Americans are gonna close down schools before they take away guns.
A million deaths were not enough for NRA
Replace NRA with GOP.
The NRA is pretty weak at the moment. It seems that being infiltrated by a Russian honeypot is bad for business.
https://thereload.com/nra-financial-spiral-slows-as-reformers-cement-control/
It seems that being infiltrated by a Russian honeypot is bad for business.
Seems to be working out fine so far for the GOP
Still baffles me how seemingly the same population went from hating Russia and commies to siding with them no matter what…
It’s not confusing at all once you realize that republicans have no principles and will do whatever their strongman/Daddy says, especially when there’s money involved.
Just look at the number of them who promptly did a 180 on their beliefs once trump won in 2016. Who can forget Raphael having his wife insulted constantly by and attacked trump himself, only to end up a lap dog for Trump with no real pushback
That snake is eating its tail, they don’t survive that.
If the children had assault rifles on them at all times, they could have defended themselves. Assault rifles, pump guns and other long weapons are perfect for children, since they cannot point it at themselves and pull the trigger at the same time. Also to further enhance the safety of your child, just be sure to give them soft point ammo, since it would shatter on impact with any harder wall and avoid ricochet.
Edit: God save President Trump and watch over all of your children.
Even better, only give the children crew-serviced weapons. Then no 1 kid can do a mass shooting without teamwork. If the kids see some lone kid in a trench coat trying to lug an M2 toward the school they will have plenty of time to take up positions to ambush them. 1 student can’t lift a 155mm shell, but 3 working together can send one every 15 seconds.
You had me until trump watching over my children. Please no.
And there is nothing that can be done to stop this, absolutely nothing. I mean, we tried nothing, absolutely NOTHING! and after all that nothing, nothing changed, why can’t these stupid lefties get that in their heads?
Actually, they are a little tight, there are some small things we can do. Police can wait outside longer, that way we don’t place our cowardly service men to too much danger, can’t have them be all stressed out now… We also got bullet proof blankets, active shooter drills and bullet proof backpacks!
These entitled children have nothing to be whining about
they tried a few things. they made everyone use (see-through) concert bags instead of backpacks in one local district, and at another they put in metal detectors at all the schools. at the district where they did the concert bags, both of the shootings perpetrated by children in that town since then happened off-campus
yeah but now we need guns to protect against the fascists who always said they needed guns to protect against tyranny…
I hate it here.
Then maybe someone isn’t sacroficing to moloch hard enough?
When I saw this, I though: what an old joke.
But no. It’s not.
Unlike some of the school children, that joke will get old eventually.
Gallows humor is all I have left…
If they deported all the children, they wouldn’t be at the school and get shot.
Don’t give them ideas
They wouldn’t do that. How would we appease moloch?
I want to sarcastically comment “where were the armed drones to protect the children???” after that article yesterday, but I worry people will ignore the sarcasm and think it’s a good idea…
I wanted to make a dark comment about how the school says “gate to heaven” on it and yeah, I think we’re in similar boats.
See, I didn’t even notice that. Now it’s way too late to make a joke about guns and flavoraid.
No, thats not in the production environment yet (Texas), its still in testing (florida)
Its because of violent video games.
Dance dance revolution was the slippery slope
https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/10/17101232/a-brief-history-of-video-game-violence-blame/
I blame Macarena.
Brutal
A sadly incorrect meme format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_Europe
Sure but for USA there is a page per year on Wikipedia. Whataboutism about Europe will not resolve that situation? Aren’t you getting stats for Uruguay? Vietnam? Dubai? Will that help To resolve the problem?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2025
How does the meme, or pretending it’s unique to the US, help to resolve the problem?
The scale and frequency is unique to the US.
And it’s wild because the proof is in the wiki article you linked. Since 2000 there have been a total of 85 school shootings in all of Europe. The US (A single country) has had 630.
The problem is obviously significantly worse in the US.
I’ll add to this that Europe has about 1.6 times the population of the US. This means that Europe has roughly one school shooting for every 12 incidents in the US when corrected for population.
If Europe had school shootings at a rate similar to the US, there would have been on average 40 incidents per year. That is: about one school shooting every week of school since year 2000. I can’t even imagine going to school knowing that and wondering if my school is the one that’s going to be shot up this week.
Y’all almost seem proud of it, to the point that acknowledging other places can have the same problem, is anger inducing?
It is unique to the US. Other places have 2 or more orders of magnitude fewer shootings.
And knowing this does help you figure out how to solve the problem.
Cos it is always happening in USA and the response is always T&P So saying it not a problem because you show some events across multiple centuries on one Wikipedia page for one continent doesn’t change the issue that the USA is facing on a daily basis. The meme is just a daily reminder.
Hi, what is “T&P”?
Oh, of course. Thanks.
Thoughts and prayers
Ah, yes.
It’s unique to the US because we aren’t trying to mitigate.
I notice. Even on this forum many people seem to go “This is OUR problem! You euro’s have no idea what you’re talking about and we shouldn’t work together on resolving it” 😕
Uh, no. It’s nowhere near the same level of problem in other countries as it is here. Trying to “what about Europe” as a gotcha isn’t trying to solve the issue, it’s diminishing the reality that the USA has a fundamentally flawed issue around gun rights and fun control, and we pay for that problem with too many dead kids.
Trying to “what about Europe” as a gotcha
That’s … not what I was doing? Why read it in the worst way possible?
I’m saying: it’s untrue that everywhere else in the world is happy school time, that the problem is unique to the US.
People are people. If you want to understand the factors that drive a person to hurt their classmates, it’s even more useful to consider the whole of contexts in which that happens, instead of wrongly pretending it doesn’t happen in the rest of the world.
None? This is Lemmy, not parliament or whatever US call that thing.
How does pretending this epidemic ISN’T unique to the US solve the problem?
Name any other country that has anywhere near the amount of shootings we have in a year. Fuck, name one that has a quarter or a tenth of what we have year after year.
Don’t let your misplaced pride in the US blind you to a very unique problem that we have.
Anywhere else in the world has an incident where children get murdered in school and they do something. Largely, what they do serves to make children safer.
In America you do literally nothing
So it’s bad when it happens to European and American kids, but totally fine when it happens to Palestinian kids, right?
And the south sudanese! You don’t seem to care about them, don’t you?! 😲
