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Dan MorenIt is, simply put, insane that we are at a place in this country where I just cannot remember all the mass shootings. What? These should be so rare that they are all emblazoned in our memory. But now they blur together in a horrific haze.
Paul McGrane@dmoren yeah it's kind of like two a week. Grotesque.
Dan@pmcg @dmoren I hate to burst your bubble but it's been more than one a *day*, on average https://abcnews.go.com/US/mass-shootings-days-2023-database-shows/story?id=96609874
Ash Doyle@dmoren And then to pile on the insanity, the people in power don’t care enough to do anything about it and not enough of the citizenship cares enough to make them do anything about it.
JR Holmes@dmoren And previously we could easily describe a notable mass shooting with a simple reference like "Columbine", but with the ongoing wave, that has become impossible. Worse, we are developing a new scale for mass shootings. What was previously notable (4 or more) has now ascended to a shuddering 20+.
Matt Cooney@dmoren not only that but I’m sure there are more that I don’t even learn of until days or weeks later.
Jeff@dmoren @caseyliss One of my friends’ family was going to walk to the parade in Highland Park, IL but stayed home because they had Covid. I’m glad my longtime friend and wife & kids are all alive & well. I’ll remember that shooting’s name because of that. It’s crazy how quickly this has spiraled out of control. I’m really worried this is only the beginning. It can always get worse.
@dmoren when someone says "did you hear about the mass shooting in the US?" - even if they name the *state*, it's usually necessary to ask for further specificity.
That is just insane to me.
And nothing is done.
Well, that's not quite true. Things are done, things which often *increase* the shootings.
Roger Escobar@dmoren It is absolutely astounding that it has become the norm in your country. I’d never be able to send my kids to school there. Thank goodness for Australia. It took one mass shooting incident for the govt pass gun control legislation. I suppose we love our children more than guns. Sad.
Casper 👻@dmoren We don’t remember ours either because they are so rare 🇨🇦.
Big changes are needed on your side of the border. 🤞
Big changes are needed on your side of the border. 🤞
Brian Grinter@dmoren @caseyliss come to Australia - just like home without the guns
Last mass shooting was 1996.
Casey Liss
Scott@dmoren I’m originally from the UK. We had one school shooting in 1996, and after that the public asked for extra-strong gun ownership laws. Which we got. We’ve not had one since, and that’s how we like it.
Craig Grannell@scottearle @dmoren TBF, we _have_ had mass shootings since, but none in a school, and with far, far less frequency (taking into account population sizes) compared to the USA.
Pratik Patel@dmoren That's the whole point of the game. They want you to forget.
Christopher Phin@dmoren (This is a post expressing solidarity with your bafflement, not a ‘we’re better than you,’ but:) that’s Scotland. Dunblane happened, and that was the inflection point. Not saying we haven’t had trouble with guns since, but yes; the rational response is “fuck no”.
@chrisphin You would have thought we had one at least twenty years ago, but it turns out building our country on a document that includes the right to bear arms was a colossal mistake.
@dmoren As I’ve gotten older I have certainly appreciated some of the nuance in the second amendment, but I sometimes worry that this is a bad thing, that it complicates the “fuck no, guns are bad” perspective. Because those nuances, by and large, are not deployed in good faith.
@chrisphin 250-year-old nuance may have been lost along the way. Honestly, it's not worth it. If I could trade it for even a fraction of the lives lost, it'd be a no brainer.
Peter Cohen@chrisphin @dmoren Bad faith arguments propelled the NRA from a conservation-focused hunters club to the public face of the gun industry. Gun violence has always been a part of American life, but the Originalist nonsense around 2A belies the fact that it only got insane within the span of our lifetimes as a result of that pivot.
Kevin Hoctor@KevinHoctor @chrisphin @dmoren Clinton signed the Assault Weapons Ban in 94 and it helped, at least in the case of mass shootings. But that sunset in 04 and the statistics speak for themselves.
coolbugfacts123@KevinHoctor @flargh @chrisphin @dmoren
Reagan passed some of the first gun control bills, to disarm the Black Panthers.
@rhinoceraptor @KevinHoctor @chrisphin @dmoren Yeah, back when he was Gov. Reagan. Gun control laws the NRA supported. Gee, I wonder why? 🧐
@dmoren @chrisphin The law of unintended consequences supercedes the Constitution.
Artemis@dmoren
I don't know when the last time I cried over a mass shooting was.
I remember feeling emotional devastation over each one. Reading victims names and crying for their families and friends.
I am numb now.
I can awaken my grief and my outrage, but it is no longer an instantaneous reaction. Because becoming numb is the only way to keep going and not be paralyzed by the horror.
Neil Bruder