stux⚡️Aug 21, 2023

For those who believe todays music, video games & movies are causing mass shootings:

You are WRONG.

If this was the case it would happen all over the world. Here in Europe we listen to the same music, play the same games & enjoy the same movies but we do not have daily mass shootings because we don’t have the GUNS.

GUNS are WRONG

Show threadAndre

@stux Obviously there's a pretty clear correlation between gun availability and shootings, but I think this blind assumption that reducing gun availability suddenly erases murderous intent is just silly.

The US has had a gun culture forever. There hasn't been an increase in the availability of firearms in the US but the crimes are increasing.

Blaming the mechanism instead of the cause gets nowhere closer to fixing any of it. When the desire to murder is so strong removing the mechanism is just going to select for another one.

Trading shootings for cafeteria poisonings or pipe bombs isn't a big improvement.

(Blaming music, video games and movies is just plain stupid though.)

Aug 21, 2023 at 1:28pmWeb
Show threadHighlandLawyerAug 21, 2023
@PCOWandre @stux Compare the US gun culture from pre 2008 with post Heller & then MacDonald v Chicago (2010) though. The C21st US Supreme Court view of the 2nd Amendment flatly contradicts its C19th & C20th position, and has increased both the number & power of privately held firearms (eg especially since termination of the assault weapon ban in 2004)