 2023

@knottedthreads @mollywoodpro No. That's a symptom, not the cause. Don't get causes and symptoms confused. Too many people can't tell the difference.

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E. Chang Apr 29, 2023

@britishtechguru @mollywoodpro You're quibbling over semantics while 5 people are dead. The shooter was asked not to wake an infant. His response was to slaughter the household of the people who made the request. This isn't a "symptom," like a stuffy nose.

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British Tech Guru

@knottedthreads @mollywoodpro That IS a symptom. He was shooting in his backyard. We have no way of knowing the manner of the "asking". An arrogant demand of threat could have been made. But you are missing the point that nobody will normally go from neighbor to neighbor killer unless there is something that went on before. THAT is your cause. The rest is NOT a cause.